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Dole Quits Senate To Campaign Full Time
ALL Politics / CNN / Time ^ | May 15, 1996 | AllPolitics

Posted on 07/04/2009 3:10:43 AM PDT by truthfreedom

WASHINGTON (AllPolitics, May 15) -- Sen. Robert Dole (R-Kan.) electrified Washington today, resigning from the Senate to campaign full time for the White House (256K WAV sound).

"I announce that I will forego the privileges not only of the office of the majority leader but of the United States Senate itself, from which I resign effective on or before June 11th," a choked-up Dole told a Capitol Hill news conference, flanked by Republican lawmakers and a few Democrats. "And I will then stand before you without office or authority, a private citizen, a Kansan, an American, just a man."

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Republicans, who learned of Dole's intentions early today, were quick to laud the decision. "This is exactly the right thing to do," House Speaker Newt Gingrich told reporters after the announcement. Praising the boldness of the strategy, Gingrich said it was the most effective speech he had heard Dole give. Republican National Committee Chairman Haley Barbour said Dole's decision was "absolutely" right.

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: careerendingmove; dole; fedindictmentcoming; honor; palin; quit; quitter
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To: WVKayaker
I can do that too...
DO NOT FEED THE CHAVEZ SHAPE-SHIFTING 0BAMABOT!
His goal is to lead the GOP to certain electoral defeat and clear the way for his Master's reelection!


121 posted on 07/04/2009 6:13:56 AM PDT by counterpunch (In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem. Government is the problem.)
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To: counterpunch
Only the HuckaBots have that much seething hatred for Romney.

Wrong: I'm not and I do.

{Although, right now, my hatred is all aimed at you.}

122 posted on 07/04/2009 6:14:37 AM PDT by Cedric
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To: Virginia Ridgerunner
it’s the 4th of July

Congratulations for getting the date right!

123 posted on 07/04/2009 6:16:14 AM PDT by Cedric
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To: Cedric

I know you’re hurting because your Queen is dead.
I should be more sympathetic to you in your time of mourning.
I apologize.

In time you will be able to move on, though.
Time heals all wounds.
Happy 4th!


124 posted on 07/04/2009 6:18:33 AM PDT by counterpunch (In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem. Government is the problem.)
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To: Willie Green
Perhaps instead of comparing her to My Turn Bob, it would be more accurate to describe her as Pat Buchanan.

Willie would you be kind enough to point me to the post where you said something positive about something, ANYTHING, ever?

I seem to have missed it.

125 posted on 07/04/2009 6:18:42 AM PDT by Bigun ("It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere." Voltaire)
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To: counterpunch; Cedric
I've told you once before and I'll tell you again----none of us are, nor were we ever, on the Huckster bandwagon. The major part of Palin's support on this forum comes from folks who either supported Duncan Hunter (like me) or Fred Thompson. I challenge you to prove otherwise. So, get your facts straight before you throw out that non-sense.

BTW, I see that you and cedric have made friends. How appropriate. You deserve each other.

126 posted on 07/04/2009 6:19:20 AM PDT by Virginia Ridgerunner (Sarah Palin is a smart missile aimed at the heart of the left!)
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To: Bigun
Willie would you be kind enough to point me to the post where you said something positive about something, ANYTHING, ever?

I seem to have missed it.

Maglev comes to Pittsburgh... finally

127 posted on 07/04/2009 6:22:33 AM PDT by Willie Green (Go Pat Go!!!!)
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To: Virginia Ridgerunner
I've long known ya don't know how to think.

Now, it turns out you don't know how to read either.

I see that you and cedric have made friends

Have a 3rd retarded grader read the last line of #116 to you.

128 posted on 07/04/2009 6:31:36 AM PDT by Cedric
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To: Willie Green
LOL! That figures!

You probably are a supporter of that atrocity that runs down Main street in Houston as well.

I should have known.

129 posted on 07/04/2009 6:32:57 AM PDT by Bigun ("It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere." Voltaire)
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To: Cedric
3rd retarded grader = retarded 3rd grader

{it's a Euro semantics thing}

130 posted on 07/04/2009 6:34:23 AM PDT by Cedric
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To: Cedric
Have a 3rd retarded grader read the last line of #116 to you.

You just did.

131 posted on 07/04/2009 6:38:20 AM PDT by Virginia Ridgerunner (Sarah Palin is a smart missile aimed at the heart of the left!)
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To: Virginia Ridgerunner
OT:

Yesterday, there was a duplicate “Palin Exposed” thread and virtually everyone had the right take (they agreed with me).

Funny how disastrously muddled thinking keeps following you around from thread to thread.

If the Law Of Averages ever catches up with you, it's gonna be awesome!

132 posted on 07/04/2009 6:38:35 AM PDT by Cedric
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To: Virginia Ridgerunner

Duncan Hunter’s following mostly went to Huckabee.
Hunter endorsed the Huckster when he dropped out.

Fred Thompson’s supporters mostly went to Romney when he dropped out. So the notion that the venomously anti-Romney PalinChoir are former Fred supporters doesn’t wash. Fred’s supporters had malice towards none.

