[Diamond]

"If he's the nominee, we're going to have wholesale losses in Congress..."

What difference, at this point, would it make, Mr. Dole?

[bIlluminati]

In 1976, Bob Dole was the Republican Vice-Presidential candidate. We lost Ohio by 9000 votes, but got slaughtered in Congress.

In 1984, Reagan won in a historic landslide. Bob Dole became majority leader of the Senate in 1985. Dole led the fight for the biggest tax increase in history in 1986, and the Republicans were slaughtered in 1986, losing the Senate.

In 1994, the Republicans in the Senate held strong against Bill and Hillary Clinton against nationalized health care, and the Republicans won a historic landslide in both the House and the Senate in 1994. Bob Dole ran for President in 1996, and completely destroyed any momentum for Republicans while getting stomped in 1996.

So why should conservatives and Republicans who want to win listen to Bob Dole for anything? Except to do the opposite, of course.

[mrsmel]

Exactly, what has the GOP done that the ‘rats wouldn’t have? The ‘rats know it, and publicly gloat about it, the GOP must be believing their own press about conservatives being uninformed. I’ve heard Harry Reid himself express his satisfaction at gettng everything on the left’s agenda that they wanted, without even having the majority in one house of Congress.