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.

[wagglebee]

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.

This is possibly your greatest post EVER P-M!