Reply #44: Don't you remember 1988? [View All]

[Yupster]

It wasn't that long ago.

Bush hit Dole with a blizzard of ads in New Hampshire listing all the taxes Dole voted to raise over his years in the senate. There was some quote about Bob Dole once called himself or someone once called him "the tax collector for the welfare state."

Anyway, the low tax Republicans in New Hampshire back in 1988 left Dole after the negative ads and the night of the primary Dole snarled into a mike on tv news that Bush needs to "stop lying about my record." That was the end of the Dole campaign.

Dole was way ahead on delegates? Don't know what that means. The only delegates chosen before New Hampsghire were the Iowa caucuses and as a neighbor from Kansas, it was no surprise Dole won there.