In the America I see the permanent politician will finally retire.

We'll have term limits for Congress.

In mandatory mental competency tests for politicians over 75 years old.

When Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley said this during her campaign kickoff,

it seemed she was referring to one particular senior citizen slash politician

whose job she hopes to take.

President Joe Biden, he's 80.

But she could have been referring to the other announced candidate in the race.

Former President Trump, he's 76.

But they are by no means the only people over the age of 75 serving in high office in the US.

Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell is 81 as is Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders.

Long serving Iowa Republican Senator Chuck Grassley is 89.

And the oldest sitting member of Congress by a few months, the California Democrat Senator Diane Feinstein, is also 89.

In Feinstein's case, whispers about her ability to keep doing her job were getting ever louder.

And she just announced she would not run for re-election when her term ends in January of 2025.

Haley isn't the first to raise questions about whether certain leaders should face tests for cognitive fitness.

She's just the latest.

But those questions are usually dismissed as a political ploy, even when the politician is raising those questions himself.

So the last time I was at the hospital, or probably a year ago, a little less than a year ago, I asked the doctor,

I said, is there some kind of a cognitive test that I could take because I've been hearing about it?

Because I want to shut these people up.

In a 2020 interview, then President Trump described asing in his words, a cognitive test he says he requested during his annual checkup.

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