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Bob Dole: Bob Dole Sees "Cataclysmic" Losses This Year If Ted Cruz Beats Donald Trump
Hotair ^ | 1/20/2016 | Allahpundit

Posted on 01/20/2016 7:38:59 PM PST by JSDude1

At some point during the past week I entered a Twilight Zone episode where constitutional conservative Sarah Palin thinks Donald Trump is the future of America and elder statesmen Bob Dole thinks Ted Cruz, more so than the third-party-flirting former Democrat Trump, is the one with the loyalty problem to the GOP.

Incidentally, didn’t this guy endorse Jeb Bush? Why is he talking up Trump here?

“I question his allegiance to the party,” Mr. Dole said of Mr. Cruz. “I don’t know how often you’ve heard him say the word ‘Republican’ — not very often.” Instead, Mr. Cruz uses the word “conservative,” Mr. Dole said, before offering up a different word for Mr. Cruz: “extremist.”…

But Mr. Dole said he thought Mr. Trump could “probably work with Congress, because he’s, you know, he’s got the right personality and he’s kind of a deal-maker.”…

“If he’s the nominee, we’re going to have wholesale losses in Congress and state offices and governors and legislatures,” said Mr. Dole, who served in the House and Senate for 35 years and won the Iowa caucuses twice. He described Mr. Cruz as having falsely “convinced the Iowa voters that he’s kind of a mainstream conservative.”

The only person who could stop Mr. Cruz from capturing the nomination? “I think it’s Trump,” Mr. Dole said, adding that Mr. Trump was “gaining a little.”…

Mr. Dole repeatedly said he was strongly supporting Jeb Bush, the former governor of Florida, although he acknowledged that Mr. Bush has had trouble gaining traction.

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TOPICS: Editorial; Extended News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: canadian; cruz; dole; establishment; ineligible; trump
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Also from this article "but the idea that Cruz is too extreme to win anything despite the fact that he’s run the best campaign of any Republican and would have a weak Democratic opponent soldiers on. Somehow Trump’s surprising campaign strength has shocked everyone into taking him seriously but Cruz’s surprising campaign strength is ignored as irrelevant in the general. Lefty Jonathan Chait looks at the two of them, assessing their relative liabilities, and says Republicans like Dole would be nuts to prefer Trump to Cruz as nominee"
1 posted on 01/20/2016 7:38:59 PM PST by JSDude1
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To: JSDude1

Already posted a long while ago.


2 posted on 01/20/2016 7:41:36 PM PST by dforest
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Related...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/search?m=all;o=time;q=quick;s=dole%20cruz


3 posted on 01/20/2016 7:42:36 PM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo (Get Ready)
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To: JSDude1

Bob Dull, official tax collector for the welfare state.


4 posted on 01/20/2016 7:42:41 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum ("The goal of socialism is communism." -- Vladimir Lenin)
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To: JSDude1

I actually voted for this loser once.


5 posted on 01/20/2016 7:42:45 PM PST by Sans-Culotte (''Political correctness is communist propaganda writ small''~ Theodore Dalrymple)
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Oh No! Bob Dole is anti Cruz! It's all over people.


6 posted on 01/20/2016 7:43:44 PM PST by garjog (Obama: bringing joy to the hearts of Terrorists everywhere.)
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To: dforest

I must say, I love it when “Allahpundit” is in a twist.


7 posted on 01/20/2016 7:43:55 PM PST by RitaOK ( VIVA CRISTO REY / Public education is the farm team for more Marxists coming)
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You mean like when you ran for president Bob? You suck Dole. Get lost.


8 posted on 01/20/2016 7:45:02 PM PST by Nachum (Obamacare: It's. The. Flaw.)
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To: garjog

“Got Wood?”


9 posted on 01/20/2016 7:45:37 PM PST by headstamp 2
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To: JSDude1

I hope the RINOs are all cleared out.

Trump can just Executive Order it all the way!


10 posted on 01/20/2016 7:45:44 PM PST by TigerClaws
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Bob Dole needs to go back to doing Viagra commercials.


11 posted on 01/20/2016 7:46:50 PM PST by The_Media_never_lie (The Bush family needs to just go away. The Clinton family needs just to go to prison.)
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To: JSDude1

Jebralito approves this message.


12 posted on 01/20/2016 7:47:48 PM PST by lee martell
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My mom is Dole’s age. If I tell her something in the morning, she will tell the same thing to someone ten minutes later and think she read it somewhere.

She hasn’t passed a Montreal test in years. I am sure Bob is headed that direction as well.


13 posted on 01/20/2016 7:48:05 PM PST by Vermont Lt
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Bob Dole told us at one time he was the only one that could beat Clinton too.

Even without Viagra. Bob Dole has always been a Richard cranium


14 posted on 01/20/2016 7:49:50 PM PST by VRWCarea51 (The original 1998 version)
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I question his allegiance to the party,” Mr. Dole said of Mr. Cruz.

It's very telling that Dole is concerned about "the party" rather than "the people".

15 posted on 01/20/2016 7:52:30 PM PST by oldbrowser (The republican party is the voters, not the politicians.)
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Don’t forget Chester Lott. A election wouldn’t official without that jackwagon’s opinion too


16 posted on 01/20/2016 7:53:47 PM PST by VRWCarea51 (The original 1998 version)
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"Incidentally, didn’t this guy endorse Jeb Bush? "

Spin him on the floor a few times, then see if he'll support comrade sanders.
17 posted on 01/20/2016 7:58:18 PM PST by clearcarbon
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Thanks for the advice President Dole.


18 posted on 01/20/2016 7:59:05 PM PST by JJ_Folderol (Just my opinion and only worth what you paid for it.)
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To: JSDude1

Bob Dole is 92.


19 posted on 01/20/2016 7:59:12 PM PST by FreeReign
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So Bob Dole, the ulitmate esablishmentarianist is trashing Ted Cruz, the consummate disestablishmentarianist and supporting Trump, the antidisestablismentarianist!

We should all take advice about winning from Bob Dole.

20 posted on 01/20/2016 8:06:44 PM PST by P-Marlowe (Anyone who would give $250,000 to the Clinton Pay for Play Foundation is not getting my vote!)
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