Posted on 12/05/2021 11:34:58 AM PST by conservative98
MIAMI (AP) _ Bob Dole, looking for a dramatic climax for his uphill presidential campaign, announced a 96-hour, virtually nonstop final push through 15 states beginning Friday. ``I want to shake up this race,″ he declared.
Trailing badly in the polls with five days to go, Dole also appealed Thursday to Ross Perot’s supporters in his most direct terms yet.
In what could be viewed as a concession that he could not win a three-way race against Clinton, Dole said, ``I can beat one candidate. I can’t beat two. So don’t vote for Ross Perot.″
Aides said that after an overnight stop in Columbus, Ohio, on Thursday night, the only hotel pauses before Election Day would be brief, 90-minute stops every 24 hours so Dole and his entourage could freshen up.
Dole will both fly and take long bus trips as part of the coast-to-coast plan, aides said.
``Where’s the map?″ Dole asked aboard his campaign plane, indicating he was ready to go. ``Gonna wear you out,″ he told reporters.
The dramatic travel gesture _ which would dwarf the 30-hour, 10-city blitz that Clinton himself did in 1992 _ came as Dole and his strategists struggled to find a way to invigorate his campaign.
The race has been frozen for months, with Clinton holding a double-digit lead in the polls.
Dole compared the final effort to his wartime fighting in Europe.
``The last time I fought ‘round the clock for my country was in 1945 in Italy,″ Dole said. ``Beginning at noon tomorrow, I will once again fight ’round the clock for America’s future.″
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Thanks for this, 98, a great way to honor a Great Man!
I am sure he was a good human being, but I voted for Perot.
And have never regretted it. I have always seen Trump as Perot 2.0, this time without withdrawing!
LOL!
I voted for Perot the first time in ‘92. Then I realized that votes for Perot threw the election to Clinton and didn’t want to make the same mistake twice.
One of his stops was at 4 AM (or so) at the Bendix Diner in northern NJ. I took my son, then 13, to greet Dole.
ML/NJ
This was around the time that Free Republic was getting off the ground. Before that, many of us old-timers were on the Prodigy/Whitewater BB. Including Jim Robinson.
Just over a year later, the Monica Lewinsky story broke. Then a lot of Freepers (including myself) met in DC late October 1998.
From that point on, I regretted my Perot vote and not voting for Dole.
Yes, Trump was definitely Perot 2.0. Trump had a much thicker skin then Perot and I feel his presidential chapter is not fully written yet. Not by a long shot.
I’ll say this about Bob Dole. Sometimes I didn’t agree with some of the things that he did as Senate Majority leader but I respected the heck out of his decision to forgo that position in order to run for President saying that the run needed 100% commitment from him. He was horribly injured in WWII. In rehab for a very long time. You always saw him with a pen clasped in his hand. That hand, and arm never regained use from those injuries. It was very disheartening to see him lose to a no-good draft dodging, lying coke and sex addict.
He wasn’t the guy to get the job done. I remember the Kemp/gore debate. Gore started some point to the effect that, unlike all the other Republicans, kemp was a good and honorable man. In true defeatist chronic loser fashion, instead of vigorously defending the impugning of the GOP,
Kemp began his answer with “I thank my friend for his kind remarks…”
thank you Ross Perot, you woke me up.
Basically, you voted for Clinton. Dole is basically a version of 41 but I doubt that he would had raised taxes at that time. 41 made that mistake and it cost him the election in ‘92.
Perot was a gun grabber, but right on the major issues. Issues on trade and government spending. Those issues will never be fixed, because the people ‘we’ elect have chosen not to fix those problems and continue running up the debt. The sooner America realizes this, the better off we will be. It’s all downhill.
I went to the GOP debate at ASU and Dole didn’t even show up. Forbes, Buchanan, and the others were there. Dole acted like he was the anointed loser to to Clinton, tossing sweet potatoes at him designed to miss. Buchanan won NH and basically quit campaigning.
I voted for Dole, but I didn’t want to. It was such a lame experience, going to the polls. But it was my oldest daughter’s first vote. She left the booth saying, “That was useless.” We went home and watched Clinton clean up.
Dole was the first Republican to lose Arizona since Thomas E. Dewey.
Dole, an infantry combat veteran of WW II, severely wounded in the brutal Italian campaign never spoke out about the scandal of Bill Clinton being drafted and refusing to serve, fleeing his country in wartime to avoid military service.
Dole was afraid of being savaged by the Corrupt Liberal News media if he made that an issue that would have won him the white house. As a result, Clinton became our Commander in Chief despite his craven record of cowardice.
Your priorities are really whacked, ya know?
Pretty ambiguous he still wants to do this
I like Dole but he was always set up by the GOP to be the loser , just like Mitt.
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