simply the only qualified candidate
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Why? The Grim Reaper shadows your every step. The actuarial tables laugh at the idea of you surviving to the end of your term. Is your goal really to be remembered as being too stubborn to step aside and let a spring chicken born after WWII take over your seat? Is there a special backdoor to Valhalla located in the congressional building? What compels these people to stay until the bitter end?
On top of everything which is said already I just want to add: my personal experience with old people is that they become very stuborn. (Anyone trying to tell an older relative that it's time to move to an assisted living situation can probably confirm that.) So I guess that once those those politicians cross a certain age-treshold, you can never, ever convince them anymore that they're no longer the right person for the job, especially not if you're trying to argue that their age is the problem.