Posted on 12/05/2021 9:01:29 AM PST by Drew68
Bob Dole has died at 98.
You are 100% correct
Dole was closing in on Clinton but really needed an extra week to possibly win. My favorite thing about Bob Dole is that he loved his country.
RIP, Warrior
I was teasing about his propensity to refer to himself in the detached third person.
I remember Perot ran for the office and I voted for him in our TN primaries which are always around the First of March. Than he got out and when it came close to the General election he got back in again and prevented Bob Dole, who I voted for of getting elected.
Pretty sure his yo-yo act was in the 1992 election.
In 1996 he wasn’t much of a factor.
When he was in DC, he made time to come greet the WWII Honor Flight buses even though we weren’t from his state. Once when he couldn’t come, Elizabeth came.
I don’t think so, Dole was not that conservative.
Down Boy.
OK, that there was funny. Good on ya.
Rest in Peace good sir, and thank you, for your service.
Texas for one- can’t recall if it did anyway- will look it up. And... a lot of people don’t remember why Perot said he was running— “to re-invigorate the Democrat party”— so Perot was a vote puller as you’ve observed. Not like a Bernie Sanders of today though- Perot was no leftist, and thus, stole centrist dem votes from Dole and from Clinton— and Perot should have been ashamed to have set up billy cokenose and the hag from chi-town (a nasty piece of work then and even worse now- a life of grift and graft and lies, wrapped up in an ugly fat old greedy dyke with her Huma “companion” still on the fatwa assignment. Above all this- Dole was a decent man who knew whom he was up against— the machine.
Voted for him. I think he would’ve made a measured, calm, decent President.
Read his Bio this afternoon after not reading it for a long time. Very impressive. A true war HERO where others just give lip service.
I hope he and Norm Macdonald are enjoying one another and laughing it up. ;)
🥲
Very nice of you! :)
RIP
In 1942, [Robert] Dole joined the United States Army’s Enlisted Reserve Corps to fight in World War II, becoming a second lieutenant in the Army’s 10th Mountain Division. In April 1945, while engaged in combat near Castel d’Aiano in the Apennine mountains southwest of Bologna, Italy, Dole was seriously wounded by a German shell that struck his upper back and right arm, shattering his collarbone and part of his spine. “I lay face down in the dirt,” Dole said. “I could not see or move my arms. I thought they were missing.” As Lee Sandlin describes, when fellow soldiers saw the extent of his injuries, they believed all they could do was “give him the largest dose of morphine they dared and write an ‘M’ for ‘morphine’ on his forehead in his own blood, so that nobody else who found him would give him a second, fatal dose.”
Dole was paralyzed from the neck down and transported to a military hospital near Kansas, expected to die. Suffering blood clots, a life-threatening infection, and a fever of almost 109 degrees; after large doses of penicillin were not successful, he overcame the infection with the administration of streptomycin, which at the time was still an experimental drug.
He remained despondent, “not ready to accept the fact that my life would be changed forever”. He was encouraged to see Hampar Kelikian, an orthopedist in Chicago who had been working with veterans returning from war. Although during their first meeting Kelikian told Dole that he would never be able to recover fully, the encounter changed Dole’s outlook on life, who years later wrote of Kelikian, a survivor of the Armenian genocide, “Kelikian inspired me to focus on what I had left and what I could do with it, rather than complaining what had been lost.” Dr. K, as Dole later came to affectionately call him, operated on him seven times, free of charge, and had, in Dole’s words, “an impact on my life second only to my family”.
Dole recovered from his wounds at the Percy Jones Army Hospital.
(from Wikipedia)
I was a skull full of mush in college who thought Clinton was cool. Realized, somehow, that leftists are attention whores and control freaks with no moral compass. Wised up and voted for Dole in 96. RIP
After voting for Ross Perot in ‘92, I voted for Dole in ‘96. I’m pretty sure Dole won Texas.
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