What's the likely age cutoff for VPs in 2008?

[gorkay]

I don't know that there would be a definite age cutoff, but the people you mention are, to put it unkindly, has-beens. Their best political days are behind them. Traditionally (though not always) the VP nominee is kind of an up-and-comer.

[gorkay]

Like Lloyd Bentsen, Jack Kemp, and Dick Cheney? 

I said "not always." And those three didn't work out too well, did they?

[gorkay]

Well, Bush still ended up in the White House with Cheney on the ticket, so it wasn't that bad from his perspective.  Anyway, that's 3 out of the last 7 major party VP nominees right there (including both of the last 2 Republican VP choices), so it's hard to say that has-beens really face *that* much of a disadvantage in being selected.

I'll give you that... although we all know the circumstances under which Bush and Cheney wound up in the White House.