Which just happens to be true. Mr Dole, you can't handle the truth.
And the word is “RINO”.
And he uses the word ‘conservative’ more than he ever uses the word ‘Republican.’
Very good Mr Dole. Cause the Republican Party establishment lost their way long ago. That is why Ted Cruz connects strongly with frustrated, long suffering, conservative Republican base and is rising in the polls.
Related, it just occurred to me last night: I thought of Reagan's famous "I didn't leave the Democrat party, the Democrat party left me." The Republican party left me in 2008, when it nominated the worse candidate possible, John McCain, and expected me to vote for it. I did because Palin was his running mate and I figured odds were that McCain would be carried out of the WH in a straightjacket before his first term, decent gamble.
By 2012, when amoral leftist functional Democrat Mitt Romney was the nominee of "my party," for the first time in 35 years of doggedly voting Republican, the realization of how much the party had left me sunk in, but it was true in 2008. McCain was worse than a joke -- he was sabotage.
What a coincidence -- 2009 is when Trump (re)discovered the Republican party, after being a Democrat since 1999 (a flirtation with "Independent" was in there somewhere); he'd been Republican from 1987 to '99. So Trump began inhabiting the party that left me right on time.
A fricken' reality TV show self-promoted celebrity billionaire with a 26-year track record of politically left-leaning moderate at best, turned Republican patriot hero -- he can do anything, he's The Donald! Hear him roar!
Man. Truth is stranger than fiction.