" senile old farts " - not ad hominem ?

It would be presumptuous of me to give etiquette advice

    to PROJO letter writers. But anyway , Mr. Edwin Ellinwood, your

    name calling - " senile old farts " - is the quintessential

    " ad hominem " argument against elderly Florida voters.

            To be sure genuine " senility " can become a real issue

    in many areas of life - like driving. But on the whole , I

    hope  that I am as sharp as my own mother - and recently-

    departed father - when I " get there " : the dark half of

    old age.

               There is indeed immense and untapped WISDOM in

    old age. Old China was right to RESPECT the elderly. AGE-ism

    is as ugly and unfair as racism and sexism.

             In their WISDOM , most of Florida's senior citizens

    probably voted against George W - a world class ASSHOLE !