Pic Of The Moment: Bob Dole Slams The GOP

[EarlG]

Bob Dole SCOLDS GOP: Reagan WOULDN'T MAKE IT In Today's Republican Party

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[Cooley Hurd]

1. First kick

:kick:

[October]

2. My head just exploded. /nt

[DCKit]

8. Shouldn't have. They used to be sane. nt

[October]

15. True that. But so few have spoken out.

[AndyA]

3. Bob Dole spent his career promoting the Republican Party and its ideals

Perhaps he couldn't have predicted the direction it would take, but he should have known that some of the things his party supported--and he also supported--would lead to problems down the road.

Guess he learned a lesson when his former friends and peers voted against the treaty that would protect the rights of the disabled. This says much about what kind of people Republicans truly are, that they could walk past a former colleague, now using a wheelchair, and vote against his interests, plus those of everyone else who is disabled (many veterans they sent to war based on lies).

The Republicans are particularly repugnant people.

[libodem]

4. That sums it up nicely

[Baitball Blogger]

5. I bet W could win a third bid.

[lark]

6. Wash your hands with soap!

I mean it, right now! How could you even write such a heinous thing! I'm sure I'll have nightmares now.

[Baitball Blogger]

7. I didn't say we couldn't take him.

I'm saying that the Republicans could give him a third bid through a primary, if they had the chance.

[chknltl]

10. Not if Bob Dole dove in.

I know, I know, but if his fellow Republicans rubbed him the wrong way he'd be a hard man to beat!

[Baitball Blogger]

12. It's hard to believe that my Moderate Republican friends actually didn't like Dole because

they thought he was nasty. LOL!

How the world has changed!

[caledesi]

14. You certainly don't need brains! ni

[Boomerproud]

9. Meh. It's your party so cry if you want to.

I never had any respect for Dole or his wife. You made this bed so sleep in it like the rest of us have to Bub.

[democrat2thecore]

11. He did sleep in his bed

After his wounds in WWII he spent forever and a day in a hospital bed, and was forever disabled. You might disagree with him, but how can you not have respect for him? No, Dole was a moderate conservative who would be booted from the Republican Party of today.

[TeamPooka]

13. Even Nixon would say today's GOP is nuts.

[polmaven]

16. I'm sure President Eisenhower

is turning over in his grave! I think he would leave - or be driven out of - today's Republican Party. He would today be considered to be a conservative Democrat. I believe he would be greatly ashamed by the turn his party has taken.

[tarheelsunc]

19. He was more liberal than a good amount of the current Democratic leaders. eom

[DissidentVoice]

21. His warnings about the military/industrial complex turned out to be eerily prescient n/t

[colsohlibgal]

17. What Ike Did

The top tax bracket under Ike was over 90% every year. He'd even be drummed out of the democratic party today - but he got our interstate freeway system built.

Funny, there was very little whining about the tax rate back then. But that was pre Lewis Powell memo and pre Faux "News" noise machine.

[toby jo]

18. Back in the day when I was pushing an issue through congress, we were making

some traction with dems. But then got to Dole's office, and all I got was a curt "we don't have time for that issue" from his staff. Not from him, true, but nasty people working in that office.

His was the cutting edge back in the day.

[DissidentVoice]

20. GOLDWATER would say today's GOP is cracked!

It's not just Bob Dole...who, although I ground my teeth in rage at the way he foiled President Clinton's health care plan in 1994 (and the way WJC rolled over and played dead instead of standing his ground), I do respect, as a veteran myself. He is not the kind of chickenshit/chickenhawk controlling the GOP and beating war drums these days.

Ronald Reagan would be labelled a "RINO" (stupid name) in today's Republican Party.

The party of Limbaugh, Bachmann, Norquist and LaPierre is not "conservative" in the slightest.

It is becoming (disturbingly) more and more like Britain's National Front Party.

[Scurrilous]

22. K & R