Posted on 02/05/2008 4:16:13 AM PST by William Tell 2
Below is the text of a letter former Republican Kansas Sen. Bob Dole sent to radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh, as obtained by FOX News.
Rush,
I have not seen you in a long time but I do hear you frequently and I know that you have serious reservations about Senator McCain.
Not that many care but I have not been involved in the Republican Primary contest because Elizabeth, a good conservative, is running for reelection in North Carolina where Romney, McCain and Huckabee each enjoy considerable support.
I was the Republican Leader from January 1985 until I left the Senate voluntarily in June 1996. I worked closely with Senator McCain when he came to the Senate in 1987 until I departed. I cannot recall a single instance when he did not support the Party on critical votes.
(Excerpt) Read more at youdecide08.foxnews.com ...
Aw, I care.
Ah, advice to conservatives from the “Tax Collector for the Welfare State”.
Thomas Paine
The GOP party apparatchiks and flacks hate conservatives as much as the 'Rats do.
To heck with a third party. We need a second one....
He was on Hannity & Colmes last night. He claims that McCain was always there for him. I’m sure Rush would say that back in the early to mid 90’s McCain had a relatively conservative voting record. Then as 2000 was approaching he positioned himself to be more moderate/liberal. That’s why McCain can say he has a conservative voting record when he really does not.
Short version: Sit down and shut up. It is McCain’s turn.
That worked out real well for us in 1996, didn’t it?
After Hannity read off a list of all the ways McCain has undermined conservatives since Dole left the senate in 96, Dole chuckled and said that he agreed with Hannity in every one of those issues. Wow, some endorsement.
To me it’s interesting that all the people coming to McCain’s defense are those who have been part of the problems we have. It’s time for new blood in Washington.
Message from me to Bob Dole: STFU!
Nice for Dole that he can chuckle at some monumental betrayals...and still support McCain.
I can not and will not.
Conservatives should be taking advice from a guy who lost to the Clintons?.....No Thanks....Go Away Bob.
The country club senator protecting the country club senator.
They really do see it as an exclusive club for senators.
McCain is weak against Rush otherwise they would not have sent an “immunity totem” surrogate.
pathetic on McCain’s part.
Electable Dysfunction.
“Elizabeth, a good conservative, is running for reelection in North Carolina...””
She helped get us mandatory seatbelt laws, maybe she can help get us mandatory speed governors on all new car engines. No one needs to drive over 70mph anyway, except the authorities.
Great line. Mind if I steal it?
AFTER ALL, HE DID WIN BY A LANDSLIDE IN 1996.
I have been a Rush fan for a long time, but for the last few weeks, I tuned him out for O’Reilly. When I decided to quit listening to Rush (Hopefully, Temporarily) it was because I think he had become obsessed and his ego was over the top. I don’t know if he got off his meds. or what, but he wasn’t the liberal bashing Rush of old.
Dole’s letter is meaningless. Concerns only his purported familiarity with McCain up to Dole’s resignation from Senate in 1996. He says nothing about what McCain’s done since then, like CFR, McCain-Kennedy, McCain-Lieberman, etc., etc.
Great line. Mind if I steal it for a tagline?
Courtesy of Ann Coulter:
“John McCain is Bob Dole minus the charm, conservatism and youth. Like McCain, pollsters assured us that Dole was the most “electable” Republican. Unlike McCain, Dole didn’t lie all the time while claiming to engage in Straight Talk.
Of course, I might lie constantly too, if I were seeking the Republican presidential nomination after enthusiastically promoting amnesty for illegal aliens, Social Security credit for illegal aliens, criminal trials for terrorists, stem-cell research on human embryos, crackpot global warming legislation and free speech-crushing campaign-finance laws.
I might lie too, if I had opposed the Bush tax cuts, a marriage amendment to the Constitution, waterboarding terrorists and drilling in Alaska.”
Be my guest! :)
(aaaaargh, now I've got that song in my head....)
Sorry Bob we are not voting for liberals.
If anyone should know what happens when the GOP nominates a moderate, and then pretends he is a conservative, it would be Bob Dole. The GOP is famous for snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.
THOSE were the years when McCain was fairly conservative.
He has since morphed into an uber-lib on almost all issues.
McCain is obsessed with bitterness toward practicing Christians, toward conservatives, and especially toward GWB.
He is mentally unstable, Mr. Dole. Things change.
Mrs. Dole always struck me as Republican by marriage only.
That said,
RUSH’S SHOW IS GOING TO BE DOUBLY EXCELLENT TODAY!
The Effete Elites are striking back!
They don’t like the people speaking out. Remember folks, Rush is really just giving a voice to the listeners. how many MILLIONS of people who listen every day? All those people who share the same sentiment of “never McCain”?
No wonder the McCain camp had to be so desperate as to use a surrogate. McCain could not do this himself because he is being fitted for his crown.
John Quincy Adams
John McCain: Bob Dole For The 21st Century.
The only benefit of a McCain nomination by the Republican Party is that Viagra would soon have a new spokesman.
In ‘96 it was said that Bob Dole brought all the excitement of a mashed potato sandwich to the campaign trail.
That was proven true with the re-election of Emperor Billigula.
(w/apologies to all slightly more exciting mashed potato sandwiches out there)
Take you pill, Bob, and go find Elizabeth.
From one failed candidate for the presidency to a future failed candidate.
Two old war heros, two old men who should be in rockers on a porch somewhere
Firstly, the comment about "meds" shows your bitterness and antipathy toward Limbaugh.
Secondly, Rush has been better than ever. His monologue about two weeks ago when Obama and Bill Clinton were in a race-fued was just classic... perhaps the best Limbaugh monologue ever.
I read somewhere on a radio analysis site that it was rated in the top five of all time, and the top by many.
Well said!
“To heck with a third party. We need a second one....”
You are correct.
“And if I might suggest a theme song: Twisted Sister’s We’re Not Gonna Take It.”
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The Who: “Won’t Get Foleyed Again”
And his word is his bond, too.
I don’t know if he got off his meds
I was lucky enough to get get a copy of Doles letter:
Dear Rush,
Bob Dole is asking you to reconsider your opposition to McCain, Bob Dole likes McCain, he supported Bob Dole when Bob Dole was running for president and Bob Dole thinks he will make a good president.
Sincerely,
Bob Dole,
President of Bob Dole Little Blue Pills Inc.
imho . . .
Bob Dole is a very Jr lacky of the globalist puppet masters.
Bob who?
Dole's speaking of another time and not addressing the real issue with that part of his statement. Meaningless in the context of the arguement IMHO.
I don’t believe Elizabeth to be a conservative in any way shape or form.
I think she ranks higher than her hubby as a globalist lacky.
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Exactly right.
Bob Dole - the LOSER who screwed up one election by running one of the anemic campaigns in American History - sort of reminiscent of the way he ran the Senate as Republican majority leader.
Look at who is supporting McCain and then look at who is supporting Romney. That says it all. The NY. Times. Giuliani, the Giulianitas, Pataki, etc.
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