Posted on 01/26/2012 2:21:59 PM PST by NormsRevenge
Former Senate Majority Leader — and 1996 GOP Presidential nominee – Bob Dole just tore into Newt Gingrich with an open letter that violates Reagan’s 11th Commandment so many times, Bob Dole will be in the confessional until Easter.
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.. 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.
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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.
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The reaction from Camp Newt:
“It’s got to be on the top 10 list of the weirdest things he’s ever written,” Gingrich spokesperson RC Hammond told Talking Points Memo at a campaign event in Jacksonville, FL.
(Excerpt) Read more at blog.sfgate.com ...
There will be people old enough to vote this November who can't remember his Presidential campaign, but might remember him talking on TV about "E.D."
Now all of these Republicans become elder statesmen. Heck, even Tom Delay weighed in - against Newt, of course, or we would have heard crickets.
” One thing Bob Dole knows, Bob Dole knows how to fall on his face”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWib8GbrIlA
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NO! We set ourselves up for a landslide when we nominated him!!
Don't know why that is so (although it does appear to be so), since Joe Klein and other MSM smartasses gloated long and loud in their very next issues of TIME and Newspeak after the 1996 election, about "how we did it".
Dole can blame Newt all he wants -- fact is, Clinton and ("Toe-Sucker") Dickie Morris dialed up Dole as the Chump of the Year a year and a half before the election.
That was what Slick spent all his Chinese reptile money on -- focus-group and test-marketing work out in the "C" media markets (adspeak for Hicktown, Sticks in the Woods, and Gomerville: what they call us the rest of the time) to determine who was the weakest, chumpiest GOP RiNO Slick could run against. Dole was their Chumpathon winner -- and their MSM allies like Jonathan Alter began a 6-month campaign to help old Bob get the nomination.
Dole should be grateful the 'Rats found him useful; otherwise, all he'd ever be remembered for would be his American Express and blue-pill ads. That, and passing tax bills to nullify Ronnie Reagan's tax cuts.
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