[joesbucks]

Clinton was too popular. I always thought that the 96 primaries were more to let a few old time GOPers have their day in the sun before being put out to retirement. None of them really had a chance in Hades to defeat Clinton.

Clinton popular? Just two years earlier, he sufferred one of the largest congressional setbacks that any president incurred. My dog could have beat him.

Two things killed Dole. One was the savage primary he went through (comapre that to this years dem primary where they jousted each other with kid gloves for the most part).And conservatives overplayed their hand once they won the congress.

[BigSkyFreeper]

Dole was unelectable, no matter how much you try to defend him. The Clinton factor overshadowed everything Dole could muster up.

Suffice to say, I voted for Dole, because I don't vote third party because third parties will forever remain irrelevant, nor do I give a draft dodging womanizer a pass much less a kiss on his proverbial ring.

[BigSkyFreeper]

Who savaged Dole? The Democrat attack machine did. Who savaged McCain? The Democrat attack machine did. Politics is a brutal "sport".