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Bob Dole: GOP should be ‘closed for repairs’
http://www.washingtonpost.com ^ | May 26, 2013 | Lyndsey Layton

Posted on 05/26/2013 11:18:27 AM PDT by lowbridge

The Republican Party has changed so drastically in recent years, the current GOP wouldn’t welcome the likes of Ronald Reagan, former Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole Former Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole(R) said Sunday.

The current GOP ought to be “closed for repairs” because it lacks a vision and is unable to strike deals with Democrats, Dole said during an appearance on “Fox News Sunday”.

The Kansas Republican said he was disturbed by his party’s obstructionist behavior on Capitol Hill. “It seems almost unreal that we can’t get together on a budget or legislation,” he said.

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Asked whether he would be welcomed by the Republican Party today, Dole said, “I doubt it.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bobdole; dole; gop; rino; sourcetitlenoturl
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To: lowbridge

So says the Tax Collector for the Welfare State.


61 posted on 05/26/2013 12:54:18 PM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: lowbridge

Get the Viagra. Bob Dole is closed for repairs.


62 posted on 05/26/2013 12:54:46 PM PDT by FreeReign
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To: Revolting cat!
Consider the source. Just another liberal from the Obama Media Group.
63 posted on 05/26/2013 12:58:32 PM PDT by KeyLargo
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To: Lancey Howard
You heard a lot of talk like that in the 70s and 80s. Those were the Reagan Democrats.

Now those people (and others in the same demographics) are dead, or they've become Republicans, or they've gone back to supporting the Democrats.

There was a generational shift and the memory of the current generation of Democrats memory doesn't stretch much back beyond the Bush years. Holding power holds them together as well.

Soon enough, though, the alienated Republicans of the last 20 years, like Bob Dole, who's almost 90, will also be a thing of the past.

64 posted on 05/26/2013 12:59:23 PM PDT by x
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To: lowbridge
It's his party. The rino party has become what the GOP establishment set out to make it.

They are champions of progressive big government, their party a kinder, gentler (aka: stupid, ineffective) image of the demonrats.

Both parties are dedicated to turning US into the Beast of Revelation and both will go after anyone who threatens the Beast. They all wear its mark and seek to brand US as well.

Reagan was the only president since Coolidge to wound the Beast. All the rest beginning with Bush the elder have made it bigger and stronger, especially GWB and now obama.

Those are your people, Bob. You and the people behind you were the reason I quit the Republicans.

65 posted on 05/26/2013 1:04:04 PM PDT by GBA (Here in the Matrix, life is but a dream.)
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To: lowbridge
Dole hates it when you call him "the tax collector for the welfare state," so that's what I always call him.
66 posted on 05/26/2013 1:05:44 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (It is the deviants who are the bullies.)
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To: lowbridge
Come on every body, give the old reprobate a break; Alzheimer's while on Viagra creates very serious mental and physical problems you know.
67 posted on 05/26/2013 1:12:56 PM PDT by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: lowbridge
Dole didn't welcome Reagan either. He ran against him in 1980.

Viagra Bob was a quisling's quisling, the very epitome of a Rino turncoat. McCain took lessons from him. Dole never hesitated to hoist the white flag to get good publicity.

One of the legends about Dole came with his first running for office. He allegedly visited the county courthouse and learned that Republicans outnumbered Democrats two to one in his area, and that was his reason for choosing the GOP.

68 posted on 05/26/2013 1:14:07 PM PDT by Luke21
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To: lowbridge

Bob Dole and the Washington Post, who?


69 posted on 05/26/2013 1:15:03 PM PDT by bmwcyle (People who do not study history are destine to believe really ignorant statements.)
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To: Luke21
One of the legends about Dole came with his first running for office. He allegedly visited the county courthouse and learned that Republicans outnumbered Democrats two to one in his area, and that was his reason for choosing the GOP.

That's true. I heard him say that. And he laughed. That's when I really started to hate his guts.

70 posted on 05/26/2013 1:20:50 PM PDT by Forgotten Amendments (I remember when a President having an "enemies list" was a scandal. Now, they have a kill list.)
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To: lowbridge
"it lacks a vision and is unable to strike deals with Democrats"

Compromise is vastly over rated.

In fact, the desire to make a compromise rather than stand on principle is largely responsible for most of the larger problems destroying the nation today.

Ayn Rand said it best:

"In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit."


71 posted on 05/26/2013 1:24:08 PM PDT by Iron Munro (Obama-Ville - Land of The Freebies, Home of the Enslaved)
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To: lowbridge

One of Reagan’s famous quotes was, “I didn’t leave the democrat party, they left me.” Somehow, I believe he would have something similar to say about the Republicans of today.


72 posted on 05/26/2013 1:26:50 PM PDT by RobinOfKingston (Democrats--the party of Evil. Republicans--the party of Stupid.)
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To: lowbridge

Isn’t he DEAD yet?


73 posted on 05/26/2013 1:32:43 PM PDT by Waywardson (I did not vote for that pro-abortionist candidate!)
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To: lowbridge

Dole should be back in the nursing home drooling in the corner.


74 posted on 05/26/2013 1:33:31 PM PDT by bikerman (Obama! if his lips are moving he's lying.)
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To: lowbridge
...is unable to strike deals with Democrats

Do ya hear Obama telling repeaters that Democrats need to compromise more?? No he's all about he won and Republicans should compromise and here is Dole repeating that mantra which is why Dole lost! Why vote R if they will help Democrats advance policy by compromising???

75 posted on 05/26/2013 1:40:22 PM PDT by RginTN
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To: lowbridge
Bob Dole says, "I wonder what Trent Lott thinks?"

-PJ

76 posted on 05/26/2013 1:51:41 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: lowbridge

Gee Bob, still don’t know why you lost, eh?


77 posted on 05/26/2013 1:54:09 PM PDT by biff (WAS)
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To: lowbridge

God I hate RINOs!!!!!!!!!!!!! (read tagline)


78 posted on 05/26/2013 2:18:39 PM PDT by HMS Surprise (Chris Christie can STILL go straight to hell.)
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To: lowbridge

the current GOP wouldn’t welcome the likes of Ronald Reagan


As I understand it, when Reagan ran, the GOP wasn’t exactly welcoming towards him, either.


79 posted on 05/26/2013 2:22:19 PM PDT by Rides_A_Red_Horse (Why do you need a fire extinguisher when you can call the fire department?)
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To: Theodore R.

I stand corrected. You are right that he was in the House and voted against it.


80 posted on 05/26/2013 2:52:21 PM PDT by kabar
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