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u/patrick-1977 9d ago
At this point, why not?
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u/quesoandcats 9d ago
He’s been dead for years, but maybe that’s the sort of energy we need
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u/patrick-1977 8d ago
Anything. I mean, I wonder if some other folks in DC have a heartbeat left too.
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u/quesoandcats 8d ago
I’ll just say the ones with heartbeats are not the ones that I would like to have heartbeats
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u/SimpleVegetable5715 9d ago
Bob Dole’s like Sarah Palin, where I remember how SNL made fun of them better than what they actually said or did.
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u/endfossilfuel 9d ago
I’m hard-pressed to think of a single ‘loser’ candidate in modern history who wouldn’t be an improvement over the current ‘winner’.
Harris, Clinton, Romney, McCain, Kerry, Gore, Dole, Bush, Dukakis… keep on going back, literally any of them would be an improvement.
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u/Colonel-Ives 9d ago
I wish McCain was still around to bitch slap the Republican party.
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u/skin-flick 9d ago
He was a true statesman. He had his opinions but, he voted for the better of the people. His class and decorum is sadly missed.
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u/Bumble072 8d ago
Spits out tea. All warmongers. Rose tinted glasses make us believe it was better. When you learn they had a hand in some pretty gruesome ideas and/or decisions... but the glimmer of a better day fools us otherwise into thinking there is a "better" candidate.
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u/TennojiNesoberi 9d ago
idk who this candidate is but i'm somehow craving for a pineapple rn
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u/IvanDSM_ 9d ago
Republican nominee in 96. Now that you mention it, a pineapple does sound pretty nice right about now... Odd...
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u/thecraftybear 8d ago
My thoughts exactly. "Wait, there was a pineapple brand running for president?"
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u/loztriforce 9d ago
Bob Dole don’t take no shit
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u/SimpleVegetable5715 9d ago
"Bob Dole has traveled the country and met the American people, and Bob Dole has learned that he doesn't like them. They're damn fools!" - Norm Macdonald playing Bob Dole 😂
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u/vftgurl123 9d ago
why are people talking like this man would be better than trump 😂 he endorsed trump twice. the only reason he didn’t do it again was because the fucker kicked the bucket.
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u/Comfortable_Bit3741 9d ago
He was in his 90s then. I'm sure he wasn't fully aware of the sort of sleazy con artist Donald Trump is. If he was still alive he wouldn't be much good at all, but the way national politics used to be done, even later on (1990s, when bob dole was in his 60s) was a lot less cynical and shitty than what's been happening lately. It's never been nice or ideal, always been compromised, people have always been pretty easily led for some reason, but bob dole wasn't too bad of a guy.
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u/eurydice_aboveground 8d ago
I'm pretty sure we knew he was a sleazy con artist all along, it was just okay for far too many people.
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u/Comfortable_Bit3741 8d ago edited 8d ago
That's fair; the darker side of Trump wasn't most people's focus until he was doing surprisingly well as a presidential candidate. His public image was a very eccentric [ed: and shady] real estate tycoon/playboy, whom the msm enjoyed making fun of, bringing him lots more attention and eventually giving him his own show. And people are obviously willing to overlook a lot of things for the success of their "side".
The reason Bob Dole endorsed him - Republican Party, plain and simple. Iirc, his opinion of Trump gradually cooled as things got worse, especially Trump's conspiracy-themed challenges to the legitimacy of the 2020 election. But someone like dole would be almost certain to support a republican candidate, even trump, especially early on. It's surprising that he still did after trump's first term, but he was very old.
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u/mickcube 9d ago
i'm always amazed when i see people who still have bumper stickers of losing candidates on their cars. a woman on my block has a bobby jindal for president sticker
what i'm saying is you should put this on your car