[mrustow]

Bob Dole on Strom's 90th birth day party in the senate, remarked..."Good news.. Strom's 4th wife was born today in Greenville, South Carolina."

Love that Bob! If only he'd taken that dog off the leash in '96!

[UnklGene]

Old Strom was a real life hero in WWII. 2nd Lt. to Lt. Col..
Parachuted behind enemy lines on D-Day with the 82nd Airborne. 5 battlestars, 18 decorations.

[ontos-on]

Dole had a sharp wit as witnessed by this example. But he is inherently weak [I know he was wounded with the mountain division in Italy] in respect to breaking from the establishment. He was not a leader in that sense. He is essentially conventional and go with the flow, even when it appears he is doing somehthing novel. Any man who would do those Viagra commercials has a misplaced sense of what should be said and what should not.

"ED, indeed" He could do those commercials because he knew that the slick and smart commentators would approve his debasing spectacle. Approval is his master. His appearance with Imus over and over again, as the loser Republican: amusing yet losing . .....and not convincing, is a good image for his totality. He wanted to be liked too much. That is why he did not try to lead or convince people of that which he suspected was unpopular. [That is why he never really could or would risk being unpopular by truly characterizing Clinton in that campaign.] I think that was his character flaw. But maybe,I have just defined 90 % or more of all politicians.