Posted on 05/06/2016 6:39:42 PM PDT by Innovative
Former Kansas senator and 1996 Republican nominee Bob Dole endorsed Donald Trump for president on Friday, calling for the GOP to unite around Trump in order to defeat Hillary Clinton, the likely Democratic nominee.
Dole's support gives the GOP presumptive nominee the support of another party elder on a day when other top Republicans announced their opposition. Trump inconspicuously announced the endorsement earlier on Friday at a rally in Omaha, Nebraska, as he ticked off the names of several prominent Republicans who have come around to his candidacy since he became the party's presumptive nominee earlier this week.
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LMAO!
>> Wow...it is amazing what is going on right now.
Yup, there’s a serious fissure underway.
bob dole meets norm macdonald playing bob dole
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YaQlijIy00
these skits were classic
I’m truly stunned. Are Bush, Graham, Ryan, Krauthammer and Kristol just terrible losers who should all be flushed and wiped? Dole...and Cheney. Really? Wow.
Yes.
Dole...and Cheney. Really? Wow.
Party loyalist vs. globalist ideologue, the new GOPe schism.
If this doesn’t prove The Donald is pure GOP nothing will.
Bob Dole never liked Cruz, what’s up with that?
/s
“For a long moment, I didn’t know if I was dead or alive. I sensed the dirt in my mouth more than I tasted it. I wanted to get up, to lift my face off the ground, to spit the dirt and blood out of my mouth, but I couldn’t move. I lay face down in the dirt, unable to feel my arms. Then the horror hit me-I can’t feel anything below my neck! I didn’t know it at the time, but whatever it was that hit me had ripped apart my shoulder, breaking my collar bone and my right arm, smashing down into my vertebrae, and damaging my spinal cord.”
Bob Dole’s combat career ended that April day in 1945, but his gravest struggle and greatest triumph lay ahead. The critical wounds he sustained—and the way he, his friends, and family reacted in their aftermath—would shape the rest of his life. “It’s said often that my generation is the greatest generation,” he writes. “Truth be told, we were ordinary Americans fated to confront extraordinary tests.”
Few more so than Dole himself. The enemy fire that struck his right shoulder also destroyed one kidney, cost him the use of his right arm, and deprived him of most sensation in his partially-workable left arm. For three years, he would spend most of his time in hospital beds, sometimes close to death.
“Each day became a marathon of endless hours trying to exercise my legs, my left arm, and the fingers on my left hand, with Mom and the nurses cheering every small triumph. On good days, I could move a finger or an arm a little; on bad days, I struggled to move at all. I felt imprisoned in my frozen body. I still could not control my bladder or bowels; nor could I sit up in bed. . . . Often after I’d tried for hours to move my arms, Mom or Norma Jean [his sister] would suddenly hurry out of the room. A few minutes later, they’d return, their eyes red and puffy. Sometimes, after Dad and Norma Jean said good-bye, and Mom returned to her apartment for the night, I’d lie in bed staring into the darkness, asking myself again and again, Why? Why me? Why was I on that Hill 913? What did I ever do to deserve this? Why wasn’t Somebody up there looking out for me? . . . In my better moments I realized, Somebody was.”
Ryan has his SHillary arrow Jammies on and is sucking his thumb.This traitor bastard shall be primarried!
Yes. Bush, Graham, Ryan, Krauthammer and Kristol are losers who need to be flushed.
Thank you, Bob.
Bob Dole Told Donald Trump that Bob Dole was voting for Donald Trump. Bob Dole approves!
I saw Dole about a year ago as he greeted plane loads of Honor Flight veterans at the WWII Memorial.
He’s an honorable man. I wanted to shake his hand but the vets were more important so I backed away.
Wow. Had no idea the extent of wounds or the suffering that Bob Dole has endured. He is a true American war hero and patriot. People need to show some respect even when they disagree with his political stances.
In the end, he remains a man to be admired and has so much more class than the current leadership. It’s amazing he’s been able to have such a long life given the serious of his injuries 70+ years ago.
No Way!
No chance!
Trump, don’t fall for it if true!
Y.I.P.E.E.E.E.E.E.E!
Yes they need to be flushed.
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