Biden's Problem Isn't Age—It's Biden | Opinion; Newt Gingrich
The truth is, as a candidate, U.S. senator, vice president, and president, Biden has always had a loose relationship with reality—and a stunning willingness to just make things up.
. . ."Those who argue that President Joe Biden is too old to run for reelection are wrong. He's not too old—he's too Joe Biden.
"His age isn't the problem. His competence is." . . .
"Paul McCartney is staying busy and traveling around the world at 81 as one of the wealthiest musicians in the world (estimated to be worth more than $1 billion).
"Dame Judi Dench continues to make several movies a year at 88.
"Chuck Grassley, who will be 90 in less than two weeks, was reelected to his eighth term in the U.S. Senate. He was first elected in 1980. He is now the longest-serving Republican senator in history and is aggressive in digging out the facts about corruption in the Biden administration and continuing his work with whistleblowers.
"Grandma Moses (Anna Mary Robertson Moses) took up painting at 78 and became a world-famous painter who created more than 1,500 paintings. She passed away at 101.
"The point of this long list of continuing achievers is that age is not the problem for them. Some people age well and remain major contributors to their art or profession. Others age badly and become less effective long before many of their contemporaries. " . . .
"The truth is, as a candidate, U.S. senator, vice president, and president, Biden has always had a loose relationship with reality—and a stunning willingness to just make things up.
"His recent story about his house almost burning down is a lie he has told on at least eight occasions over the years. It simply is not true, and that simply does not matter to Biden.
"President Biden telling the parents of those who were killed during his administration's disastrous Afghanistan evacuation that his son Beau had died while serving in Iraq is another example of his unending—and, indeed, mystifying—willingness to make things up. (Beau died from cancer in Maryland.)
"Biden's lack of accurate memory may have gotten a little worse—but there has always been a big gap between the truth and his recollections.
"Importantly, the president's cognitive decline is clear and painful. To have the leader of the most powerful nation in the world wander around a stage because he does not know where he is supposed to go—or what he is supposed to do—is just plain frightening. His slipping mind compounds with his lifetime of yarn-spinning and it makes both seem worse.
"Just remember the next time this comes up: it isn't about Biden's age, it's about Biden."
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