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Bob Dole: 'Still a Trumper'(from July)
NewsMax ^ | 7/22/21 | Charlie McCarthy

Posted on 12/05/2021 9:12:15 AM PST by Ge0ffrey

Former Republican presidential nominee Bob Dole told USA Today he was "still a Trumper" as he approaches his 98th birthday on Thursday.

A former longtime senator from Kansas, Dole was one of the few GOP elder statesmen to support former President Donald Trump in 2016, and the only former presidential nominee to attend that year's convention.

"I'm a Trumper," Dole, who’s suffering from lung cancer, told USA Today.

(Excerpt) Read more at newsmax.com ...


TOPICS: Government; Politics/Elections; US: Kansas
KEYWORDS: bobdole; cancer; dole; donaldtrump; kansas; lungcancer; trump; trumpers
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To: irishjuggler

Don’t forget that GW Bush and John Kerry were both members of Skull & Bones at Yale and thereby “brothers”. I can’t think of a single distinguishing characteristic of either individual that would earn them this supposed status other than they came from money and privilege and fancy private school backgrounds where they never heard of pork rinds. You are absolutely right - the whole Texas, I eat pork rinds thing was a phony cover for the two Bushes. Bob Dole wasn’t perfect but unlike the others, he was genuine.


21 posted on 12/05/2021 10:12:43 AM PST by laconic
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To: bankwalker

That’s less than Clinton.


22 posted on 12/05/2021 10:14:43 AM PST by TakebackGOP
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To: laconic

Bush men are weaselly wusses.


23 posted on 12/05/2021 10:16:19 AM PST by Leep (Save America. Lock down pres. Brandon!)
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To: Ge0ffrey

I remember that Senator Dole said that the root cause of crime was criminals.


24 posted on 12/05/2021 10:22:10 AM PST by Daveinyork
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To: Daveinyork

Bob Dole would have been an infinitely better president than Bush, Senior, who beat him for the nomination because he ran on Reagan’s coattails, pledged to implement his policies and then turned like a skunk after he got past Dole and unfortunately, got the nomination and the election. Once he was safely ensconced in the White House, old Bush showed his true lack of character by dissing Reagan and his policies every chance he got; he reverted to the Andover page boy he had always been.


25 posted on 12/05/2021 10:26:18 AM PST by laconic
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To: Ge0ffrey
He had a great sense of humor. I liked Dole's recent comment when Norm MacDonald passed:

“Norm @normmacdonald was a great talent, and I loved laughing with him on SNL. *Bob Dole* will miss Norm Macdonald.”


26 posted on 12/05/2021 10:42:00 AM PST by JennysCool ("It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled." - Mark Twain)
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To: x

I think what you said was a fair assessment. Bob Dole may have not been an exciting politician but he was a solid patriot.

He was fortunate to have made it to 98.


27 posted on 12/05/2021 1:02:42 PM PST by plain talk
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To: bankwalker

Dole would have been elected president in 1996 if Perot wasn’t in the race ..


While Perot did not help, I doubt it would have made a difference. Dole was just not a good candidate. And neither was Kemp. He was, however, a good man.


28 posted on 12/05/2021 1:03:06 PM PST by rbg81 (Truth is stranger than fiction)
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To: bankwalker

Clinton won 49.2% of the popular vote, while Dole won 40.7% and Perot won 8.4%.


Also, you are assuming that everyone who voted for Perot would have voted for Dole. I think a lot of them would have, but some would also have voted for Clinton or stayed home.


29 posted on 12/05/2021 1:05:53 PM PST by rbg81 (Truth is stranger than fiction)
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To: Ge0ffrey
I got to shake Bob Dole's hand in 1996 during the campaign.

He was born in the same town as Arlen Specter, I believe, but I don't remember Bob Dole ever using Scots law as a pretext for doing something indefensible.

30 posted on 12/05/2021 1:41:36 PM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: Fury

Are you taking issue with my comment?


31 posted on 12/05/2021 5:39:44 PM PST by traderrob6
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To: traderrob6

What do you think?


32 posted on 12/05/2021 5:48:04 PM PST by Fury
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To: Fury

Your declaration if directed at me is both inappropriately truculent and contemptuous if it’s in response to a comment that asserts in 3 simple words that a 98 year old WWII hero, unable to speak for some years and suffering terribly from lung cancer who’s time to join Almighty God the Father was mercifully at hand.

If you have a problem with that......You are one vile little monkey


33 posted on 12/05/2021 7:39:46 PM PST by traderrob6
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To: traderrob6

Not your call. Whatever you think.


34 posted on 12/05/2021 8:07:54 PM PST by Fury
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