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Bob Dole: Republicans Should Put Up A Sign 'Closed For Repairs'

Posted by Ellen -7859.80pc on May 26, 2013 · Flag

In honor of Memorial Day, Fox News Sunday conducted an interview with "America's veteran," former Senator and former presidential candidate Bob Dole. Interestingly, host Chris Wallace led Dole right into his criticisms of today's Republican party. And at the beginning of the segment, surely recorded after Wallace knew what Dole had said, Wallace said Dole is "as perceptive" as ever.

After discussing the dysfunction in Washington, the discussion turned to the state of the GOP.

WALLACE: What do you think of your party, of the Republicans today? 

DOLE: I think they ought to put a sign on the national committee doors: “closed for repairs” until New Year’s Day next year — and spend that time going over ideas and positive agendas. 

WALLACE: You describe the GOP of your generation as Eisenhower Republicans, moderate Republicans. Could people like Bob Dole, even Ronald Reagan — could you make it in today’s Republican Party. 

DOLE: I doubt it. Reagan couldn’t have made it. Certainly Nixon couldn’t have made it, cause he had ideas. We might have made it, but I doubt it.

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Sandman2 commented 2013-05-28 03:01:09 -0400 · Flag
Well said @patrick tolle
Bemused commented 2013-05-27 16:16:46 -0400 · Flag
@bob: what you describe is very similar to what I read in Margaret Atwood’s book “The Handsmaid’s Tale”. Terrifying.
As Joseph West wrote: the irony is that these same people go constantly on and on about the Muslims doing those very same things!
Homeboy Halligan commented 2013-05-27 15:33:46 -0400 · Flag
What Dole is saying is that the real loudmouth assholes like Hannity and Limbaugh should be publicly rejected by the GOP so as to never again infest the White House as they did during the disastrous Bush years.
Kevin Koster commented 2013-05-27 14:08:31 -0400 · Flag
Dole continues to be a very sly politician, even 17 years out of office. Asked about Newt Gingrich, he gives him the expected praise for being smart, and then notes how Newt could never contain himself after scrapping his way to the top. And Dole throws in one pretty sharp dig – “I’m glad he wasn’t our nominee” with a little grin. That’s an unsubtle dig – that Dole crowned his career by getting a Presidential nomination but Gingrich, who fancied himself more powerful than Dole, will never be able to say that. Cruel. True, but cruel.
Joseph West commented 2013-05-27 13:52:41 -0400 · Flag
William King wrote,
“The Republican Party and the TEA Party are dominated and controlled by Christian Reconstructionists called Dominionists. They are theocrats who wish to replace our American Republic with a Christian fascist state. For the past 30 years they have sought to legislate Old Testament Levitical Law, more commonly called Biblical Law, as the law of the land.”

And the truly ironic thing about this is these are the SAME people who raise the biggest fuss over the prospect of “Shariah law” and they are just too fucking blind to see how their desires are NO different from all those “evil Muslims” trying to take over the country.
truman commented 2013-05-27 12:01:28 -0400 · Flag
GOP closed indefinitely. Contact the nearest teabagger office for details.
Anne-claire Souza commented 2013-05-27 10:44:29 -0400 · Flag
My sign would say “Closed indefinately due to insanity”.
doors17 commented 2013-05-26 22:24:44 -0400 · Flag
My favorite Bob Dole quote comes from looking at a picture of a reunion of three ex-presidents and pointing at each one he said…

Carter…See No Evil

Ford…Hear No Evil

Nixon…Evil
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Interestingly, host Chris Wallace said Dole is "as perceptive" as ever.








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