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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: dfwgator

"Nobody eats Bob Dole's peanut butter without asking!"

61 posted on 01/26/2012 10:26:00 AM PST by dfwgator (Don't wake up in a roadside ditch. Get rid of Romney.)
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To: fortheDeclaration

Dole is a RINO of the first degree.


62 posted on 01/26/2012 10:26:13 AM PST by NKP_Vet (creep.)
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To: C210N

Fred Thompson was of course in the Senate while Newt was in the house. Yes, in congress together, but not really a colleague.


63 posted on 01/26/2012 10:26:22 AM PST by CharlesWayneCT
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To: andy58-in-nh

Just nickels and dimes, holes drilled through the middle, cleverly stacked on a wire!


64 posted on 01/26/2012 10:27:00 AM PST by muawiyah
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To: reasonisfaith

If anyone has trouble swallowing the fact that top radio personalities are in the tank for Romney, just take a moment to notice how they don’t discuss the Romney negatives.

Starting with the Romney-Alinksy ties.


65 posted on 01/26/2012 10:27:16 AM PST by reasonisfaith (Or, more accurately---reason serves faith. See W.L. Craig, and many others.)
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To: bigdirty
I think they want Obama back in the White House.

I'm certain of it.

66 posted on 01/26/2012 10:27:18 AM PST by Lady Lucky (A tea party in name only is worse than no tea party at all.)
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To: Parley Baer
It all goes back to THIS...

Next for GOP leaders: Stopping Sarah Palin

First it was Palin, and then Cain. Now, it's Newt's turn.

Disclosure: I'm by no means a Newt fan, but I despise the GOP-E and how it's been operating since November 2008.

67 posted on 01/26/2012 10:27:24 AM PST by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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To: Windy City Conservative

I didnt vote for Dole

I voted for Jack Kemp


68 posted on 01/26/2012 10:27:30 AM PST by Tennessee Nana
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To: Salamander

Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!


69 posted on 01/26/2012 10:27:37 AM PST by miss marmelstein
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To: Windy City Conservative

Gingrich should just put on some (historically inaccurate but popularized by Mel Gibson) of the Scot highland blue facepaint at this point.

I think that makes Romney the cowardly two timing Robert the Bruce.


70 posted on 01/26/2012 10:27:47 AM PST by JerseyHighlander
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To: Windy City Conservative
I HATE the republican party... I hate what it was before Reagan and what it has become once again.

LLS

71 posted on 01/26/2012 10:27:47 AM PST by LibLieSlayer (Recession: You have no job* Depression: I have no job* Recovery: obama has no job!)
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To: Windy City Conservative; Jim Robinson; onyx; brytlea; Diana in Wisconsin; Kakaze; Tammy8; unkus; ...
Republicans vs Tea party-IT'S WAR!

Couldn't be any clearer than that!!

72 posted on 01/26/2012 10:27:57 AM PST by greyfoxx39 (When does Mittens come out in black-face to accuse Newt of racism? H/T APatientman)
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To: Cboldt
Those are not mutually exclusive outcomes. Both can happen. Maybe today is the day the GOP committed the political equivalent of a murder-suicide.

It looks mostly like they are murdering the republican party.
73 posted on 01/26/2012 10:28:10 AM PST by ZX12R (FUBO GTFO 2012 ! We should take off and Newt washington from orbit.)
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To: Windy City Conservative
It's high time we separated out all these RINOs and Dim-lites.

Looks like Noot has been the catalyst

74 posted on 01/26/2012 10:28:26 AM PST by evad (STOP SPENDING, STOP SPENDING, STOP SPENDING. It's the SPENDING Stupid)
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To: Windy City Conservative
George HW Bush = Bob Dole = John McCain = Mitt Romney. W is close, but I'll give him props for his handling of 9-11.

Newt has more Reagan conservatism in his little finger than those four combined.

75 posted on 01/26/2012 10:28:39 AM PST by cincinnati65 (We've been taken for a ride - by Wall Street and Washington DC - Welcome to Amerika!)
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To: greyfoxx39

This is Fargin' War!

76 posted on 01/26/2012 10:28:45 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'm almost to the point of hoping Gingrich says “screw you all” to the party establishment and announces he's running 3rd party. Then let's see how well “golden boy” Mitt does in the fall. They want to treat conservatives and tea-partiers like crap, then lets see how well they do without us.
77 posted on 01/26/2012 10:28:54 AM PST by apillar
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To: Windy City Conservative

At the end, when he endorses Romney he invalidates everything he has written above.


78 posted on 01/26/2012 10:29:05 AM PST by rhinohunter (Not voting for RINO Romney...no way...no how)
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To: CASchack

Yeah, the GOP-E coordination this week has been grotesquely apparent, beginning with Mitch Daniels warming up in the bull pen, and now this wholesale onslaught against Gingrich.


79 posted on 01/26/2012 10:29:21 AM PST by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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To: NKP_Vet
Bob Dole's Republican credentials are immaculate.

You really, really, really are using "RINO" erroneously.

80 posted on 01/26/2012 10:29:50 AM PST by muawiyah
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