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right, he hasn't come in "second" on a past primary cycle. That's how "they" get the experience (and then proceed to lose...)
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Quit yer b*tching and whining and GET INVOLVED!!
Bob Dole was a great president.
Bob Dole should totally be lecturing others on electability.
Bob Dole likes to hear Bob Dole say Bob Dole.
Bob Dole!
Well, let's not forget that he probably learned a lot. I mean, that uppity inexperienced Obama fellow never stood a chance against the impressive, experienced line up of the GOP.
Rand Paul Fires Back at Dole: Sometimes Lack of D.C. Experience Can Be Good
Bob Dole recently said that likely 2016 contenders Rand Paul, Marco Rubio, and “extreme right-wing” Ted Cruz lack the experience to be able to run for president in two years. Paul did not call out Dole, but in Chicago Tuesday he indirectly responded to the former Republican presidential candidate, saying that sometimes a lack of Washington experience can be a good thing.
He said when people are stuck in Washington too long, they become “career politicians” who get “beaten down by the system and are so part of the system that they can’t see all the problems of the system.” Paul made it clear he never joined the Republican chorus of criticisms in 2008 that Barack Obama was too inexperienced to be president, because he thinks there’s something too be said for a fresh perspective in Washington.
“Maybe you can have too much (experience as well) in the sense that I think that over long periods of time, people lose their zeal for change in Washington and they become part of the system.”And whatever else you could say about him, it’s hard to mistake Rand Paul for someone who’s become part of the system. So far.
Establishment must be desperate if they are dragging Dole out of mothballs to do a hatchet job.
Ya Bob Dole probably thinks you have to be old enough to do viagra commercials.
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Ahh, Bob Dole, the Senator from ADM
I'm shocked that the guy who got his turn in the GOP spotlight just by being the next "old guy in line" thinks this way.
Dole is stuck in the past. That just isn't the way a viable party can run now.
Sure, you can argue that Rand Paul, Jeb Bush, Mitt Romney and Scott Walker have less political experience than Obama had when he ran for President. I see those arguments. They don't mean much too me, especially since Paul and Bush grew up in political families. Romney even had a politician for a father.
The truth is, everyone cannot be a career politician. Some people want to do more useful and helpful things with their lives.
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Bob Dole saw Obama win with exactly the same amount of experience Rand Paul has now and Bob Dole's telling Republicans that they shouldn't nominate someone with the exact same blend of experience and outsider status that won? Bob Dole doesn't want the Republicans to win the White House. Bob Dole didn't want the GOP to win it from Clinton in '96 because if Bob Dole did Bob Dole would have refused the nomination. And Bob Dole obviously doesn't want the Republicans to win now or Bob Dole wouldn't be telling Republicans not to do what is proven to work right now.
Bob Dole had shut Bob Dole's mouth for nearly twenty years, and I think I liked Bob Dole better that way.
Do you mean national political experience or something? Obama was in the IL State Senate for 3 terms.
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Sure, as a junior senator, Paul may not have certain levels of experience, but this was the same line that the GOP trotted out when Obama ran for office. And now he's in his second term.
You have a point. If Obama had been a doctor helping people instead of hanging in Springfield making Illinoisians miserable he might have had enough sense to drop Obamacare. So, no, Rand Paul can't claim experience equal to Obama's. Paul's is a damned sight more useful to the task.
As much as I want to detest Dole, I can't.
Not for the usual war-hero stuff... it's because in a primary debate in 1996 I heard him read the 10th Amendment on national TV.
It was the first time I'd ever heard a politician talk about the constitution in an antifederalist sense.
There are no crimes against people.
There are only crimes against the state.
And the state will never, ever choose to hold accountable its agents, because a thing can not commit a crime against itself.
shut up bob dole
I actually thought Bob Dole was dead.
Well, this settles that.
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Yea but Romney was super experienced...
It's just an opinion... man...
I did too. That was my first thought "Isn't he dead?" That should show how relevant he is.
Bob Dole will never die. Bob Dole was immortalized...
What I think about Bob Dole.
“[T]he enshrinement of constitutional rights necessarily takes certain policy choices off the table.” (Heller, 554 U.S., at ___, 128 S.Ct., at 2822.)
How long before "going liberal" replaces "going postal"?
I guess you're counting Obama's Illinois state positions. Fair enough.
I'd rather my "representatives" have less experience being dirty politicians; better chance they don't know how to screw their constituents to the max yet.
"WE ARE MERELY EXCHANGING LONG PROTEIN STRINGS. IF YOU CAN THINK OF A SIMPLER WAY, I'D LIKE TO HEAR IT."
There are no crimes against people.
There are only crimes against the state.
And the state will never, ever choose to hold accountable its agents, because a thing can not commit a crime against itself.
So was McCain. Dubya had no foreign policy experience..obviously.
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