Posted on 08/23/2012 4:45:31 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Bob Dole, the last Republican to challenge a Democratic president, has urged Mitt Romney to confront their party's Right wing and likened the Romney-Ryan ticket to his own ultimately unsuccessful partnership with Jack Kemp in 1996.
Mr Dole, a former Kansas Senator defeated by Bill Clinton 16 years ago, said the party should follow his example of "mainstream" Republicanism and become more appealing to ethnic minorities and young people to secure its future.
"We have got to be open," he said in an interview with The Daily Telegraph. "We cannot be a single-issue party or single-philosophy party". He added: "There's a big split in our party. There's this undercurrent of rigid conservatism where you don't dare not toe the line".
The intervention from the Republican elder statesman comes after Todd Akin, an ultraconservative Missouri congressman, hijacked Mr Romney's preparations for the party's convention in Florida next week with his controversial remarks on abortion and "legitimate rape".
Mr Dole, now 89, disclosed that he had advised Mr Romney on running for president during a meeting at his Washington office in November. He said the former Massachusetts governor showed "flexibility" and a willingness to forge the type of bipartisan deals rejected by current Republican leaders in Congress.
He conceded that the presidential hopeful, who has an estimated $250 million (£160 million) fortune, had struggled to charm American voters still suffering from economic woe...
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I thank him for his brave service in World War II and respectfully ask him to go back to the day room and have his nurse make him a nice hot cocoa and turn the channel to MSNBC.
Good strategy. And lose in a landslide.
GOP losers are really the biggest losers and they are the best in the profession of losers. In fact, if there is one thing the GOP elite are really good at it is losing.
And of the truly elite among the elite of elite GOP losers you have the Bob Dole and John McCain.
Mr. viagra proves once again that he’s nothing more than a d*@K!
I’ll bet Viagra can’t stop him from rolling off the bed.
Bob Dolt, master political strategist.
Bub Dull, a loser for all time!
Romney has been successful in his endeavors over the years precisely because he doesn’t take advice from losers.
5.56mm
Business Insider should be renamed Crony Capitalist Insider. They have been shameless Obama whores for 4 years.
Bob Dole is raking in gazillions as a crony communist lobbyist.
Like other crony communists, he doesn't want to see his lucrative gravy train grind to a halt.
F'em all. Cut the purse strings.
Dole’s brain has been fried from overdosing on Viagra. he needs to sit at home and STFU.
His time is over.
Before you get all riled up, this comment from the source is worth looking into:
“The author of this article misrepresents Mr Dole’s advice for reasons of his own. Mr Dole in no way ,shape, or form, is suggesting that Mr Romney distance himself from the tea party. Mr Dole never referenced them as the extreme right wing of the party. To me, that describes the bible thumping anti-abortion crew.”
Would someone please shut this senile old coot up?
When the heck did Romney ever particularly cozy up to the Tea Party to begin with? I sure never saw it. Never cozied up to the social conservatives either. Nor the economic libertarian crowd. Just the same old big-government “ruling class” that Dole himself represented. Dole should be happy.
I have a better idea.
How about a law that says losers of presidential elections must have their vocal cords surgically removed the day after the election?
That would shut up assclowns like Dolt.
When Bob Dole takes Viagra™ his whole body gets stiff.
Why doesnt he just shut his pie hole and get back to what he was doing!
That happens to me when I overindulge in Jack Daniels, hehehe
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