MEGHAN MCCAIN: Mr President, you're not fit to finish a first term, let alone a second

As President Joe Biden continues to aimlessly shuffle around a 2024 run, it’s time that Democrats publicly admit the obvious: He is not fit to finish his first term, let alone serve a second.

The 80-year-old commander-in-chief told NBC News’ Al Roker at the annual White House Easter Egg roll on Monday, ‘I plan on running, Al, but we’re not prepared to announce it yet.’

Come on, Joe.

If you were so confident you would have jumped in by now. The delay is embarrassing. And this waffling – unprecedented in modern American political history – belies the reality.

Let’s just say what people on both sides of the aisle whisper in political circles. He’s too old.

If Biden wins in 2024, he would be 86 at the end of his second term. Let that sink in. 86-years-old.

He is already the oldest person to ever enter the Oval Office at 78-years-old – and now he’s going to double down?

This week’s Easter event was a reminder of last year’s debacle. Remember when a White House staffer in an Easter Bunny costume shooed the President away from the media as they shouted questions. It was proof of the anxiety that grips his staff every time he opens his mouth.

Here are some recent examples of his glaring gaffes:

In early February, Biden boasted in a speech that ‘more than half the women in my administration are women.’

He accidentally shared details about former President Jimmy Carter’s failing health by revealing that he was ‘asked to do his eulogy’ before realizing ‘I should not have said that.’

As he toured tornado damage, he referred to the town of Rolling Fork, Mississippi as ‘Rolling Stone’.

Yes, one could dismiss these as flubs. But we know they’re not. It’s a pattern that has only become more pronounced over the past two years.

Shall we revisit the greatest hits?

He said a ‘minor’ Russian incursion into Ukraine may not elicit a U.S response; he searched for a deceased U.S. Congresswomen at a White House event; he botched the articulation of U.S. policy in the event of a Chinese invasion of Taiwan.

These aren’t tiny mistakes.

Biden’s also had an increasing number of physical missteps. He tripped and fell in Poland on February 22nd while climbing the stairs to Air Force One and he did it again nearly two weeks later on a trip to Alabama. And how can we forget the dangerous spill that he took off a bike in Rehoboth, Delaware.

I am not trying to be cruel. I am being honest in the face of this mass delusion.

Many Democrats admit to me privately what they’re loathe to admit in public. They are terrified of the prospects for America under a second Biden term.

They recognize that a President who cannot be trusted to represent the country at regular news conferences is an unacceptable vulnerability for the country. It’s no surprise that compared to his predecessors Biden has granted the media pathetically few opportunities to question him.

But don’t take it from me.

An April Economist-YouGov survey revealed that only 48 percent of Democrats want Biden to run again. A majority – 52 percent – are either against it or unsure.

A Yahoo poll from February cut even closer to the bone. Forty-eight percent of Democrats said Biden’s ‘too old for another term’.

None of this is lost on the elite Democratic establishment, but frankly what else are they going to do?

There is no formidable party challenger to take on Biden, because every major player has doubled down on progressivism and wokeism.

Governor Gavin Newsom is a pipe dream. His state is an example of what a failed progressive dystopia looks like as citizens flee California like rats from a sinking ship.

Mayor Pete has bungled crisis after crisis as Transportation Secretary. He recently delayed visiting East Palestine, Ohio after a toxic train derailment – for nearly three weeks.

And then there’s Vice President Kamala Harris. How a women that checks every identity politics box can be so disliked by Democrats is a mystery. Be there she is – cackling and obsessing over Venn diagrams.

The only thing that Biden’s party has left is to gaslight America into thinking that his age should not be a factor.

86 is the new 46. Didn’t you know?

White House Press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre has repeatedly dismissed concerns about Biden’s age and stamina saying ‘this is not a question we should even be asking.’ She went so far as to say she can ‘barely keep up with him.’ Yeah. Right.

I am also not oblivious to the criticism that I will receive for voicing this opinion. My own father ran for a Senate seat at 78-years-old. He later died of glioblastoma brain cancer a few days shy of his 80th birthday.

I loved him with all my heart and miss him every single day. But I also regret not pushing harder for him to retire instead of run for re-election. He got sick while holding office and he didn’t have the opportunity to spend the last years of his life with his friends and family.

So, a word of advice, Mr. President. My father should have been more realistic about his advanced age. Maybe you should too?

It is a hard reality for me reconcile, but if I had a time machine, I would go back and lobby my dad to pass the baton and come home to a family that loved him.

Nikki Haley is right. There should be competency tests for politicians of a certain age. I also believe it is time for term limits. Some of these boomers are too selfish to ever leave office. They’d rather decline in front of us.

Look at Senator Diane Feinstein. At 89 years old she has missed 58 Senate votes since getting sick in late February and that’s now impacting judicial nominee votes.

A top Democratic strategists was recently quoted saying, ‘God Bless her, but the most pathetic part of politics is when somebody doesn’t know when it’s time to leave.’

In the end, why does Biden keep saying he’s ‘planning’ on running? Well, because he’s also planning on not running.

So Joe – if you have any sense left – get out while the getting is good.