On the nose Frank Conniff tweet:

[tblue37]

Bob Dole's death marks the passing of a lost bygone era when the Republican party wasn't all that much different than it is now.

Link to tweet

[obamanut2012]

1. k & r

[dchill]

2. TV's Frank strikes again!

[PlanetBev]

3. I burst out laughing when I read this

To say it was spot on was an understatement. It was downright lethal.

[The Magistrate]

4. Cold But Fair, Ma'am

[agingdem]

5. the party of Jesse Helms/Strom Thurmond/Trent Lott

and who can forget sainted Ronald Reagan and his states-rights bullshit...all "grand guys' in the Grand Old Party...and unlike the unfiltered GOP hate filled vomit spewers of today, Bob Dole never said the unconscionable out loud...attaboy

[Caliman73]

6. That is a point that a lot of people, even here at DU, miss.

The difference between the Republican Party of the 1980's and now is basically that they have stopped using the thin veneer of "civility". This is the same Republican Party that was okay with Reagan going behind Carter's back with Iran (a known state sponsor of terror) to undermine Carter's presidency. They were fine with waging dirty wars all across Central America and selling arms to Iran. The mask started slipping in the 1990's and 2000's when Gingrich, Hastert, and De Lay started calling Democrats the enemy and going scorched earth.

Dole is a throwback to a time when the Republicans were still trying to put on a "good face"... nothing more.

[Pantagruel]

9. Lee Atwater, Manafort

and Roger Stone came up with Nixon and served every subsequent GOP regime . Follow the dirty tricksters .

[Caliman73]

12. Rumsfeld, Cheney, Ailes, and Buchanan too

The Nixon administration was a veritable gold mine for the worst people in Conservative politics.

When Reagan was ready to assume the mantle, Poppy Bush (no saint either) was horrified and wanted to defend the vestiges of "Great State Republicanism" from the barbarian Reagan.

[Skittles]

16. they dropped the dog whistle for a bull horn

that is the only difference I see

[Caliman73]

17. They are less articulate as well.

There were definitely people within the Republican Party who were more articulate and seemed to understand history and politics. I bet the Dole could probably define Communism, unlike most of the Party today.

[Skittles]

18. agreed

I honestly see so few decent republicans now, I consider them a party of radicals.

[TxGuitar]

7. Whenever DUers post about how bipartisan it used to be

I wonder if they were born in the 1740s or something. The Republican party has been this way I since can remember (born in 66). They just get to say it out loud now.

[Solly Mack]

8. No shit.

[Javaman]

10. I'll just leave this here. Bob Dole endorses Donald Trump

https://www.cnn.com/2016/05/06/politics/bob-dole-endorses-donald-trump/index.html

Former Kansas senator and 1996 Republican nominee Bob Dole endorsed Donald Trump for president on Friday, calling for the GOP to unite around Trump in order to defeat Hillary Clinton, the likely Democratic nominee.

Dole’s support gives the GOP presumptive nominee the support of another party elder on a day when other top Republicans announced their opposition. Trump inconspicuously announced the endorsement earlier on Friday at a rally in Omaha, Nebraska, as he ticked off the names of several prominent Republicans who have come around to his candidacy since he became the party’s presumptive nominee earlier this week.

“The voters of our country have turned out in record numbers to support Mr. Trump. It is important that their votes be honored and it is time that we support the party’s presumptive nominee, Donald J. Trump,” Dole said in a statement released by Trump’s campaign. “I plan to attend the RNC convention in Cleveland to show my support for our party and our ticket, as I have done my entire life. We must unite as a party to defeat Hillary Clinton.”

In the same statement, Trump thanked Dole and said “he is a wonderful man and it is a great honor to have his support.”

more at link...


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never liked dole, he always struck me as smarmy.

[XanaDUer2]

11. Kick n reccd nt

[Wounded Bear]

13. They did use to be better at faking being rational and shit...

[gratuitous]

14. The Toady Show had a revolting retrospective on Dole

A near-total whitewash of Dole's record as a nasty piece of work.

[Coventina]

15. Love that guy!! n/t