Sad old Bob Dole

There he goes again . . .

” he (Dole) says… “today, spending is outrageous.”

He’s a champion of campaign-finance reform. “Whoever’s elected — well, except Hillary — we gotta have campaign reform and stop some of these Super PACs.”  

Isn’t Jeb, whose Super PAC has raised, and is in the process of spending, over $100 million, particularly guilty of perverting the campaign process, in Dole’s eyes? 

The money, he says, “hasn’t helped much.” So then, why the need for reform? “There’s just too much money in all the campaigns,” he says. 

The above is from a National Review interview. Sometimes, even heroes should retire to the sidelines.

It seems to us that whoever in the GOP establishment thinks that 91 year old genuine war hero and former woefully inept presidential candidate, Bob Dole, is an asset to the campaign of a would-be Republican presidential nominee, ought to be fired for two reasons:

1) exceptional political incompetence, and,

2) elder abuse

Dole’s comments apparently reflect the political philosophy of today’s establishment GOP, if there is one. The full interview is a disjointed, often incoherent summary of the “strategists” who provided the former Senator with his talking points.

One can hope that Mr. Dole won’t be called upon to do any on-air ads for the Republican nominee as he has in recent campaigns. Even Viagra has dropped the elder steersman from their promotional ads.

From National Review: Down on Jeb’s Prospects, Bob Dole Says Marco Rubio is His Second Choice

— Bob Dole likes South Carolina. “It was South Carolina that put me over the top in 1996,” he recalls in a lengthy phone interview.  

 “If it’s not Jeb, I hope it’s Rubio,” he tells me. 

Last month, Dole made waves when he said that he would prefer Donald Trump to Cruz as the Republican nominee. 

 “I hope Rubio finishes second,” he says. “We have to have a nominee, Republicans, who can bring the party together and reach out to moderates and independents and not just the far right-wing. I don’t know whether Trump could bring the party together,” he says. “I’ve never met him, but he’s probably a good person. I never meet rich people…” He trails off. 

Bob, for the good of the party, at least define that mass you fear “the far right-wing”  and how their positions are different from what Rubio claims his to be. After all, he ran as one of “those” TEA Party candidates.  Of course the debate is largely about sincerity — believability — doing what one says one will do.

The NRO interview continued regarding rich contributors:

 Surely he met many of them when he was campaigning for president, I tell him. “I met as many as I could, asked ‘em for money,” he says, but “today, spending is outrageous.” He’s a champion of campaign-finance reform. “Whoever’s elected — well, except Hillary — we gotta have campaign reform and stop some of these Super PACs.”  

Sort of the “I had integrity but they don’t . . . money for me but not for thee … billionaire candidate preferred to those who poorer people want to support … approach to campaign finance reform. Or, the return to the good old days when the still dominant liberal media  had the upper hand to determine the outcome of elections.  Restrictions on spending means candidates are more vulnerable to what the liberal media says about them.

One  question from Veritas for Mr. Dole – how much is too much with so much at stake for the country? With 250 million people or so in the voting age population, is $10 dollars or so too much per person for the entire campaign cycle?

DLH with R Mall

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