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Dole assails Gingrich in plea to conservatives

by Joel McDurmon on Jan 27, 2012

Former Senator and once GOP presidential nominee Bob Dole has “issued a scathing statement Thursday blasting Newt Gingrich for being a ‘one-man-band who rarely took advice.’” CNN reports,

In an open letter to conservatives distributed by Romney’s campaign, Dole said he personally took steps to assist the former House speaker pay off a penalty levied by the House Ethics Committee.

“In 1997 a number of House members wanted to throw him out as Speaker,” Dole wrote. “But he hung on until after the 1998 elections when the writing was on the wall. His mounting ethics problems caused him to resign in early 1999. I know whereof I speak as I helped establish a line of credit of $150,000 to help Newt pay off the fine for his ethics violations. In the end, he paid the fine with money from other sources.” . . .

“If Gingrich is the nominee it will have an adverse impact on Republican candidates running for county, state, and federal offices,” Dole said. “Hardly anyone who served with Newt in Congress has endorsed him and that fact speaks for itself. He was a one-man-band who rarely took advice. It was his way or the highway.” . . .

“Gingrich had a new idea every minute and most of them were off the wall,” Dole said. “He loved picking a fight with Bill Clinton because he knew this would get the attention of the press. This and a myriad of other specifics helped to topple Gingrich in 1998.” . . .

In his letter, Dole placed a measure of blame on Gingrich for the loss.

“In my run for the presidency in 1996 the Democrats greeted me with a number of negative TV ads and in every one of them Newt was in the ad. He was very unpopular and I am not only certain that this did not help me, but that it also cost House seats that year.”

The report adds that Dole endorsed Romney last December, is currently a Romney supporter, and this open letter is being distributed by the Romney campaign.

So now, Bush Sr., Bob Dole, and John McCain have all endorsed Romney. This means all living GOP presidential losers agree: Romney is our guy.

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14 Comments

  1. Sounds like the Establishment's plan went too far. It's coming back to bite them. Gingrich is an establishment figure; the establishment just doesn't want him in the White House. They would rather have Romney. Because Gingrich knows the establishment's playbook, he knew how to turn things around. Now, people like Dole have to come out and make an attempt to stop him.

    For real though, they brought out Dole? Is that all they got? If Chris Christie can't stop Gingrich, why would Dole? Dole's irrelevent to the people.

    −Ducky
    • Dole is also a liar. Newt Gingrich was cleared of any and all ethics violations. As a matter of fact, Dole lent him the money to pay the legal fees, not fine, for this charade. Newt could have taken it out of his campaign funds, but felt it would be wrong. This was a witch hunt started by the Dems and RINOS because Newt got Speaker Jim Wright, a real crook, thrown out. As fo DeLay, Newt opposed him because of his crooked dealings. DeLay is currently out on bail awaiting trial for his thievery. The RNC are a bunch of cannibals, which is what Newt called them when he resigned from the House. They are just itching to give RINO Romney the nomination, thus insuring Obama stay in the WH. Welcome to Communist America folks

      −stillmoral
  2. Dole is a rino, weak and now pathetic! He was all for John McAmnesty, another rino, enough said! Romney is a liar and a socialist! His dirty attacks, many not true or highly distorted, make me sick. I don’t see him as wanting to help this country, I see him as someone who just wants to be a powerful president and do what he wants and not the people! He’s always got that swarmy smile on his face and now we find out that his advisors are bigger rino’s than he is. They were Christs advisors? Hell no, we don’t need another rino like Christ!

    −Kris
  3. Its still a long time until the election and the way its going the Repubs are going to blow it with or without Newt, he is so busy getting his foot out of his mouth it is like he is trying to lose. Santorum showed more grit in last Fla. debate and I was embarrassed for Romney and Gingrich last night, if my kids had acted like that there would have been woodshed time involved!! STICK TO THE ISSUES AND STOP ALL THE BICKERING ALREADY!!

    −lucky7m
    • You seem to forget that Romney is the one who started all the attacks, lies and distortions. Newt was only defending himself. The Republican establishment are scum and are handing the election to Obama.

