Posted on 12/18/2011 5:12:27 PM PST by presidio9
Republican elder statesman and former Senate leader Bob Dole on Sunday endorsed Mitt Romney to be the Republican presidential nominee, a day after the former Massachusetts governor received the backing of Iowa's main newspaper.
In an open letter to Iowa voters, Dole - himself a former presidential candidate - said a great deal was at stake on January 3, when Iowa votes in the first nominating contest for the 2012 presidential election.
"A number of my friends are currently candidates seeking the GOP nomination. But the time has now come for us to decide who among them can defeat Barack Obama in 2012. I've made my decision, and I believe our best hope lies in Governor Mitt Romney," Dole wrote.
"As President, Mitt Romney will succeed in turning this country around," he wrote. "He rescued a flailing Winter Olympics when it was mired in financial scandal. He was an exceptional Governor of Massachusetts, who managed to both balance the state's budget and cut taxes while dealing with an overwhelmingly Democratic state legislature."
Though Dole's endorsement is not much of a surprise this election cycle, he went a different route in 2008 when Romney made his first bid for the nomination. Four years ago Romney got in some hot water when he said that Dole - who had written a letter supporting eventual Republican nominee Senator John McCain - was the last person he would want a letter from.
Dole was Senate majority leader at the same time that Newt Gingrich - one of Romney's main rivals in the quest to unseat Obama - was speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives.
But the two Republican congressional leaders were often at loggerheads,
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Is that the one where the contestants look like this:
Dont ever accuse me disrespecting war vets again.
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you disrespect war vets
neener
Didn’t NEWT endorse Scuzzywuzzy?
I’m a disabled Vet myself. My dad got two (2) Purple Hearts in World War II. I come from a “Military heritage” and I support the Veterans every way I can. No one has ever seen or heard me disrespect war vets. But, I can say that, while I respect their service to our nation, Dole and McCain suck as politicians and “would-be” statesmen. RINOs, both. They both waged the two worst Presidential campaigns of the last 40 years.
CONSERVATIVES are “Republicans In Name Only”!!!!
Dole is the definitive Republican. Please don't call that old hack a RINO. He's as Republican as you can get. He, the Bushes, the Rockefellers, and the entire GOP have fought conservatives their whole careers. AND THEY WON.
LMAO!!
Have Jim Jeffords and Linc Chafee endorsed Mittens yet?
Make that.....Electile Dysfunction
Sqaure Bob Sponge Pants!
Not news of any significance. Any freeper to not expect this should be immediately defreeped.
Bob Dole...
88 years old.
That’s ok, great great grandpa... sigh...
LOL.
First Dan Quayle, now Bob Dole? Can it get any worse for Mitt?
Good, two losers in bed together. We’re impressed.
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Bob Dole is still alive???
Can’t have much respect for someone who one day runs for the most powerful office in the world and the next day start peddling sex enhancement drugs.
Is it perhaps that you do not see the difference between the two stations in life?
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