Harry Truman?
No fair channeling David Broder! 
No love yet for Howard Dean? A genuine liberal, smart and articulate. What’s not to love?
I like Bill Richardson, but I have heard that he has zipper issues. No need to take a chance on bimbo eruptions during a campaign.
How about Fred Thompson? He could get the US to take out a reverse mortgage and pay our bills that way.
I’ll add my name to the Al Gore group. I can’t believe he’s only 66 - that means he was a mere 44 when he became Veep.
Here’s my take on the age issue for Presidential candidates: as long as they look like they’re in good shape now, I wouldn’t worry about it unless they’d be >80 by the end of their second* term. After 80, not only does dementia get to be a more frequent problem, but health starts being a crapshoot in lots of other ways.
*Why second term? Because on the whole, we’ve got a rather strong predisposition for re-electing Presidents. We re-elected Reagan by a huge margin in 1984, even after that imaginary drive down the Pacific Coast Highway in his first debate with Mondale should have been a big hint. (ETA:**) So while we technically elect a President for four years, chances are good that we’re electing a President for eight years.
Palin & Bachmann. Come for the laughs, stay for… more laughs.
Ah yes, the Bachmann-Palin Underdrive.
He may be old, but he’s spry. Why, I saw him flip kick a mugger off a pier just last weekend!
Howard Dean
I’m not surprised you think this, since Republicans would never win again if all young people voted. We don’t like politicians who don’t understand the internet.
Spry old Moonbeam, you know he’s doing alright… 
Bill Bradley. Smart policy wonk and I still agree with his positions on gun control reform, healthcare, campaign finance reform and income tax reform.
He just picked a particularly bad time to try - he may have had more success when first approached in '88 (against Al Gore in 2000 democratic primaries and we all know how that ended anyway).
Sadly at this point he’s probably also in the “too old” lane and doesn’t seem really interested in re-entering politics anyway.
rogerbox, I thought it was obvious that adaher meant age of the candidate, not age of the electorate. There’s no reason young voters can’t vote for an old candidate, or vice-versa.
This time around the Republican is likely to be a young guy, the Democrat a senior citizen. So I guess you’re voting Republican?
Two things… what young guy is likely? Secondly, do you really think people vote for the candidate closer to their age?
No, I do not think age is much of a factor. I think it’s an attack angle for opportunistic critics, but little more than that.
As long as we’re dealing with candidates under 80 who don’t seem positively decrepit I just don’t see it as an effective issue. Bob Dole lost because he was running against a very popular incumbent. John McCain lost because he was running to succeed a very unpopular incumbent. And Ronald Reagan won. I’ve never seen the age issue actually be effective in a campaign.
That’s not to say it can never be an issue, but whenever it’s been brought up it’s usually been handled adequately. And because it’s one of those issues that all older candidates can anticipate, I’m sure they figure out before running if they can assuage concerns.
BTW, it looks like Jerry Brown has decided he’s not going to run:
However, it does look like he intends to be governor of California into his 80s. Good for him and good for California. Governing CAlifornia is like governing a nation(it’s got an economy the size of France). It’s a big enough job.
I won’t vote for Hillary Clinton no matter what, I would rather go third party. I am okay with the elderly who have informed internet policy, can you name any? I have heard it said John McCain’s wife has to print out his emails for him or some such…no one that out of touch belongs in national office, their time has passed, since they’ve had 30+ years to learn how to use a damn computer. In the information age we live in, someone who doesn’t have the basic skills for computing that are part of every day life, is unlikely to be the type to lead us into the future effectively.
Huntsman but he says no way, which is a darn shame because he’d be the perfect candidate for an independent like myself
Whether a candidate can use email has no bearing on their ability to be President. John McCain may not have known how to send an email but he knew enough to fly a fighter jet. I don’t think his technical ability was in doubt.
I’m sure the rather ancient Clintons aren’t internet savvy either. They have people for that. Ditto for Bernie Sanders and Liz Warren. Martin O’Malley probably knows a lot, after all, he started a program to make the performance of government programs open to the public.
I don’t care whether or not a candidate can use email or even a mouse, so long as they can articulate views on subjects like SOPA, PIPA and net neutrality.
Perhaps the time has finally come for Vermin Supreme.
I’d bet that the only views 90% of Congressmen can state on those things without extensive preparation from their staff would be, “The industry wants this bill.”