# Mitch McConnell and Medical Issues **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [July 26, 2023, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mitch-mcconnell-and-medical-issues/987661 "2023-07-26T19:02:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![superwombat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superwombat/32/16616_2.png) [@superwombat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/superwombat)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2023, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mitch-mcconnell-and-medical-issues/987661/61 "2023-07-27T03:09:38Z")
The way his eyes just… went straight to nothing but a dial tone behind them. Brr. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2023, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mitch-mcconnell-and-medical-issues/987661/62 "2023-07-27T04:07:16Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > This would be so full of crunchy turtley goodness. It would have an ashy aftertaste, though. He got his supreme court justice, and then some. 😢 ---
**Author:** ![DWMarch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dwmarch/32/1010_2.png) [@DWMarch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DWMarch)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2023, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mitch-mcconnell-and-medical-issues/987661/63 "2023-07-27T04:21:53Z")
> [@China\_Guy](#): > > Man, that was tough to watch, and I find Mitch _deeply offensive_ on so many levels. Same here. And I’m no doctor either but the man clearly is not well. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2023, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mitch-mcconnell-and-medical-issues/987661/64 "2023-07-27T04:30:50Z")
> [@superwombat](#): > > The way his eyes just… went straight to nothing but a dial tone behind them. Brr. Thank you. I’ve been trying to describe what I saw on the TV news, and you summed it up well. “Nothing but a dial tone behind them” is perfect. ---
**Author:** ![Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kolak_of_twilo/32/73_2.png) [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolak_of_Twilo)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2023, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mitch-mcconnell-and-medical-issues/987661/65 "2023-07-27T04:38:29Z")
I can barely tolerate listening to the man but damn, that was painful to watch. His brain just went on a walk around the block. If you look at it a second time check the two guys (Senators?) behind him on each side. It takes a couple of seconds but they eventually start looking like they are thinking “Oh shit, is he going to keel over right here!?!” ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2023, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mitch-mcconnell-and-medical-issues/987661/66 "2023-07-27T04:48:21Z")
I’m betting TIA. He acted just like my mom did when she’d have one. ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_was\_in\_Saudi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b77776/32.png) [@Paul\_was\_in\_Saudi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_was_in_Saudi)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2023, 9:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mitch-mcconnell-and-medical-issues/987661/67 "2023-07-27T09:45:50Z")
What he said; > [@DavidNRockies](#): > > I have absolutely no love for McConnell, but today’s … TIA … seizure … whatever it was … was painful to watch. > > I hope he’s okay, and that he takes this opportunity to go out to pasture. ---
**Author:** ![Whack-a-Mole](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whack-a-mole/32/141_2.png) [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2023, 10:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mitch-mcconnell-and-medical-issues/987661/68 "2023-07-27T10:24:06Z")
Maybe more to it: Full title and sub-head: **Mitch McConnell fell recently at a D.C. airport, before his news conference freeze-up – The Senate Republican leader, 81, has also been using a wheelchair to navigate crowded airports, said a source familiar with his practices.** > **[McConnell fell recently at Washington, D.C., airport prior to Wednesday’s...](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/mcconnell-fell-recently-dc-airport-prior-wednesdays-freeze-rcna96568)** > > The Senate Republican leader, 81, has also been using a wheelchair to navigate crowded airports, said a source familiar with his practices. ---
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2023, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mitch-mcconnell-and-medical-issues/987661/69 "2023-07-27T11:49:18Z")
> [@China\_Guy](#): > > Man, that was tough to watch, and I find Mitch _deeply offensive_ on so many levels. Just have to express a different opinion. McConnell is one of VERY FEW people I truly wish ill upon. I personally enjoyed seeing his freeze-up, and only hope it is a harbinger of worse to come for him. He deserves far worse. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2023, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mitch-mcconnell-and-medical-issues/987661/70 "2023-07-27T11:56:28Z")
