Posted on 01/20/2016 6:15:11 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Is Republican establishment willing to stop Cruz at any cost?
Bob Dole, who has endorsed Jeb Bush, has weighed in on the budding Ted Cruz v. Donald Trump contest in the early GOP primaries, and backed Trump in the strongest terms. According to the New York Times, Dole warned of "cataclysmic," and "wholesale losses" if Cruz is nominated.
Dole's logic is viewing the Trump/Cruz contest explicitly in terms of what is better for the Republican Party establishment:
"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." . . .
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No, I really don’t or I wouldn’t have asked for an explanation. Are you trying to say that I made up this article to “smear” Don Trump?
All the candidates save one are espousing broadly conservative agendas. There are important differences, of course, but they are all, save one, in the ballpark of the conservative movement of the past dozen or so years.
Cruz is emphasizing the "I really mean it" meme and regularly criticizes bipartisan corruption and the Washington cartel. I do not see why this should give anyone the vapors.
The exception to the above, of course, is Don Rickles, who is going to make America great again by insulting his way to victory, and easily solve all our problems because they are caused by stupidity, and he is smart.
Dole is senile.
He literally endorsed Trump because Trump has said the word Republican 1000 times but Cruz said the word conservative 1000 times.
Bob Dole was proven irrelevant in 1996. Twenty years later he is still irrelevant.
WGAS what Dole says or thinks, waste of bandwidth.
Go Trump/Cruz.
Trump is the center of all.
*genuflecting*
Look up and see that attack.
one has to feel sorry for such a feeble and useless mind.
Screw off Dole! You’re worthless.
+1.
I would think Don Rickels would be strong Trump. Does anyone know?
I agree; Bob Dull is not for me: I’m sorry I voted for him in 1996, but who else was there?
Bob, really ought to shut up - it’s his turn.
Re:”Party on zombies.”
They aren’t zombies, they are cultists.
I accept your correction
I’ve always liked Dole. People forget that he led the SUCCESSFUL effort to stop Hillarycare in the Senate in 1995, with just 43 Senators, and a bunch of them being really left wing (like John Danforth). Now we own the House and have 55 Republican Senators, but no one will lift a finger to stop Obamacare.
Looks like he’s making a good call here too.
I don’t want to say anything nasty about a WW2 vet.
That leaves me with no reply. ;d
If you cannot stop them, corrupt them, slime into them.
Wait a second, there. Dole was in the process of working out a “compromise” with Hillarycare when Phil Gramm stood up and said “Hell no!”
Credit for stopping it belongs almost entirely to Gramm.
Hank
“Wait a second, there. Dole was in the process of working out a “compromise” with Hillarycare when Phil Gramm stood up and said “Hell no!” Credit for stopping it belongs almost entirely to Gramm.”
Good point - I remember Gramm saying something like Hillarycare would have to pass over his “dead political body” or something close. Those were the days.
Dole came through at the very end, trying to hold a filibuster together while Danforth and some other big-time RINOs were trying to ‘cut a deal’.
Together they protected health care in this country for 2 decades. Sucks to have it falling apart now.
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