Liberal political website Vox is getting accused of jumping the shark after publishing an appeal to "fix the Constitution ASAP” so that 29-year-old incoming Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez can run for president – claiming"there’s no time like the present to start working to abolish arbitrary qualifications.”

Wednesday's lengthy piece, "It’s ridiculous that it’s unconstitutional for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to run for president,” declared that everyone from immigrants to recent college grads should be eligible.

Vox co-founder and senior correspondent Matthew Yglesias wrote that "phenomenon” Ocasio-Cortez "is the biggest star in the Democratic Party,” and therefore it is "completely ridiculous” that the Constitution makes anyone under the age of 35 ineligible to run for president of the United States.

"There’s nothing wrong with old people per se, but essentially everyone has lost a step or two both mentally and physically by their mid-70s,” Yglesias wrote. "The really awful thing about being old is that you just keep getting older over time.”

Even Ocasio-Cortez pushed back on the premise: [emphasis mine]

"How about... no,” she wrote. "Sometimes political media is too fixated on personalities instead of policies. The whole country JUST went through an exhausting midterm election. We need a break.”

"This is truly Vox’s jump the shark moment. Not exactly sure how you can claim to be anything other than pure parody when you are publishing pieces like this. I guess they believe - wrongly - that all publicity - even negative publicity- is good,” conservative strategist Chris Barron told Fox News.

NewsBusters managing editor Curtis Houck told Fox News that Vox is "supposed to be knowledgeable and explain things to the masses” but "always finds a way to baffle people by showing that they're the ones who struggle with basic facts and trying to explain things.”

"Vox is quickly becoming a parody of itself and this fantasy of wanting her to be president even though she hasn't been sworn in yet is ludicrous,” Houck said. "At least Barack Obama had served in the state Senate and then the U.S. Senate for a few years and could have claimed to have had some experience in office.”

Entire article here. Worth the read, especially if you haven't had your belly-laugh for the day yet. https://www.foxnews.com/politics/vox-mocked-after-calling-for-constitutional-amendment-so-that-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-can-run-for-president

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