> [@Whack-a-Mole](#): > > The Senate Republican leader, 81, has also been using a wheelchair to navigate crowded airports, said a source familiar with his practices. That seems unremarkable for an 81 year old with lingering problems from polio. My mom started using a wheelchair at airports well before she needed one for anything else. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2023, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mitch-mcconnell-and-medical-issues/987661/71 "2023-07-27T12:07:25Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > Trump is not going to debate anyone, at any time. Not gonna happen. I don’t know, do they have debates before voting on the Head Inmate On Cellblock C? Mitch certainly looked like he has aged quite a bit lately. Looks like Father Time has caught up to him. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2023, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mitch-mcconnell-and-medical-issues/987661/72 "2023-07-27T12:46:07Z")
Sometimes it’s just gas. ---
**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2023, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mitch-mcconnell-and-medical-issues/987661/73 "2023-07-27T13:16:02Z")
falls are serious stuff when you are over 70. this episode looked like, to put in into computer terms, a bit of a crash. it could be as simple as dehydration (that hits people his age really hard), and as complex as brain issues. for sure what ever happened, it will be down played. as for what could happen in ky senate wise, remember rand paul is the junior senator… ---
**Author:** ![Akaj](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/akaj/32/145_2.png) [@Akaj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Akaj)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2023, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mitch-mcconnell-and-medical-issues/987661/74 "2023-07-27T13:22:41Z")
Next time some MAGAt says Biden is too old and senile for the job, show them this clip. ---
**Author:** ![flurb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/51bf81/32.png) [@flurb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flurb)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2023, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mitch-mcconnell-and-medical-issues/987661/75 "2023-07-27T13:35:02Z")
> [@rocking\_chair](#): > > as for what could happen in ky senate wise, remember rand paul is the junior senator… I’d imagine that which three names end up on that list would become a war within the Kentucy Republican Party. And Bashear may just be incented to pick the craziest of the three, if he has ambitions to run for Senate himself. . . > [@Chronos](#): > > If nothing else, though, I’d expect that the governor could drag out the process for naming a replacement. Kentucky law requires the Governor to name the replacement within 21 days of receiving the list of three candidates from the party’s executive committee. ---
**Author:** ![Frodo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frodo/32/302_2.png) [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2023, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mitch-mcconnell-and-medical-issues/987661/76 "2023-07-27T13:56:35Z")
But what if he… didn’t? (I imagine there are provisions in the law for governors draggin their feet pass those 21 days, but it’s fun to imagine…) ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2023, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mitch-mcconnell-and-medical-issues/987661/77 "2023-07-27T14:03:08Z")
> [@Whack-a-Mole](#): > > I am hard pressed to think of a single politician who has done more harm to the US than Mitch McConnell (maybe Newt Gingrich). I very much look forward to him getting out of congress. Some of us would start with Donald Trump. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2023, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mitch-mcconnell-and-medical-issues/987661/78 "2023-07-27T14:04:10Z")
Beau speaks up. > **[Let's talk about Mitch McConnell and the future....](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yzj85qz5M8%2F)** > > Support via Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/beautfcThe Roads with Beau: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC\_x7nc3Vi4BPgmNnMsz774ACheck out the store. Sticker... ---
**Author:** ![Whack-a-Mole](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whack-a-mole/32/141_2.png) [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2023, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mitch-mcconnell-and-medical-issues/987661/79 "2023-07-27T14:29:33Z")
McConnell was/is much more damaging. Trump is awful but a buffoon. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2023, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mitch-mcconnell-and-medical-issues/987661/80 "2023-07-27T14:35:10Z")
> [@Akaj](#): > > Next time some MAGAt says Biden is too old and senile for the job, show them this clip. I think this clip is an illustration of why Biden (and Trump, and Mitch, and Feinstein) are too old. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mitch-mcconnell-and-medical-issues/987661.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mitch-mcconnell-and-medical-issues/987661.md?page=5)