Posted on 07/04/2009 3:10:43 AM PDT by truthfreedom
WASHINGTON (AllPolitics, May 15) -- Sen. Robert Dole (R-Kan.) electrified Washington today, resigning from the Senate to campaign full time for the White House (256K WAV sound).
"I announce that I will forego the privileges not only of the office of the majority leader but of the United States Senate itself, from which I resign effective on or before June 11th," a choked-up Dole told a Capitol Hill news conference, flanked by Republican lawmakers and a few Democrats. "And I will then stand before you without office or authority, a private citizen, a Kansan, an American, just a man."
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Republicans, who learned of Dole's intentions early today, were quick to laud the decision. "This is exactly the right thing to do," House Speaker Newt Gingrich told reporters after the announcement. Praising the boldness of the strategy, Gingrich said it was the most effective speech he had heard Dole give. Republican National Committee Chairman Haley Barbour said Dole's decision was "absolutely" right.
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Dole wasn’t gonna win. But Clinton was certainly unpopular in November 1994.
It’s one thing to walk out of a job to take a better position at a different job.
It’s quite another to just walk out.
That’s the difference.
That’s why comparing Dole and others who take administration positions to Sarah Palin is apples and oranges.
I know you’re trying hard to justify it, to make it appear honorable, and I give you points for effort.
It must be hard trying to rationalize it.
That’s why I’m not even going to try.
It’s actually quite liberating once you let go of making excuses for politicians who fall short.
You really should try it.
No more excuses for Bush, no more excuses for Palin.
And thank God, no more excuses for McCain.
It’s time politicians start proving themselves to us, instead of us making excuses for them.
If more people did that, we’d have much better elected representatives.
Palin is the strongest Republican. Only Obama draws more people. Palin vs anybody else would likely result in a Palin primary victory faster than Bush beat McCain in 2000.
The election is more than 3 years away.
You can't be that stupid.
Well, on second thought....
Have you considered that she quit because she put the interest of Alaska above her own?
OK, so Palin can beat anyone except for the one guy we need her to beat.
Next.
She’s been tested, and she reached her ceiling.
And it’s too low to beat 0bama.
You know it, and I know it, and everyone else knows it too.
So it’s time to start grooming someone better.
No one could beat Hillary before 0bama stepped forward out of nowhere.
We’ve got someone like that hiding in our ranks.
Now go find him.
Yes I did, and it just didn’t hold water.
You and every pundit I’ve seen on the tube seem to be operating on a false assumption....that she is doing this as a prelude to a presidential run in 2012.
Ain’t gonna happen. She’s way too smart.
This girl’s not just a great ball player...she’s a skilled hunter.
She’s got the vision of a point guard and the patience of a big-game hunter.
I don’t claim to know what she’s thinking. But I have confidence that she knows what she’s doing. Give it time.
On the couch with that other serious individual, Nancy Pelosi.
>>The party is going to die without some new blood, or a triumphant return of some old heroes.<<
So, who are the “old heroes” you have in mind?
Newt?
I’m forever turned against Newt, since I saw that commercial on TV with Pelosi and him sitting on a couch, in a desert, babbling about global warming. Far as I’m concerned, he should be banished to the desert for eternity.
Maybe you were thinking of Colin Powell, yeah, that must be it. (/s/)
Politicians owe a duty to work hard to the people that voted for them. It’s hard to do your job when you’re in New Hampshire or Iowa. If politicians can’t give 100% to the people who voted for them because they’re running for President, they should consider resigning.
Obama making less than a quarter of Senate votes
http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/11/02/obama.missed.votes/
Why do the voters care why the politician is leaving? Whey do the voters care if they’re taking a “better position at a different job” They’re still not getting what they voted for. And politicians do leave all the time, and apparently you’re among the first to consider it at all unusual.
He rejects Pelosi’s environmental policies.
He was there to present an alternative.
Something no other Republican has bothered to do.
Perhaps if there were Republicans in congress promoting free-market alternatives to the Democrats’ environmental agenda, congress wouldn’t have just passed the Democrats’ unadulterated plan.
Newt is one possibility.
Newt sat on the couch with Pelosi because thesis without antithesis is not subject to synthesis.
You really should read up on the Hegelian Dialectic.
It is the foundation of our two-party system.
Palin would beat Obama if the economy is weak. No GOP would beat Obama if the economy is super strong.
Voters vote on the top of the ticket. The loss was McCains.
R’s typically give the nomination to someone they know, not a fresh face. Palin was a fresh face last year. Now they know her.
Good point. This is certainly getting interesting.
What’s good for the gander apparently is not good for the goose these days.
And that's why Newt, serious man of ideas, “retired”.
Politicians quit their jobs for all sorts of reasons, including to campaign for the Presidency. Apparently you think there are good reasons to quit and bad reasons to quit.
You’ve just admitted that there’s nothing wrong with quitting. I guess you’re concerned about something like “quitting for a bad reason”.
i think she told you the truth: the politics of personal destruction groupies have her pretty well tied up. that isn’t her fault. she would prefer not to stay in their strait jacket. you would prefer she did. we’ll see how it works out.
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