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Dole Goes Nuclear (Against Gingrich 3.0)
National Review Onlie ^ | NRO Staff

Posted on 01/26/2012 10:12:01 AM PST by Windy City Conservative

The Romney campaign sends along a statement by Bob Dole pasted below. Relations between Dole — an establishment figure in the party — and Gingrich were well known to be tense during the 1990s. Here it is:

I have not been critical of Newt Gingrich but it is now time to take a stand before it is too late. If Gingrich is the nominee it will have an adverse impact on Republican candidates running for county, state, and federal offices. Hardly anyone who served with Newt in Congress has endorsed him and that fact speaks for itself. He was a one-man-band who rarely took advice. It was his way or the highway.

Gingrich served as Speaker from 1995 to 1999 and had trouble within his own party. Already in 1997 a number of House members wanted to throw him out as Speaker. But he hung on until after the 1998 elections when the writing was on the wall. His mounting ethics problems caused him to resign in early 1999. I know whereof I speak as I helped establish a line of credit of $150,000 to help Newt pay off the fine for his ethics violations. In the end, he paid the fine with money from other sources.

Gingrich had a new idea every minute and most of them were off the wall. He loved picking a fight with Bill Clinton because he knew this would get the attention of the press. This and a myriad of other specifics helped to topple Gingrich in 1998.

In my run for the presidency in 1996 the Democrats greeted me with a number of negative TV ads and in every one of them Newt was in the ad. He was very unpopular and I am not only certain that this did not help me, but that it also cost House seats that year. Newt would show up at the campaign headquarters with an empty ice-bucket in his hand — that was a symbol of some sort for him — and I never did know what he was doing or why he was doing it.

In my opinion if we want to avoid an Obama landslide in November, Republicans should nominate Governor Romney as our standard bearer. He has the requisite experience in the public and private sectors. He would be a president we could have confidence in.


TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bloodythursday; bobdole; dole; gingrich; newt2012; stenchofromney; waronnewt
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To: Windy City Conservative
Sounds like Bob Dole is having a mental breakdown. Newt didn't have to pay a "fine" ~ and he was ultimately cleared of any tax problem by IRS.

Some get old with grace; some just get old.

BTW, anyone know who the pukes are going around harassing old people to sign statements like these?

That's so utterly tacky!

41 posted on 01/26/2012 10:22:53 AM PST by muawiyah
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To: Windy City Conservative

“Bob Dole don’t blame Bob Dole for losing. Bob Dole blames Newt for Bob Dole losing. Unreal; the GOP is a complete mirage; it’s done.” - WCC

That anti-endorsement of Newt was just like the Dole campaign - uninspiring.

If the GOP is going to survive as a party, it better be Newt.


42 posted on 01/26/2012 10:23:07 AM PST by Triple (Socialism denies people the right to the fruits of their labor, and is as abhorrent as slavery)
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To: miss marmelstein

He wasn’t dead...just really stiff.


43 posted on 01/26/2012 10:23:10 AM PST by Salamander (If I'm too rough, tell me.....I'm so scared your little head will come off in my hands.)
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To: Windy City Conservative

Newt must have put his finger in Bob Dole’s Peanut Butter.


44 posted on 01/26/2012 10:23:14 AM PST by dfwgator (Don't wake up in a roadside ditch. Get rid of Romney.)
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To: Windy City Conservative

I don’t disrespect war heroes so I can’t say what I’d like to. Hopefully some disrespectful freepers here will take up the cause :)


45 posted on 01/26/2012 10:23:20 AM PST by Lady Lucky (A tea party in name only is worse than no tea party at all.)
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To: Windy City Conservative

Bo Dole and John McCain lining up for Romney. Can we get a group photo?


46 posted on 01/26/2012 10:23:22 AM PST by rod1
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To: Windy City Conservative

Next headline I expect to see:

Charlie Crist and Arlen Specter Declare: “Newt Bad For Party”


47 posted on 01/26/2012 10:23:25 AM PST by PressurePoint
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To: Windy City Conservative
-- and either Newt will be destroyed or they will. --

Those are not mutually exclusive outcomes. Both can happen.

Maybe today is the day the GOP committed the political equivalent of a murder-suicide.

48 posted on 01/26/2012 10:23:25 AM PST by Cboldt
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To: tallyhoe

Bob Dole:
Tax collector for the Welfare State.


49 posted on 01/26/2012 10:23:54 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Eh ?)
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To: fortheDeclaration

Bob Dole was the ONLY Republican who could not beat Clinton .. maybe he knows a thing or two about losing!


50 posted on 01/26/2012 10:24:24 AM PST by Why So Serious (There is no cure for stupidity!!!)
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To: Windy City Conservative
"His mounting ethics problems caused him to resign in early 1999."

Keep repeating a lie....

Newt was exonerated of all the lynch mobs charges.

51 posted on 01/26/2012 10:24:39 AM PST by Earthdweller (Harvard won the election again...so what's the problem.......? Embrace a ruler today.)
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To: Windy City Conservative

Is this what happens when the Viagra does its job for more than four hours?


52 posted on 01/26/2012 10:24:52 AM PST by Fresh Wind ('People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook.' Richard M. Nixon)
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To: apillar
Thankfully Dole's opinion's carry as much weight as any other old foggy that belongs in a nursing home. Heck, I imagine anybody under 30 is probably wondering why the spokesman for Viagra doesn't like Gingrich.
53 posted on 01/26/2012 10:24:52 AM PST by apillar
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To: Jack Hydrazine
-- Next thing you know they'll bring in the other Pubbie loser, McLame. --

I think McCain is on the stump with Mitt, as we speak.

54 posted on 01/26/2012 10:24:57 AM PST by Cboldt
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To: Mr Rogers

Pretty soon, they are going to trot out the corpse of Nelson Rockefeller to support Mitt. Which is problematic because they had trouble closing the casket the first time.


55 posted on 01/26/2012 10:24:57 AM PST by andy58-in-nh (America does not need to be organized: it needs to be liberated.)
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To: Windy City Conservative
So when did Dole get paid to dump on Newt? Mitt can buy the rinos and mediots. Look at Coulter, as a probable example of a whore cashing in on the Mitt Gravy Train:


56 posted on 01/26/2012 10:25:09 AM PST by Grampa Dave (ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION IS DESTROYING AMERICA-LOOK AT WHAT IT DID TO THE WHITE HOUSE!)
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To: Hodar
It's quite logical that few who ever served with Newt have said anything at all.

They are mostly dead.

57 posted on 01/26/2012 10:25:24 AM PST by muawiyah
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To: Windy City Conservative

I respect Bob Dole, he is a genuine American war hero.

However, as a senator, his career, like his presidential aspirations, were as lackluster as his run for president.

Unfortunately for Dole, he is perceived as an “establishmnet Republican” and his comments about Newt will be taken with several bags of salt!!

Newt is the current anti-Romney and the more Romney attacks him like this, the stronger the odor of desparation becomes.

Bad idea on Romney’s part, IMO.


58 posted on 01/26/2012 10:25:41 AM PST by DustyMoment (Congress - Another name for white collar criminals!!)
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To: Windy City Conservative

Why should I care what a former Senator turned very infleuntial lobbyist has to say about Newt Gingrich?


59 posted on 01/26/2012 10:25:55 AM PST by BradtotheBone (Moderate Democrat - A politician whose voting record leans left and whose vote can be bought.)
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To: Windy City Conservative


Need a better demotivational poster of Bob Dole.
60 posted on 01/26/2012 10:25:55 AM PST by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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