Bob Dole: GOP should be ‘closed for repairs’

http://www.washingtonpost.com ^ | May 26, 2013 | Lyndsey Layton

[Opinionated Blowhard]

So says the Tax Collector for the Welfare State.

[FreeReign]

Get the Viagra. Bob Dole is closed for repairs.

[KeyLargo]

Consider the source. Just another liberal from the Obama Media Group.

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You heard a lot of talk like that in the 70s and 80s. Those were the Reagan Democrats.

Now those people (and others in the same demographics) are dead, or they've become Republicans, or they've gone back to supporting the Democrats.

There was a generational shift and the memory of the current generation of Democrats memory doesn't stretch much back beyond the Bush years. Holding power holds them together as well.

Soon enough, though, the alienated Republicans of the last 20 years, like Bob Dole, who's almost 90, will also be a thing of the past.

[GBA]

It's his party. The rino party has become what the GOP establishment set out to make it.

They are champions of progressive big government, their party a kinder, gentler (aka: stupid, ineffective) image of the demonrats.

Both parties are dedicated to turning US into the Beast of Revelation and both will go after anyone who threatens the Beast. They all wear its mark and seek to brand US as well.

Reagan was the only president since Coolidge to wound the Beast. All the rest beginning with Bush the elder have made it bigger and stronger, especially GWB and now obama.

Those are your people, Bob. You and the people behind you were the reason I quit the Republicans.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Dole hates it when you call him "the tax collector for the welfare state," so that's what I always call him.

[5th MEB]

Come on every body, give the old reprobate a break; Alzheimer's while on Viagra creates very serious mental and physical problems you know.

[Luke21]

Dole didn't welcome Reagan either. He ran against him in 1980.

Viagra Bob was a quisling's quisling, the very epitome of a Rino turncoat. McCain took lessons from him. Dole never hesitated to hoist the white flag to get good publicity.

One of the legends about Dole came with his first running for office. He allegedly visited the county courthouse and learned that Republicans outnumbered Democrats two to one in his area, and that was his reason for choosing the GOP.

[bmwcyle]

Bob Dole and the Washington Post, who?

[Forgotten Amendments]

One of the legends about Dole came with his first running for office. He allegedly visited the county courthouse and learned that Republicans outnumbered Democrats two to one in his area, and that was his reason for choosing the GOP.

That's true. I heard him say that. And he laughed. That's when I really started to hate his guts.

[Iron Munro]

"it lacks a vision and is unable to strike deals with Democrats"

Compromise is vastly over rated.

In fact, the desire to make a compromise rather than stand on principle is largely responsible for most of the larger problems destroying the nation today.

Ayn Rand said it best:

"In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit."

[RobinOfKingston]

One of Reagan’s famous quotes was, “I didn’t leave the democrat party, they left me.” Somehow, I believe he would have something similar to say about the Republicans of today.

[Waywardson]

Isn’t he DEAD yet?

[bikerman]

Dole should be back in the nursing home drooling in the corner.

[RginTN]

...is unable to strike deals with Democrats

Do ya hear Obama telling repeaters that Democrats need to compromise more?? No he's all about he won and Republicans should compromise and here is Dole repeating that mantra which is why Dole lost! Why vote R if they will help Democrats advance policy by compromising???

[Political Junkie Too]

Bob Dole says, "I wonder what Trent Lott thinks?"

-PJ

[biff]

Gee Bob, still don’t know why you lost, eh?

[HMS Surprise]

God I hate RINOs!!!!!!!!!!!!! (read tagline)

[Rides_A_Red_Horse]

the current GOP wouldn’t welcome the likes of Ronald Reagan

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As I understand it, when Reagan ran, the GOP wasn’t exactly welcoming towards him, either.

[kabar]

I stand corrected. You are right that he was in the House and voted against it.