New York Magazine Asks ‘Is John McCain Bob Dole?’»
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/04/14/dole-like-mccain/“If McCain is no longer the bracing iconoclast he was in 2000, who the hell is he?” asks John Heilemann in New York Magazine today. The answer, according to at least one GOP operative, is that McCain has “morphed into Bob Dole.”
According to “an operative who worked for Dole,” one commonality beyond biography and temperament that McCain and Dole share is that like Dole in ‘96, McCain currently refuses to talk about the pressing issues facing the country:
Republicans cite deeper, more worrying commonalities between McCain and Dole. “You’d fly around with Dole in 1996 and try to talk message, and all he wanted to know was who was going to be up onstage with him at the next event,” recalls an operative who worked for Dole in his pre-Viagra days. “Same deal now with McCain. He has no message outside of Iraq. What’s John McCain’s health plan? What’s his tax plan? What’s his high-tech plan? No one in a million years can tell you.”
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When he starts talking about himself in the third person, look out. (Bob Dole used to say "Bob Dole thinks this. and Bob Dole says that."
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