As the cliché goes, assholes live forever, and it was somewhat true of this bitter old man. I’ve already heard all the crap in his defense about how he risked his life in WWII which permanently injured him. Too bad his sense of empathy for the poor and suffering was also mortally wounded with his right arm.
Dole was not an honorable person. He was involved with Tricky Dick and became Ford’s running mate in 1976 due to the sitting vice president (Nelson Rockefeller) not being right wing enough. Plus this creep admitted to attempts at overturning the election of Jimmy Carter so he helped sow the seeds to the skunk weeds we’re experiencing today. In case you forgot, he was the only former candidate to show up at the 2016 RNC convention in Cleveland to crown Tiny Weeny Peeny Mussolini. Quayle, both Bushes, McCain and Romney stayed clear.
Through the Eighties and until his drubbing in 1996, Dole went on to be the Republican water boy for St. Reagan and Bush the Lesser. Obviously, it was due to his losses in 1980 and 1988 to get the nod. Yet his former mistress turned trophy wife succeeded in getting cabinet positions before her worthless six years as a senator for North Carolina.
After Bush the Lesser joined the club of one-term losers, Dole figured it was his time to shine. Slick Willie looked pretty vulnerable in 1995. The NeoLiberal from Arkansas squandered the Dem’s House majority for the unpopular NAFTA bill, propelling the sociopath of GA…Newt Gingrich and his three chins, to House Speaker. Then the GOP overplayed its hand with a government shut down, many say fueled by Gingrinch’s temper tantrum over not getting to sit at the grown-ups table on Air Force One after a major state funeral. This saved the Democrats enormously.
So Dole ran for POTUS in 1996 with the often losing campaign slogan…It’s My Turn! With other variations such as: I Was in WWII So I Deserve This! and Bob Dole Would Do a Good Job! No real substance beyond, I won’t do what the current POTUS is doing. Wall Street wouldn’t bite and GOP infighting led to an easy victory for Slick. I knew it was over when the only chump willing to be veep was long-time D-Lister Jack Kemp. The GOP’s true king makers threw Dole to the wolves since their real plan was to groom Bush the Lesser’s idiot, coke-snorting son who became Texas’ governor two years earlier. Getting mocked by Norm MacDonald on SNL probably didn’t help.
For his remaining days he pitched boner pills, super gross, and the punditocracy would wake him from his coffin whenever they needed him to shit talk Slick and Obummer. I’d say, in the end he’ll have a pretty unmemorable legacy along FDR hater Robert Taft and all the pork projects named after him in Kansas. Dole was really disgrace to the Greatest Generation and all the sacrifices many of them made to make America better.