Bob Dole: Bob Dole Sees "Cataclysmic" Losses This Year If Ted Cruz Beats Donald Trump

Hotair ^ | 1/20/2016 | Allahpundit

[JSDude1]

At some point during the past week I entered a Twilight Zone episode where constitutional conservative Sarah Palin thinks Donald Trump is the future of America and elder statesmen Bob Dole thinks Ted Cruz, more so than the third-party-flirting former Democrat Trump, is the one with the loyalty problem to the GOP.

Incidentally, didn’t this guy endorse Jeb Bush? Why is he talking up Trump here?

“I question his allegiance to the party,” Mr. Dole said of Mr. Cruz. “I don’t know how often you’ve heard him say the word ‘Republican’ — not very often.” Instead, Mr. Cruz uses the word “conservative,” Mr. Dole said, before offering up a different word for Mr. Cruz: “extremist.”…

But Mr. Dole said he thought Mr. Trump could “probably work with Congress, because he’s, you know, he’s got the right personality and he’s kind of a deal-maker.”…

“If he’s the nominee, we’re going to have wholesale losses in Congress and state offices and governors and legislatures,” said Mr. Dole, who served in the House and Senate for 35 years and won the Iowa caucuses twice. He described Mr. Cruz as having falsely “convinced the Iowa voters that he’s kind of a mainstream conservative.”

The only person who could stop Mr. Cruz from capturing the nomination? “I think it’s Trump,” Mr. Dole said, adding that Mr. Trump was “gaining a little.”…

Mr. Dole repeatedly said he was strongly supporting Jeb Bush, the former governor of Florida, although he acknowledged that Mr. Bush has had trouble gaining traction.

[SWAMP-C1PHER]

Omg I remember those.

Time to give up the ghost, bob.

[vmivol00]

Dole is an expert in cataclysmic losses.

[Paladin2]

BD’s campaign was catasclysmic.

[Mastador1]

Tell me, did he start out with “I’m Bob Dole, and Bob Dole says........”

[Iron Munro]

The best source for advice on winning strategies always comes from losers.

/s

[Carry_Okie]

Trump can just Executive Order it all the way!

After all, who needs a Constitution!

Oh, wait...

[editor-surveyor]

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Bub Dull telling us who he fears!

(and it sure is not Trump)

Trump is now as establishment as anyone can get.

[editor-surveyor]

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How Episcopalian!

[editor-surveyor]

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The price of Charmin will be doing the “Dead Cat Bounce.”

[P-Marlowe]

Trump has given me the opportunity to use that word in a sentence, something I have always wanted to do.

But first I had to actually find a genuine antidisestablismentarianist.

Trump fits the bill. Like the Anti-Christ pretends to be Christ, an antidisestablishmentarianist pretends to be a disestablishmentarian. But under the surface he is an establishmentarian.

[Smokin' Joe]

Is he saying that Republicans would rather let a Hillary or Sanders win than 'hold their noses' and vote for a Conservative?

If so, the Republic is toast.

[LoneRangerMassachusetts]

I actually voted for this loser once

I still can't understand how Mr. Excitement lost.

[V K Lee]

Red face here! Actually cast a vote for this flaccid individual! :-/

[catnipman]

BTW folks, yes, Bob Dole IS still alive. Here's a recent picture to prove it:

[Shugee]

Sometimes there are no GOOD choices.

[ExSoldier]

Good thing this was first posted at HOT AIR because that is exactly what this is comprised of.

[DoughtyOne]

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Thank you.

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[V K Lee]

Yes, either famine or feast. Far different from Dole, this election we’ve two fine choices and decisions are still difficult.

[Jimmy Valentine]

There is a time when all public figures need to exit the world stage. Bob Dole is one such.

[teeman8r]

the gains that the tea party has made in government cannot be denied... and the growing trend will continue as the GOPe denies it is happening.

Cruz is coming under a lot of fire from everyone but his supporters... they will stay the course and grow with every attack from the elitists who claim he is nasty. he was sent there to make the establishment uneasy, and he is doing what his constituents want.