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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Bob Dole Warns of 'Cataclysmic' Losses With Ted Cruz, and Says Donald Trump Would Do Better
Yes, that is faint praise. But rather than fretting over this please look at the bright side ...
The GOPe (R)epublicrat (R)INO class has had the tables turned on them. THEY are being forced to select the Lesser of two Evils. Bwahahahahaha!
There is a word for this feeling I have inside. What is it? Oh yeah, I remember ...
Schadenfreude
What I post is ‘Factual’ not emotion.
Cruz is by far the best candidate in decades to stop the bleeding, a gift, yet your emotions blind the facts.
Neither Cruz or Trump is going to have an easy time but the numbers look better for Trump.
The full-on Clinton Machine is now ready to attack.
Just think of the mandate when he wins though with no cross-over votes.
The option they can vote for a felon (Hillary) or a true conservative. Most rats will stay home.
So.........I guess that’s it then....eh?
LOL....
Dole failed. Dole's people failed. Dole's allies failed. DC has failed. We know it. You people don't know it yet.
LOL...you just can’t buy endorsements like that. Peddle your blue pills SuperRINO.
And Dole’s running mate, the Godfather of “Compassionate Conservatism” didn’t help either.
Haha! Then why isn’t it in all caps in the sidebar? Trump is for anyone who says something nice about him who’ll stay out of his way, and he’s for anything that person is for.
Bob was a war hero and a good conservative at one time. Then after a lifetime in DC he became known as the Tax Collector for the State. Now he badmouths Cruz because his loyalty is to the institution of the Senate rather than the US Constitution. Disappointed in that I once looked up to men like Bob 50 years ago.
It is exactly because of Cruz’s questionable allegiance to the “Republican Party” and his loyalty to “Conservative” ideas that I like him.
Hey Bob...Loyalty to the Party rather than Loyalty to the Constitution, the People, and Conservative values is why the GOP is finished as a party.
“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,”
Sounds like a ringing endorsement to me.
The fact the these establishment types seem to be throwing in with Trump is disconcerting.
They are telling us who they really fear - Cruz.
I thought it was Darrell Hammond who played Sanders?
Norm replaced him.
Is that “too tall dole” talking?
“I question his allegiance to the party,†Mr. Dole said of Mr. Cruz.
Not interested in his allegiance to the “party” Only interested in his allegiance to the Constitution and to the American people.
He’s right.
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