Posted on 01/21/2016 7:22:31 AM PST by justlittleoleme
Full Title: Shortened to fit. Bob Dole, Who Opposed Ronald Reagan in 1980 as Too Fringe, Thinks Donald Trump is Better Than Ted Cruz
Former Senator Bob Dole opposed Ronald Reagan in 1980. Dole feared Reagan would cause substantial losses for the GOP. In fact, Dole was so terrified of what Reagan would do to the GOP that in March of 1980, as Reagan was on course to secure the GOP's nomination, Dole publicly and privately urged former President Gerald Ford to get into the race to stop Reagan. This Bob Dole, the Dole who lost the 1996 election to Bill Clinton, thinks Donald Trump is way more viable as a candidate than Ted Cruz.
It's official. The Establishment is going in the tank for Donald Trump. Trump's supporters, who think he will burn it all down and slay the establishment, should consider that first Trump defended Mitch McConnell against Ted Cruz. Now Bob Dole is defending Trump against Ted Cruz. All of this comes on the heels of establishment oriented lobbyists saying they would far prefer Trump to Cruz because Trump is malleable.
Takes one to know one and I hope the Trump supporters realize it.
How dare you speak for Jesus. What are you a Muslim?
Bob Dole was an ass then. He is an ass now.
An Establishment coot on the way out sees the light.
There might be some who believe Trump is Jesus.
A Bob Dole endorsement = kiss of death?
... Takes one to know one and I hope the Trump supporters realize it.
They are drunk on the personality. They don’t let facts get in their way.
Thank goodness we have an inorganic rock conservative who never belittles anyone and does not resort to an all lie campaign to vote for.
I don’t know about that... maybe right.... but certainly a vote for Trump is a vote for someone who will do (and already has done) deals with the GOPE and the Dems. A vote for Trump will no doubt give us more of the same.
“Former Senator Bob Dole opposed Ronald Reagan in 1980.”
I had forgotten about that, but it’s accurate.
Wow
Not Jesus “Our Lord”...Jesus the “Pool Boy’.....
Taking advice from a loser?
... There might be some who believe Trump is Jesus.
I am sorry, I know this was not meant as a joke, but I am laughing hysterically. It is obvious that many trumpees think so.
You gotta give the GOPe one thing, they are consistent in their positions.
I guess it’s kitchen sink time.
Like Glen Beck?
What a team. How can we lose?
Trump should address this definitively because it should be a concern of Trump supporters. Getting along by going along has too long been the keynote of Republican congressional leaders. So Donald "The Art of The Deal" Trump's claim that he can get along with anyone needs defined parameters.
I greatly appreciate Dole’s service to the country in combat, but as an “expert” in presidential electoral politics, he’s quite lacking. This is the same guy who muttered he “could be Reagan if we wanted” in his doomed-from-the-start campaign in 1996.
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