and there you have it......Chuck Grassley, 88, Is for sure running FOR HIS 8th TERM 😳 🤮 😳

[a kennedy]

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley filed nomination papers Friday with the Iowa secretary of state's office, officially beginning the process of seeking an eighth term representing Iowa.

Grassley, 88, announced his intentions in September to seek another six-year term. If completed, he would be 94.

Grassley, who has held the seat for 41 years, is the longest-serving Republican U.S. senator.

His campaign office said in an email that he delivered nearly 10,000 signatures from voters from all of Iowa's 99 counties to qualify him to appear on the Republican ballot for the June primary.

https://lacrossetribune.com/news/state-and-regional/ia/grassley-files-nomination-papers-to-seek-8th-us-senate-term/article_24aab09a-8f4a-52ca-ab47-8db849fe7bfe.html

[secondwind]

1. He must not have a real life outside the halls of Congress..

How SAD is that??!!?

[maxsolomon]

2. He intends to die in office.

Egoist.

[smirkymonkey]

4. Good.

Any day now would be fine.

[maxsolomon]

5. It might be advantageous to run against an 88 year old?

If there were any Dems with a shot left in Iowa.

God forbid you mention his age in the campaign, though. That would be AGEISM.

[phylny]

8. There are lots of ways you can do it without mentioning age.

Vigor, drive, stamina, energetic, dynamic....

[smirkymonkey]

9. Or REALISM.

Seriously, I mean how many people live that long, and without some form of dementia or compromised physical and mental health. I agree with you about the advantage it might give us though. I think his decision to even run points to a mind that is declining.

It's like people who don't want to discuss letting senior citizens drive after a certain age even after it's been proven that they are a danger to others on the road because - AGEISM. Sometimes, you just need to accept the truth.

[Polybius]

23. We learned our lesson in 1996 with Bob Dole

While it was clearly wrong against the 73 year old Dole, we didn't do it even against 94 year old Strom Thurmond!

[Mz Pip]

14. Works for me.

Sooner rather than later.

[LiberalFighter]

16. Only way to continue receiving 100% of salary.

Otherwise, if my calculations are correct if he died now he would only receive $105.705 a year. Or 60.75% of his current salary.

[maxsolomon]

17. Come on. I doubt income is his motivation now.

He's still there because he thinks it's his right.

We've seen this act before - Strom Thurmond (although he left before his death).

[LiberalFighter]

19. He gets more side income while still a Senator? I think so.

That all goes away when he retires.

[maxsolomon]

21. He stays in the Senate at 88

because he needs the cash from his "side hustle"? When he gets a pension until he dies, and has collected a Senate salary for 40 years?

OK.

[LiberalFighter]

24. You do understand that some people are about the money?

Even if they don't need it.

[lame54]

3. The Crazy Eights

[DavidDvorkin]

6. Surely Republicans will immediately attack him and say he's senile

Or not. Surely not. Only Democrats get attacked for being old.

[lagomorph777]

7. At this point it ought to be so easy to knock him out that you would call it

"elder abuse."

[TheBlackAdder]

10. Figures Mr. Death Panel keeps railing on and on about socialism, as he's plugged in long-term.

[Budi]

13. He's lived well off the public dime. Imagine the Senate retirement fund he's built by now

...also on the public dime. And thats only a 8 year stretch. Some haven't done a damned thing in 30 yrs when you check their legislative record.

Pissy point here is, His Ugly Useless Record of all those 8 years.

[Budi]

11. Wasn't it Strom Thurmond who practically had to be wheeled in the chamber on a gurney?

Its not the age but the value they bring.
And neither of them did squat besides oppose the progress of the Democratic Party.

Yet their states keep reelecting them.

[2naSalit]

12. Hope he's...

Not around for the election.

[oasis]

15. Worthless scum bucket.

[gldstwmn]

18. He makes a good case for term limits.

[Tree Lady]

20. Well unfortunately for us he still runs and does push ups

The article I read said and didn't get sick when he was positive for covid. He must eat healthy.

So we are probably stuck with him.

[spanone]

22. Go home chuckles. We're soooo tired of you.