Bob Dole = John McCain
If you want to know why the Republican Party is in such bad shape, you don’t have to look much farther than these two.
Bob Dole, bless his soul, was just another of a long line of “sacrifice” GOP Presidential candidates going back to Alf Landon in 1936, and including Wendell Willkie in 1940, Thomas E. Dewey in 1944 and 1948, Barry Goldwater in 1964 (or was that 1864?), Gerald Ford in 1976, and the second Bush-41 run in 1992. The reason for his nomination in the first place was that was “his turn”, but there was no popular groundswell supporting his nomination OR election, it was just kind of default setting.
It is almost as if the Republican Establishment just doesn’t CARE if they win or lose. This is a gentlemen’s game, of no more lasting importance than a polo match.
Which is why it is so infuriating to those of us who really DO care. Because the leadership of this nation is NOT a polo match.
“If you want to know why the Republican Party is in such bad shape, you don’t have to look much farther than these two.”
Yeah, but the list is much longer than them! I guess though, they are at the top because of their “IT’S MY TURN PRESIDENTIAL RUNS.” However, all that said, probably the most destructive two today are Boner and McConnell. If there were ever two more spineless bastards in government positions of power in the GOP, I don’t know who they would be. Smarmy and Meaching!