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Bob Dole Backs Trump Over “Catastrophic” Cruz (Bushes and Romney next?)
Legal Insurrection ^ | January 20, 2016 | Jonathan Levin

Posted on 01/20/2016 6:15:11 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

Is Republican establishment willing to stop Cruz at any cost?

Bob Dole, who has endorsed Jeb Bush, has weighed in on the budding Ted Cruz v. Donald Trump contest in the early GOP primaries, and backed Trump in the strongest terms. According to the New York Times, Dole warned of "cataclysmic," and "wholesale losses" if Cruz is nominated.

Dole's logic is viewing the Trump/Cruz contest explicitly in terms of what is better for the Republican Party establishment:

"I question his allegiance to the party," Mr. Dole said of Mr. Cruz. "I don't know how often you've heard him say the word 'Republican' -- not very often." Instead, Mr. Cruz uses the word "conservative," Mr. Dole said, before offering up a different word for Mr. Cruz: "extremist." . . .

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TOPICS: Campaign News; Parties
KEYWORDS: cruz; dole; tedcruz; trump
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To: dforest

No, I really don’t or I wouldn’t have asked for an explanation. Are you trying to say that I made up this article to “smear” Don Trump?


41 posted on 01/20/2016 6:38:18 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (TED CRUZ 2016)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Did Bob Dole give any indication of just which Cruz positions, precisely, are outside the conservative mainstream?

All the candidates save one are espousing broadly conservative agendas. There are important differences, of course, but they are all, save one, in the ballpark of the conservative movement of the past dozen or so years.

Cruz is emphasizing the "I really mean it" meme and regularly criticizes bipartisan corruption and the Washington cartel. I do not see why this should give anyone the vapors.

The exception to the above, of course, is Don Rickles, who is going to make America great again by insulting his way to victory, and easily solve all our problems because they are caused by stupidity, and he is smart.

42 posted on 01/20/2016 6:43:32 PM PST by sphinx
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Dole is senile.

He literally endorsed Trump because Trump has said the word Republican 1000 times but Cruz said the word conservative 1000 times.


43 posted on 01/20/2016 6:44:37 PM PST by ObamahatesPACoal (Savage BLASTS Megyn Kelly, Fox News Over Treatment Of Trump)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Bob Dole was proven irrelevant in 1996. Twenty years later he is still irrelevant.


44 posted on 01/20/2016 6:46:46 PM PST by Soul of the South (Tomorrow is gone. Today will be what we make of it.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

WGAS what Dole says or thinks, waste of bandwidth.

Go Trump/Cruz.


45 posted on 01/20/2016 6:48:05 PM PST by jazusamo (Have YOU Donated to the Freep-a-Thon? https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Trump is the center of all.

*genuflecting*


46 posted on 01/20/2016 6:49:31 PM PST by CatherineofAragon ("Ted Cruz is the type of guy to swim across a moat with a knife in his teeth. He knows how to fight")
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To: CatherineofAragon

Look up and see that attack.


47 posted on 01/20/2016 6:58:15 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (TED CRUZ 2016)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

one has to feel sorry for such a feeble and useless mind.


48 posted on 01/20/2016 7:05:00 PM PST by doldrumsforgop
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Screw off Dole! You’re worthless.


49 posted on 01/20/2016 7:06:43 PM PST by Hostage (ARTICLE V)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

+1.


50 posted on 01/20/2016 7:27:01 PM PST by sauropod (I am His and He is mine.)
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To: sphinx

I would think Don Rickels would be strong Trump. Does anyone know?


51 posted on 01/20/2016 7:34:20 PM PST by Theodore R. (Liberals keep winning; so the American people must now be all-liberal all the time.)
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To: Two Kids' Dad

I agree; Bob Dull is not for me: I’m sorry I voted for him in 1996, but who else was there?


52 posted on 01/20/2016 7:36:37 PM PST by Theodore R. (Liberals keep winning; so the American people must now be all-liberal all the time.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Bob, really ought to shut up - it’s his turn.


53 posted on 01/20/2016 7:40:24 PM PST by WorkingClassFilth (Go Ted!!)
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To: one Lord one faith one baptism

Re:”Party on zombies.”

They aren’t zombies, they are cultists.


54 posted on 01/20/2016 8:22:45 PM PST by brickdds
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To: brickdds

I accept your correction


55 posted on 01/20/2016 8:30:21 PM PST by one Lord one faith one baptism
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I’ve always liked Dole. People forget that he led the SUCCESSFUL effort to stop Hillarycare in the Senate in 1995, with just 43 Senators, and a bunch of them being really left wing (like John Danforth). Now we own the House and have 55 Republican Senators, but no one will lift a finger to stop Obamacare.

Looks like he’s making a good call here too.


56 posted on 01/20/2016 8:34:36 PM PST by BobL (Who cares? He's going to build a wall and stop this invasion.)
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To: BillyBoy; sickoflibs

I don’t want to say anything nasty about a WW2 vet.

That leaves me with no reply. ;d


57 posted on 01/20/2016 8:55:59 PM PST by Impy (They pull a knife, you pull a gun. That's the CHICAGO WAY, and that's how you beat the rats!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

If you cannot stop them, corrupt them, slime into them.


58 posted on 01/20/2016 9:01:44 PM PST by lavaroise (A well regulated gun being necessary to the state, the rights of the militia shall noshi)
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To: BobL

Wait a second, there. Dole was in the process of working out a “compromise” with Hillarycare when Phil Gramm stood up and said “Hell no!”

Credit for stopping it belongs almost entirely to Gramm.

Hank


59 posted on 01/21/2016 10:34:33 AM PST by County Agent Hank Kimball (Trust Fund Donnie Trump thinks "Nuclear Triad" is a death metal trio.)
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To: County Agent Hank Kimball

“Wait a second, there. Dole was in the process of working out a “compromise” with Hillarycare when Phil Gramm stood up and said “Hell no!” Credit for stopping it belongs almost entirely to Gramm.”

Good point - I remember Gramm saying something like Hillarycare would have to pass over his “dead political body” or something close. Those were the days.

Dole came through at the very end, trying to hold a filibuster together while Danforth and some other big-time RINOs were trying to ‘cut a deal’.

Together they protected health care in this country for 2 decades. Sucks to have it falling apart now.


60 posted on 01/21/2016 6:04:00 PM PST by BobL (Who cares? He's going to build a wall and stop this invasion.)
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