      −stillmoral
      • I honestly have not forgotten I am just aggravated that they are still dragging each other around I support Newt a heck of a lot more than the rest that is why it irritates me so bad, this election is his to lose. Romney is just another politician just like what we always get because he has a lot of money to throw at his candidacy, No I support Newt on his policies right up to his immigration issue and thats where I get off, but we can still put a lid on some of the wild ideas Newt gets, we are still a Republic unless Obozo gets another 4.

        −lucky7m
      • Well I agree with you. The RINOS are terrified of Newt. I go along with absolutely everything he has said, but I have misgivings about his immigration stance. However. listen to this video. Georgia and Alabama are going to throw Obama off the ballot. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hxx33V4WuY&fe

        −stillmoral
  4. Sounds to me that when members of the Republican elite establishment come out against Newt; it is the best endorsement he could get. He also needs to begin spreading the message that we need to take back the Senate and increase our advantage in the house by electing true conservatives to both houses.

    −R. Cook
  5. It was the left of center, RINO Republican leaders which gave us pusillanimous Bob Dole as a liberal Republican candidate with his rabid anti-Southern running mate, Jack Kemp, ensuring that Bill Clinton would continue as the deviate, disgraced President. These miscreant losers now want to install another northern socialist (Romney) like themselves, one that is distasteful to the South, and without the South, cannot win the Presidential election.

    −Ithamar
  6. I frankly don't care if you post my comment or not. But it is getting tiresome of spending time with a post to have your administrator waste my effort "approving" it though my post never contain any profanity and speak nothing but verifiable truth!

    −Ithamar
    • I've seen the same thing under the exact same conditions, and thought only the liberal blog sites censored those with views that didn't agree with what they were trying to propagandize, but have seen it on this site too. But the worse site for censoring one's ideas and point of view, that may not agree with their own, is Vision2America, for if you disagree with any thing Gary DeMar espouses, they censor everything you say, whether it be about him or not, and I too never use profanity or personal attacks, but simple points of view that may be opposite of what they are trying to promote, so it never sees the light of day on their site. These sites are hyocritical and no different from the liberal sites, have a propagandized agenda, and protect it. Just another mind control game for those who have weak minds, and will follow what they champion, and want to happen.

      −Randy131
  7. Dole should know about the head of the ticket causing other Republicans to lose their seats in Congress, for that's exactly what he did. Dole also was against, and said the same about, Ronald Reagan, but proved to be just the opposite, especially the re-election of Ronald Reagan. Why people would listen to such a big 'LOSER' as Dole, is beyond me, and one should question why Dole, who is supposedly retired from politicis because of his sound defeat, would even raise who stupid head and get involved in this most important election. Dole won his elections through the pity of what he went trough in WW II, and he played to that theme in everyone of his elections, until it became old and people got tired of it, and he then lost big time and took down many Republicans with him. It's one thing to endorse a candidiate, and a complete other to attack his opponent, making accusations that can't be proven, and is paramount to 'Slinging Mud', for which it seems is the only way Dole's man Romney can win the Republican nomination, but will surely lose to Obama and the Democrats, who are experts, and much more proficient at doing the same.

    −Randy131
  8. the dynamic and energetic Bob Dole stretches his neck from his tortoise shell to attack the other establishment candidate! As if there is 2 cents worth of difference! Might as well keep Obama, they'll maintain the exact same track and dazzle us with bullshit. IN the meantime, government is greatly expanding it's powers, destroying the dollar, the economy, YOU NAME IT, and setting up a police state. They've already begun their attempt to federalize all police agencies in all the states, erasing t he safety buffers against tyranny.
    If Bob Dole, or Hannity, or Limbaugh, or Coulter, or O'Reilly had any nads or integrity, they'd reject the status quo talking points meant to hypnotize us into complacency and support Ron Paul. We need real chance, real soon, or we're going to be severely damaged.

    −boomer8
  9. Dole? Really?

    when it was his turn to run for POTUS (the GOP seems not to chose the best candidate but rather the ones with party 'seniority.') he blasted the very institutions that he had been a part of for over 40 years!

    There is NOTHING Bob Dole can say that matters to this voter.

    −Gringo Infidel

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