I'm not going to vote for a candidate just because some guy tells me I'm stupid if I don't. Hello? What's idiotic is that argument. Conservatives will have no chance at all unless they first stop calling each other stupid.
Bob got my vote. There was very little choice at the time.
Nor did I. Dole wasn't as conservative as I would have wanted but he was every bit as conservative as Fred Thompson who was supposedly the conservative savior this year. I still wish Dole had gotten the nomination in 1988 rather than George H. W. Bush.
Bob Dole is given a lot of grief for running a bad campaign but unfortunately for Republicans, Bill Clinton wasn't going to be beaten in 1996, no matter who was the Republican candidate.