Plus most of us who supported Fred did so because of his deep experience, wisdom, and knowledge on the issues. That is the antithesis of the Palin phenomenon. Her most vocal supporters are from the evangelical camp, same as Huckabees.

I will buy the whole Duncan Hunter connection. Their stubborn refusal to give up on a no-shot candidate and to viciously trash all the other candidates who actually had a chance seems to be a pattern they’ve brought with them to the PalinChoir.

Even now that she is finished politically, they are still beating their drums.


133 posted on 07/04/2009 6:40:18 AM PDT by counterpunch (In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem. Government is the problem.)
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To: Bigun
Hey, it's not as if the "Manufacturing Czar" appointed by the previous administration was a resounding success.
Heck, they were more than happy to kick back and charge us $4/gallon for gasoline and didn't even bother to drill ANWR when they had the chance.
134 posted on 07/04/2009 6:44:54 AM PDT by Willie Green (Go Pat Go!!!!)
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To: Bigun
You probably are a supporter of that atrocity that runs down Main street in Houston as well.

I am very proud to live in a nation that landed Man on the Moon,
and dismayed by policies that cede technology development and deployment to the Third World.

"Houston.... we have a problem."

135 posted on 07/04/2009 7:05:56 AM PDT by Willie Green (Go Pat Go!!!!)
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To: counterpunch
Her most vocal supporters are from the evangelical camp, same as Huckabees.

Liar. I'm a lapsed Episcopalean - And I'm a strong supporter of Palin. Palin's backers cover the entire range of actual conservatives - those who hate her are the establishment pubbies - weasels with no principles other than proximity to power. I was initially a Hunter supporter but backed Fred when he threw his hat in the ring. And most Fred supporters had no desire to back Romney - most went neutral until McCain won the nomination and then chose Palin as his running mate. Palin was a logical fallback from Fred - what they both have is the ability to speak clearly and plainly, along with integrity, something you wouldn't know if it bit you in your RINO ass.

136 posted on 07/04/2009 7:12:07 AM PDT by dirtboy
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To: counterpunch
Only the HuckaBots have that much seething hatred for Romney.

Lying again. Former Fred supporter here, who can't stand Romney's complete lack of core principles - he says what he thinks needs to be said to win a given election - he reminds me of Clinton in that regard, and one triangulating weasel was enough in my lifetime.

137 posted on 07/04/2009 7:14:14 AM PDT by dirtboy
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To: dirtboy

I’m talking about the core of the HuckaBots/PalinChoir and Romney-haters, not every single person who identifies themselves as a member of one of those groups, and was pretty explicit about that.

So you could say “I am one person who doesn’t fit that example,” but accusations of ‘lying’ are a bit belligerent.
I made a general observation, to which of course there are exceptions like yourself.

You act as though I’m talking about you personally. Not everything is about you. You are neither the center of the universe, nor a typical former Fred supporter.


138 posted on 07/04/2009 8:01:55 AM PDT by counterpunch (In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem. Government is the problem.)
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To: counterpunch
I’m talking about the core of the HuckaBots/PalinChoir and Romney-haters, not every single person who identifies themselves as a member of one of those groups, and was pretty explicit about that.

Bullcrap. You made sweeping generalizations, so sweeping that they became lies.

So you could say “I am one person who doesn’t fit that example,” but accusations of ‘lying’ are a bit belligerent.

Hardly. You were caught spewing b.s., and now you whine about me calling you for it.

I made a general observation, to which of course there are exceptions like yourself.

General? No, you are taking the typical establishment Republican (otherwise known as RINO) approach towards Palin - that only redneck rubes like her.

You act as though I’m talking about you personally. Not everything is about you. You are neither the center of the universe, nor a typical former Fred supporter.

Calling you on your lies is hardly making this about me. Instead, it's pointing out what YOU are - typical RINO slime.

139 posted on 07/04/2009 8:08:20 AM PDT by dirtboy
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To: dirtboy
Your seething hatred is endemic of a HuckaBot/PalinChoir.
Hree is what I said again:
Duncan Hunter’s following mostly went to Huckabee.
Hunter endorsed the Huckster when he dropped out.

Fred Thompson’s supporters mostly went to Romney when he dropped out. So the notion that the venomously anti-Romney PalinChoir are former Fred supporters doesn’t wash.
Fred’s supporters had malice towards none. (I guess I stand corrected here, some aparently are seething with malice)

Plus most of us who supported Fred did so because of his deep experience, wisdom, and knowledge on the issues.
That is the antithesis of the Palin phenomenon. Her most vocal supporters are from the evangelical camp, same as Huckabees.

I will buy the whole Duncan Hunter connection. Their stubborn refusal to give up on a no-shot candidate and to viciously trash all the other candidates who actually had a chance seems to be a pattern they’ve brought with them to the PalinChoir.

  Even now that she is finished politically, they are still beating their drums.
140 posted on 07/04/2009 8:20:47 AM PDT by counterpunch (In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem. Government is the problem.)
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