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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBob Dole fought Nazis. Shouldn't he be held to a higher standard? "I'm a Trumper."
Dole said that. Did he really care that much about defending the Constitution in Europe in WW2? I don't think so.

Ocelot II
(122,854 posts)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
(18,648 posts)Haggard Celine
(17,091 posts)He might have lost much of his faculties before he died. But he was a Republican standard-bearer, so who really knows?
Hekate
(96,075 posts)He leaves grieving friends who were colleagues and are lifelong Democrats.
I myself grieve for days that are gone forever.
dchill
(41,231 posts)Hekate
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over the past week and today.
dchill
(41,231 posts)Haggard Celine
(17,091 posts)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
(16,280 posts)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
(6,630 posts)WarGamer
(16,280 posts)I'll give the old guy a break.
Hekate
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11 Bravo
(24,086 posts)Trump had caused his party to become.