Posted on 01/20/2016 1:23:56 PM PST by springwater13
Bob Dole, the former Kansas senator and 1996 Republican presidential nominee, has never been fond of Senator Ted Cruz of Texas. But in an interview Wednesday, Mr. Dole said that the party would suffer "cataclysmic" and "wholesale losses" if Mr. Cruz was the nominee, and that Donald J. Trump would fare better.
"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."
"I don’t know how he's going to deal with Congress," he said. “Nobody likes him."
But Mr. Dole said he thought Mr. Trump could "probably work with Congress, because he's, you know, he's got the right personality and he’s kind of a deal-maker."
The remarks by Mr. Dole reflect wider unease with Mr. Cruz among members of the Republican establishment, but few leading members of the party have been as candid and cutting.
"If he’s the nominee, we're going to have wholesale losses in Congress and state offices and governors and legislatures," said Mr. Dole, who served in the House and Senate for 35 years and won the Iowa caucuses twice. He described Mr. Cruz as having falsely "convinced the Iowa voters that he’s kind of a mainstream conservative."
The only person who could stop Mr. Cruz from capturing the nomination? "I think it's Trump," Mr. Dole said, adding that Mr. Trump was "gaining a little."
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It is sooooo interesting how reacting to one of God’s elect reveals the true, hidden nature of the worldly.
Tell that to the tens of thousands of people who brave bad weather, long lines and delays to attend Trump rallies.
Yeah, gotta listen to President Dole..oh, wait.
Bob Dole has been disliked around here for years... nothing new there.
At least if Dole had won, Norm MacDonald wouldn’t have been reduced to playing Colonel Sanders.
We all remember President Dole...
BobDole knows about cataclysmic losses. BobDole engineered one when he ran.
The GOPe is getting broke to lead. They are going bend over to behave just like they did for Obama.
When Bob Dole was the nominee was one of the few elections I did not vote in the presidential race...
yes.
Senator Dole is pretty moderate or liberal or whatever
i’m sure the leftists wish he’s all they ever had to run against
The Establishment knows that Trump is a dealmaker. They can work with him. He’;s one of them. The attacks on Ted Cruz about McConnell show that.
They know that Ted Cruz isn’t one of them. So they must destroy him.
Dole endorsed Ted Cruz? Wow.
I remember the ‘96 election - the candidate who couldn’t get it up vs. the candidate who couldn’t keep it down.
And his running mate Jack "Al Gore and I agree on everything" Kemp.
“Here lies Robert Dole, who showed us all on national TV the amazing, miraculous power of Viagra”
(tombstone, how he will be remembered in history)
You could at least quote my post correctly. Is copy and paste really that hard?
Go change your Depends, Bob. Your ilk started the problem.
McCain? Bob Dole? This Trump guy must be Second Coming of Gerald Ford.
Not surprising that the GOPe is backing another RINO. It happens every 4 years. What is surprising though is how many “conservatives” are fooled by the shyster.
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