[weikel]

If I remember my history Liddy Dole would be a "carpetbagger" not a "scalawag"( a native to the area but a Union collaborator).

[BlackElk]

Ummmm, Liddy Dolt was born in North Carolina to a rich and liberal Demonratic family. Her late dad was one of Lyndon Johnson's greatest contributors. That bought Social Register Liddy a spot on LBJ's White House staff where she joined other Junior Leaguers and many outright socialists in pushing the Great Society and all of the wonderful things associated with it. It is probably true that her transformation to becoming a fifth columnist among Republicans may have been triggered by a residual American principle or even two. The real truth though is that she is what she has always been an aggressively ambitious woman with a trust fund and virtually no principles other than self-aggrandizement and the will to power. Why else marry Bob Dole at his age than to acquire a familiar Republican name however tarnished?

[BlackElk]

Thus, Liddy is hoping to be a scalawag in her few remaining years.