Bob Dole fought Nazis. Shouldn't he be held to a higher standard? "I'm a Trumper."

[LexVegas]

Dole said that. Did he really care that much about defending the Constitution in Europe in WW2? I don't think so.

[Ocelot II]

1. One thing has nothing to do with the other.

His service in WWII was exemplary; the likely reason he supported TFG some 70 years later was that he was a partisan GOPer who would support whoever the GOP nominee was. Also he was 98 and maybe wasn't quite all there any more.

[BannonsLiver]

2. He's dead. Doesn't really matter now.

[Haggard Celine]

3. You're a different person at 18 than at 98.

He might have lost much of his faculties before he died. But he was a Republican standard-bearer, so who really knows?

[Hekate]

8. I caught part of his funeral. Seriously, he worked across the aisle, & his GOP was nothing like now.

He leaves grieving friends who were colleagues and are lifelong Democrats.

I myself grieve for days that are gone forever.

[dchill]

9. Are we sure his GOP wasn't just better with sheep's clothing?

[Hekate]

11. I am sure Bob Dole was better. You should have heard what Dem former colleagues have had to say

… over the past week and today.

[dchill]

12. I have heard them.

[Haggard Celine]

10. There wasn't so much hate, that's for sure.

The Democrats were more interested in sharing power than the Republicans were, but they cooperated so much more. It started unraveling when Reagan came along, then it got worse with Gingrich. Now we have this.

Clinton and Dole, as far as I remember, showed respect for each other in the 1996 election, never really getting ugly. The young people nowadays probably can't even comprehend what it was like.

I really wish Dole hadn't endorsed Trump, though. That does mar his legacy a little. But he was old and, I like to think, maybe not quite who he was in his prime.

[WarGamer]

4. Dole was what... 95 when he said that?

It's fair to think that he really knew nothing about Trump or didn't understand what Trump was all about.

He was just giving the "Go GOP" line he'd used since the 70's...

[LexVegas]

5. He said that after the attempted insurrection. nt

[WarGamer]

6. You think he had a functional thinking intellect at the time?

I'll give the old guy a break.

[Hekate]

7. Let the old soldier rest in peace. He did much good in his lifetime.

[11 Bravo]

13. He was in his nineties. I doubt that he realized how truly fucked up ...

Trump had caused his party to become.