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I would wear it like a badge of honor
« on: January 21, 2016, 04:15:56 PM »
Bob Dole apparently doesn't like Ted Cruz.  The same Bob Dole that has endorsed Jeb! Bush...

https://www.yahoo.com/politics/bob-dole-ted-cruz-cataclysmic-154736208.html
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Re: I woudl wear it like a badge of honor
« Reply #1 on: January 21, 2016, 04:21:26 PM »
I used to have respect for SEN Dole.
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Re: I would wear it like a badge of honor
« Reply #2 on: January 21, 2016, 07:52:50 PM »
Quote from: wmenorr67 on January 21, 2016, 04:21:26 PM
I used to have respect for SEN Dole.
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Re: I would wear it like a badge of honor
« Reply #3 on: January 21, 2016, 08:09:18 PM »
I'm just amazed he's still giving political commentary. Most guys couldn't keep it up at his age.
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Re: I would wear it like a badge of honor
« Reply #4 on: January 21, 2016, 08:31:19 PM »
Quote from: dogmush on January 21, 2016, 08:09:18 PM
I'm just amazed he's still giving political commentary. Most guys couldn't keep it up at his age.

I see what you did there ...
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Re: I would wear it like a badge of honor
« Reply #5 on: January 21, 2016, 09:03:18 PM »
Quote from: dogmush on January 21, 2016, 08:09:18 PM
I'm just amazed he's still giving political commentary. Most guys couldn't keep it up at his age.

They make a pill for that. 
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Re: I would wear it like a badge of honor
« Reply #6 on: January 21, 2016, 09:27:02 PM »
*expletive deleted*it,  it's small wonder he's not running again himself. 
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Re: I would wear it like a badge of honor
« Reply #7 on: January 21, 2016, 10:09:03 PM »
None of the establishment guys like Cruz.  I heard someone speculating they might get behind Trump to keep Cruz from winning.
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Re: I would wear it like a badge of honor
« Reply #8 on: January 21, 2016, 10:18:45 PM »
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Re: I would wear it like a badge of honor
« Reply #9 on: January 21, 2016, 10:35:33 PM »
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“Running to the middle and nominating a moderate who will continue to bank the payroll of the Washington cartel is a losing strategy,” Frazier said.
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“I might oversleep that day,” Dole said. “‘Cause [Cruz] used to make these speeches. ‘Remember President Dole? Do you remember President McCain?’ The inference was that we were all a bunch of liberals, and only he is a true conservative.”
Apparently Dole can't see the truth when it smacks him in the face. 


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“It would be a big mistake for Iowa to support him,” Branstad said. “And I know he’s ahead in the polls, but the only poll that counts is the one they take on caucus night, and I think that could change between now and then.”

The governor called Cruz a “big oil” candidate whose opposition to federal ethanol mandates would be “very damaging to our state” if he wound up in the White House.
I do have some respect for Cruz.  He had the courage to say he didn't support ethanol mandates before the Iowa caucus.  Even Trump wouldn't do that. 
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Re: I would wear it like a badge of honor
« Reply #10 on: January 22, 2016, 01:48:13 AM »
I opined somewhere else that I wanted a bumper sticker that said, "Down With Career Politicians !"

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Re: I would wear it like a badge of honor
« Reply #11 on: January 22, 2016, 07:26:27 AM »
I'm pretty sure that Jefferson, Madison, and many of the other founders, would qualify as career politicians.
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Re: I would wear it like a badge of honor
« Reply #12 on: January 22, 2016, 08:54:13 AM »
Quote from: fistful on January 22, 2016, 07:26:27 AM
I'm pretty sure that Jefferson, Madison, and many of the other founders, would qualify as career politicians.

Can't disagree there.
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Re: I would wear it like a badge of honor
« Reply #13 on: January 22, 2016, 12:00:01 PM »
Quote from: MechAg94 on January 21, 2016, 10:35:33 PM
Apparently Dole can't see the truth when it smacks him in the face. 

I do have some respect for Cruz.  He had the courage to say he didn't support ethanol mandates before the Iowa caucus.  Even Trump wouldn't do that. 

That takes courage to not pander to whatever the "popular" issue is for that state and stick to your principles.   Especially when it's the right thing to do.  Yet there are some that can't see that...
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« Reply #14 on: January 22, 2016, 12:12:38 PM »
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Some days even my lucky rocketship underpants won't help.


Bring me my Broadsword and a clear understanding.
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« Reply #15 on: January 22, 2016, 12:17:14 PM »
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Some days even my lucky rocketship underpants won't help.


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Re: I would wear it like a badge of honor
« Reply #16 on: January 22, 2016, 12:23:39 PM »
I was just surprised he is still alive
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« Reply #17 on: January 22, 2016, 10:46:09 PM »
You call that alive? 
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Re: I would wear it like a badge of honor
« Reply #18 on: January 22, 2016, 11:25:33 PM »
Quote from: 230RN on January 22, 2016, 01:48:13 AM
I opined somewhere else that I wanted a bumper sticker that said, "Down With Career Politicians !"



If you find the stickers, let me know. I'd buy a few.
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Re: I would wear it like a badge of honor
« Reply #19 on: January 23, 2016, 09:51:20 AM »
Quote from: fistful on January 22, 2016, 07:26:27 AM
I'm pretty sure that Jefferson, Madison, and many of the other founders, would qualify as career politicians.

I guess it comes down to what you consider a career politician.  Jefferson in particular wanted a federal government so small he would be considered an anarchist today.  He didn't really campaign for office and toward the end of his last presidential term (and there was no two term limit then) declined making decisions that he felt would be better made by the his successor.  I think he was against career politicians.
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« Reply #20 on: January 23, 2016, 06:08:45 PM »
Quote from: griz on January 23, 2016, 09:51:20 AM
I guess it comes down to what you consider a career politician.  Jefferson in particular wanted a federal government so small he would be considered an anarchist today.  He didn't really campaign for office and toward the end of his last presidential term (and there was no two term limit then) declined making decisions that he felt would be better made by the his successor.  I think he was against career politicians.


You've an odd definition of "career politician." Jefferson was elected to the House of Burgesses while still in his twenties, a delegate to the Second Continental Congress in his thirties, and then governor of Virginia, Congressional delegate again, and then ambassador to France in his forties. After France, he served as Secretary of State, Vice-President, and then President. That doesn't make him a bad person, but it does make him a career politician by the usual definition of the term.

http://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Jefferson
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