Quote of the Day-Sen Dole: "Well, I'll say this: Romney looks like a president."

[kpete]

Quote of the Day
"Well, I'll say this: Romney looks like a president."

-- Former Sen. Bob Dole, in an interview with GQ, on his previously tepid endorsement of Mitt Romney.
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There's a spritely young flack sitting behind me and another one in a chair to my left, and so it is me and Bob Dole doing a show together, which apparently is what makes Bob Dole comfortable. "Romney came to my office," Dole says, "we had a good meeting, and I'm not a Gingrich fan, so..." He famously loathed Gingrich: "He's just difficult to work with. It's either Newt's way or the highway. He's got a lot of ideas. Some of them are good; not many. So it looked to me like it would be either Romney or Newt for the nomination, but just on its own, I thought he—well, I'll say this: Romney looks like a president."

It's always discomfiting to listen to people try to conjure any serious oomph when taking about Romney, and this moment is no exception. I make the point that Mitt Romney's background is different from Bob Dole's. "You're self-made," I say. "You embody the American Dream."

"I've never known a lot of rich people," he says. "It's not my bag."



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[nanabugg]

1. Ugh, that would mean rich, white and ignorant. nt

[MichiganVote]

2. Translation: white

[dionysus]

6. well, he does look like central casting's idea of President in a made for TV movie..

[MichiganVote]

7. Aging Ken Doll.

[dionysus]

8. pretty much

[MagickMuffin]

3. And a Fireman, and a Police officer, a banker; a regular Village People Member

Yep, Mitt looks like a lot of characters, too bad he doesn't show any character.

[pinboy3niner]

4. Serious RMoney oomph fail

I don't think the Romney campaign will be hiring Dole any time soon.

[Warren Stupidity]

5. Dole was neither a kook nor a tool of the oligarchs.

So why is he still a republican? I don't get the Nixon era remnants of the republican party. They have nothing in common with the radical wrecking ball of today. These were guys who fought in WWII, and believed in public goods and services provided by a functional government funded thought progressive taxation. Why don't they just get out?

[EOTE]

9. He was a tool of big-tobacco.

Granted, he may not be in bed with as many corporations as today's republican party, but he was willing to exchange the collective health of the nation for a few bucks. That seems pretty republican to me.

[BlueStater]

10. What the fuck does he think a president is supposed to look like?

We've had fat presidents, skinny presidents, short presidents, tall presidents, old presidents, young presidents, etc., etc.

You know what doesn't come to mind when I think of a president? A square-headed,, stiff, creepy douchebag. Sorry, Mitt.

[morningfog]

11. He's also looked like a cop and a firefighter and a father, though

he was never really any of those.

[Jack Rabbit]

12. Looks like a president? About whom have we heard that before?

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From Harding's thumbnail bio at WhiteHouse.gov:

An Ohio admirer, Harry Daugherty, began to promote Harding for the 1920 Republican nomination because, he later explained, "He looked like a President."

Daugherty became Harding's Attorney General and is listed among the most corrupt AG's in American history, along with John Mitchell, Edwin Meese and Alberto Gonzales.

Harding's administration is most notable for its corruption, with Teapot Dome being the administration's signature scandal. That scandal resulted in a prison sentence for Harding's interior secretary, Albert Fall. Other major scandals were centered in the Justice Department and the Bureau of Veterans' Affairs.

With Citizens United in place, we can pretty much expect a Teapot Dome-like scandal in the administration of the next corporate-favored president. The Republicans have raised corruption to a key political principle.