Posted on 05/27/2013 2:15:28 PM PDT by paltz
Former Senate Majority Leader and 1996 GOP Presidential nominee Bob Dole excoriated the Republican Party on Fox News Sunday, saying the Party lacked new ideas and engaged in too much obstructionist activity in the upper chamber.
"They ought to put a sign on the National Committee doors that says 'Closed for repairs,' until New Year's Day next year and spend that time going over ideas and positive agendas," he said.
Additionally, Dole remarked that not only was he doubtful he could "make it" in today's Republican Party, but he believes Ronald Reagan and Richard Nixon could not make it either in the current GOP, saying, "Reagan couldn't have made it. Certainly, Nixon couldn't have made it, because he had ideas. We might've made it, but I doubt it."
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Bob Dole needs to lay off the Viagra and let some blood return to his brain.
IMO, the GOP is out looking for their gonads with both hands and a mirror; so far NADA found!
I have a lot of respect for Bob Dole since he did serve out country. Having said that, Sen Dole should remember that one of Nixon’s ideas is one of the biggest job killers in American history, the EPA.
Stay retired, Bob.
Mr Dole doesn’t have to worry about much of anything at his time of life.He *certainly* won’t have to worry about OsamaObamaCare.I,being a good deal younger and a good deal less well “connected”,have *much to worry about.Health care...wetbacks....
"They ought to put a sign on the National Committee doors that says 'Condemned - Unsafe' until New Year's Day next year and spend that time planning on how to return assets and relinquish control back to the American people," I said.
it depends on what those “ideas” you don’t mention are, Bob.
I stil remember your “I don’t want to be President but I’m running for it cause it’s my turn now” campaign Bob. Talk about someone who was running for something without any ounce of energy about what he was trying to do.
I mean his campaign symbol was a luke warm, limp dishtowel.
I do love how when it’s convenient the left trots out so-called dissenting Republicans to confirm conservatives are just evil ideologues. How many times have they had Bob on to defend a Republican position lately? Try never.
Meanwhile we have 60+ members of the democrats easily in the Democrat Socialists of America, we have had legislation strongarmed through by democrats with no republican support as well as no majority people support, we have a democrat culture that used government agencies to terrorize and demonize republican and conservative individuals and groups, we have a Chief of Staff Jarrett (or whatever title shes got) who threatens payback, was involved with Obama and Holder running these orchestrated and covered-up attacks using the DOJ and IRS,
and it’s the Republicans who are the partisans who are not working well with those who don’t think like them.
Why do I just not so not buy that argument...?
Um. Bobby. In this day and age, “obstructionist activity” IS A GOOD THING! Geeez. Kind of like “obstructing” the Nazis or Japanese in WWII.
If it weren’t for Nixon tarnishing the GOP, the GOP never would have allowed someone like Reagan to get the nomination.
At the Bob Dole Convention, in San Diego, Dole was really irritated that the vast majority of National Delegates, as well as the vast majority of Kansas Delegates, listed REAGAN as out “top Republican Hero” -— Dole forced the Kansas Delegation to visit the Nixon Library rather than visit the Reagan Library, as part of a “peace treaty” that the Conservatives had to make with the “Moderates” in Kansas.
I admire Dole in many ways, but Dole is not, and never has been, a Conservative. The guy does not even understand “Supply Side Economics” so you can’t even argue the point with him. I loved it when he picked Jack Kemp as a running mate, but then Dole muzzled Kemp and the rest is history.
“spend that time going over ideas and positive agendas,”
Well here is an idea. STFU. No ones care what you think.
You want a positive agenda? Get rid of you and the rest of the RINOs. Start defending the US Constitution. Start defending the taxpayers and working citizens. Start kicking the medias ass when they kiss Obama’s ass.
Poor Bob. On that fateful day he will be dead four hours before anybody realizes it...
“spend that time going over ideas and positive agendas,”
Well here is an idea. STFU. No ones care what you think.
You want a positive agenda? Get rid of you and the rest of the RINOs. Start defending the US Constitution. Start defending the taxpayers and working citizens. Start kicking the medias ass when they kiss Obama’s ass.
With all due respect, to both you and Sen. Dole, there is no well-intentioned federal program or agency that the left cannot pervert.
And, today, McCain pays an undercover visit to Syria...
At this point, a government constrained by a written Constitution is a new idea.
I can here the paramedic comments now.
“Turns out, it was just rigor mortis setting in”.
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