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Jan
26

Bob Dole is very, very disappointed with you people

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I have not been critical of Newt Gingrich but it is now time to take a stand before it is too late. If Gingrich is the nominee it will have an adverse impact on Republican candidates running for county, state, and federal offices. 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.

Gingrich served as Speaker from 1995 to 1999 and had trouble within his own party. By 1997 a number of House Republican members wanted to throw him out as Speaker.

Sorry to have to say it, Bob, but from all I can see he’s pissing off all the right people, now just as then. You establishment, “moderate,” go-along-get-along liberal enablers didn’t like him then, and the fact that you don’t like him now is not something I consider problematic. At all. And advice on “electability” from someone who got trounced as badly as you did is probably something that ought to be kept to ones’ self.

NRO’s nonstop Gingrich bashing and Romney rah-rahing is really starting to try my patience, to tell you the truth. This bit from Dole really takes the cake:

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 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, and I’m not certain he knew either.

So there you have it, folks: not only did Dole lose because of Newt, but Newt is insane to boot, showing up at campaign HQ to stagger around with his ice bucket, reeking of last night’s cheap muscatel and muttering to himself like a dingy old wino.

And NRO is gleefully providing a forum for this drivel. Vote for Romney, because FEAR TEH CRAAAZY MAN!

I don’t know how much lower they can sink, but I’m sadly confident we’re gonna find out. And with each successful plumbing of newer depths, my resolve not to vote for Romney under any circumstances whatsoever is redoubled.

Update! Via TB in the comments, the story on the ice bucket. No wonder Dole didn’t get it. And still doesn’t.

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7 comments

  1. Mr. Lion says:

    1/26/2012 at 4:58 PM (UTC -5)

    Looks like the establishment is truly terrified of Newt. That should tell you all you need to know, right there.
  2. TB says:

    1/26/2012 at 6:16 PM (UTC -5)

    The rest of the story on the ice bucket, at National Review.
  3. meiji_man says:

    1/26/2012 at 7:54 PM (UTC -5)

    I think they've decided they would rather have the game continue, with Obama in the Whitehouse. Then to have someone come in and upset their apple cart. It's like some sort of Stockholm syndrome with the Republican Elites.
    No Check that, it's like rolling into a domestic call where the abused wife attacks the officers when they try and take her husband away.

    (need to spread that meme)

  4. derfel cadarn says:

    1/26/2012 at 9:48 PM (UTC -5)

    I do not like the Newt but I like getting lectured by this old fossil even less. It seems the choice is between a womanizing war monger with delusions of granduer and a RINO flip flopper with no coherent plastform other then to expand government. If only we had a man of conviction,integrity with a habit of telling the truth,think of the trhings that might be accomplished in his vision o freedom and liberty That is what is scaring the shit out of the Republican elites.
  5. Randy Rager says:

    1/26/2012 at 10:58 PM (UTC -5)

    Bob Dole?

    Gads, what a loser.

  6. Lost My Cookies says:

    1/27/2012 at 10:12 AM (UTC -5)

    I don't recall Newt being a disastrous and erratic leader until he was undone by the Clinton machine in 96. In fact, up until impeachment, he was the "savior of the GOP" and the "idea man".

    I'm not sure if the country has the temperament for a Newt presidency, but Newt's a leader, an Idea man, he gets people worked up and excited and he drives some people craaaazy.. Romney is a manager, he's not going to effect change, he's going to flatten the curve, and everyone will feel better for a bit. Romney's Michael Spindler to Newt's Steve Jobs.

    If I have to choose, I'll vote for the guy who makes people mad over the guy who puts them to sleep.

  7. Rip VanBullwinkle says:

    1/27/2012 at 1:02 PM (UTC -5)

    Hasn't Dole been disappointed with us since 1996?

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