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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So says the Tax Collector for the Welfare State.
Get the Viagra. Bob Dole is closed for repairs.
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.
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.
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.
Bob Dole and the Washington Post, who?
That's true. I heard him say that. And he laughed. That's when I really started to hate his guts.
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."
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.
Isn’t he DEAD yet?
Dole should be back in the nursing home drooling in the corner.
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???
-PJ
Gee Bob, still don’t know why you lost, eh?
God I hate RINOs!!!!!!!!!!!!! (read tagline)
the current GOP wouldn’t welcome the likes of Ronald Reagan
I stand corrected. You are right that he was in the House and voted against it.
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