Posted on 12/08/2015 11:57:07 PM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
““Achievements are shutting down the government twice and calling the Republican leader, Mitch McConnell, a liar on the Senate floor.â€
Sometime in the past forty years politicians have succumbed to the delusion that we work for them. That they are royalty and beyond reproach regardless of how awfully they’ve ignored and loathed the people they work for and the constitution
Thanks for the info...Can you now research his thoughts on Carter in 1980?
I can’t wait to hear this one
Back at’cha, Bob. If Bush is the nominee I’m sleeping in.
That is no idle threat.
Not one of the Bushes have had a word to say about the bo disaster
Senator Dole, thank you Sir for your sacrifices in WWII, now, please shut up.
"..........Dole realizes that anyone who has held political office is not the enemy. Politicians who can't compromise, who conceive of their duty as unswerving ideological purity, are responsible for the congressional stalemates that have held up the federal budget and failed to pass needed reforms on a host of issues.
Republicans are falling for candidates that blare their love of Christmas, their humble origins, their disdain for immigrants who don't speak English and their supposed defiance of Wall Street. Primary voters need to wake up. If they do, a more reasonable candidate such as Bush might still have a chance at the nomination.
Dole noted that he likes just about all the GOP candidates. Then he whispered, "except Cruz," as an aside, but he didn't elaborate.
It's classic Bob Dole, coyly polite, but telling it like it is." - [Nov 12, 2015]
May I use this, (the Corrupt Bastards Club) Mr. Niteowl?
Bob Dole says that Bob Dole says Bob Dole doesn’t like conservatives. (the jerk always refers to himself in the third person).
Let’s remember that Dole’s chief of staff was a Democrat who used her past experience as a former nurse to try to ramrod through Hillarycare in the early ‘90s. Dole annointed the liberal Democrat as the Senate’s healthcare expert.
Oh he’s such the caring old grandpa
I respect Dole for his military service and I believe he is a good man ... BUT Dole is WAY out of touch ... he doesn’t remotely understand that Trump is echoing what millions upon millions of Conservatives, Independents and even moderates are saying...
Dole was put up by the RNC/GOP Establishment to run for President and even then he was past his prime ... and he became another RINO backed Loser to being the series ... Dole, McCain and Romney...
If you notice the words.. Dole is reading from the Establishment playbook and not a single word is an original thought on his part ... sounds like he read it whether he did or not...
Go take a rest Bob... take care of yourself ... we like you for who you were ...
Dole is a joke, but not because of that incident.
He made the mistake of leaning on a railing on a temporary dais (probably installed by an overpaid union carpenter) and it broke away.
But hypocritical liberals gleefully said that proved that Dole (at 72) was too old to be president. At the time, he was a few years older than H*****y and a few years younger than Burnout Sanders are now.
Born: Jul 22, 1923 (age 92).
Don’t worry Bob, you might already be VERY sound asleep by then.
Dole is the epitome of everything that’s been wrong with the GOP for the last 25 years.
perception is reality.
He is going to take his Jeb Bush dolls, and go home to play with himself.
Especially when you listen to the MSM and liberals (same thing) and believe what they say.
Liz, come get Bob, he’s rambling again!
Ford aides blundered but Dole is made scapegoat [Screen capture newspaper story]
Why Bob Dole's endorsement of Jeb Bush is so remarkable "............. For Bush, this was a big step up the party ladder. For Dole, it was a devastating blow. For both men, it was the birth of a rivalry.
Their paths would cross again in 1980, when each vied for the Republican presidential nomination. Bush, who had gone on to serve as ambassador to China and CIA director, began that campaign as a largely unknown long shot. Dole, by contrast, had served as Gerald Ford's running-mate in 1976. But it was Bush who gained surprising traction against the front-runner, Ronald Reagan, engineering an upset victory in the Iowa caucuses. That set the stage for a Bush-Reagan battle in New Hampshire - and another defining moment in the Bush-Dole war.
The scene was the gymnasium at Nashua High School. It was billed as a debate between Reagan and Bush, but Dole and three other second-tier candidates wanted to participate as well. Reagan, eager to prevent Bush from making New Hampshire a true one-on-one fight, wanted them on stage too. But Bush didn't. This was the set-up for a famous Reagan moment. When Dole and the other uninvited candidates crashed the stage, Reagan began arguing for their inclusion, at which point the moderator demanded that his microphone be cut. "I am paying for this microphone, Mr. Green!" Reagan thundered. The crowd exploded in cheers, Bush sat in his chair, and the primary was essentially settled on the spot.
It was also a moment of satisfaction for Dole, who can be seen in the famous clip standing near Bush and applauding as Reagan delivered his line. Dole wasn’t going to get anywhere near the Republican nomination that year, but there he was playing a role in the demise of Bush's campaign. According to Richard Ben Cramer's book "What it Takes," Dole said to Bush as he exited the stage: "There'll be another day, George." It was in this period that Bush, in a diary entry revealed in Jon Meacham's forthcoming book, called Dole "a no good son of a bitch.".......
"At age 92, Bob Dole is embarking on what he terms his final mission-an effort to rescue the controversial and long-delayed memorial to his World War II commander, Dwight Eisenhower.
Mr. Dole, who was severely injured by enemy fire in Italy during World War II, is using some new tactics, however. With lawmakers deadlocked on the memorial amid squabbles over its design, he is seeking to bypass Congress, where he served for 35 years, and build the project with private money.
Mr. Dole, the Eisenhower memorial's new finance chairman, will be getting a lot of help. In the past few weeks the Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial Commission also has brought in all the living ex-presidents - Jimmy Carter, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush-to serve on its advisory panel.
Former Secretary of State James Baker and former Sen. Chris Dodd (D., Conn.), now head of the Motion Picture Association of America, will help Mr. Dole with fundraising, and Tom Hanks, who starred in the World War II drama "Saving Private Ryan," has signed on.
Mr. Dole, the former Kansas senator and 1996 Republican presidential nominee, says it is time to complete the memorial to Mr. Eisenhower, who served as Supreme Allied Commander in World War II and later became the 34th U.S. president................."
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