Bob Dole Warns of ‘Cataclysmic’ Losses With Ted Cruz, and Says Donald Trump Would Do Better
Source: New York Times
Bob Dole, the former Kansas senator and 1996 Republican presidential nominee, has never been fond of Senator Ted Cruz of Texas. But in an interview Wednesday, Mr. Dole said that the party would suffer cataclysmic and wholesale losses if Mr. Cruz was the nominee, and that Donald J. Trump would fare better.... I dont know how often youve 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.
I dont know how hes going to deal with Congress, he said. Nobody likes him.... The remarks by Mr. Dole reflect wider unease with Mr. Cruz among members of the Republican establishment, but few leading members of the party have been as candid and cutting.
If hes the nominee, were 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 hes kind of a mainstream conservative.... He said he had met Mr. Trump only once, 30 years ago. But he has toned down his rhetoric, he added. As for Mr. Cruz, he said: Therell be wholesale losses if hes the nominee. Our party is not that far right... We are conservatives, we are traditional Republican conservatives. And then, of course, he doesnt have any friends in Congress. He called the leader of the Republicans a liar on the Senate floor.... Mr. Doles comments came a day after the governor of Iowa, Terry E. Branstad, said in an interview that Mr. Cruzs opposition to federal ethanol mandates would erode his lead in polls heading into the states caucuses on Feb. 1.
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iandhr
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(11,841 posts)emulatorloo
(44,096 posts)Still In Wisconsin
(4,450 posts)I hope so because I think we beat Cruz and destroy Trump.
Xipe Totec
(43,889 posts)Still In Wisconsin
(4,450 posts)Xipe Totec
(43,889 posts)MrScorpio
(73,630 posts)Right?
Yupster
(14,308 posts)It must be conceded that on the subject of cataclysmic losses, Bob Dole is an expert.
mpcamb
(2,869 posts)Hated his politics.
Contempt for his Nixon-like use of the third person when talking about himself.
Still, liked that he never made any deal out of extensive WWII injuries and wanted the best for the US.
niyad
(113,205 posts)In 1976, Dole ran unsuccessfully for Vice President on a ticket headed by President Gerald Ford. Incumbent Vice President Nelson Rockefeller had withdrawn from consideration the previous fall, and Dole was chosen. Dole stated during the Vice Presidential debate with Walter Mondale, "I figured it up the other day: If we added up the killed and wounded in Democrat wars in this century, it would be about 1.6 million Americans enough to fill the city of Detroit".[17] The remark backfired.
lastlib
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(16,829 posts)Attorney in Texas
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L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)Excellent choice, crazier than Goldwater and no experience too > > > > Can't wait until the Fall! [center]
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