Red State (Free subscription) | yesterday
Can McCain Close Like Bob Dole and Jerry Ford? So far as I can tell, nobody in the history of modern polling has won a presidential election from as big a hole as John McCain now stands in, at last check a national polling advantage in the neighborhood of 5 points for Obama . Now, if you are a betting man, surely you like your odds on Obama. But does that mean that the race is over ? Perhaps, but...
Alone on a Limb (Free subscription) | 10/04/2008
Walter Mondale - Bob Dole Geraldine Ferraro - George Bush Lloyd Bentzen - Dan Quayle Al Gore - Dan Quayle Al Gore - Jack Kemp Joe Lieberman - Dick Cheney John Edwards - Dick Cheney Joe Biden - Sarah Palin I think this list is the complete list of the major party Vice Presidential debates in our history. These debates have included some interesting moments. Think of these 13 folks and their debates....
Spooky Action (Free subscription) | 10/03/2008
I can't recall a Republican senator ever winning the Presidency. I CAN recall them losing it; most recently Bob Dole in '96. And if things stay on course, John McCain will lose in 2008. Why? Because there are no consequences of losing. On Inauguration Day 2009 he'll have the same seats at the same banquets that he had in 2004 - and 1996. He'll have the same chambers as the day before the election (unless...
Townhall.com (Free subscription) | 10/03/2008
They both enjoy referring to themselves in the 3rd Person."... No better friend to Israel than Joe Biden." (except maybe Joe Lieberman)
The Plank (Free subscription) | 10/01/2008
As I've noted earlier , 2008's may be the most heavily analogized election in American history. Barack Obama has been likened, often quite convincingly, to leaders ranging from Abraham Lincoln to Jimmy Carter. John McCain--the American Disraeli to admirers, the second Bob Dole to critics--isn't far behind. Sarah Palin, though, seems to conjure up just one historical parallel: Dan Quayle, the dubiously...
News: Opinion -- KansasCity.com (Free subscription) | 09/26/2008
John McCain is not a good debater, not even by comparison with George W. Bush. Having been in Washington for decades, he knows many issues in detail. Having been in Washington for decades, he often overexplains those details, as Bob Dole did against Bill Clinton in 1996. Worse, he will look and sound old and weak next to Obama. Ronald Reagan was about McCain’s current age when he ran for re-election...
AMERICAblog (Free subscription) | 09/24/2008
McCain needed drama to shake up the campaign. Reminds me of Bob Dole's dramatic decision to resign from the Senate back in 1996. That worked, huh? And, yes, it's a stunt. Check out this statement from Obama's spokesman, Bill Burton: At 8:30 this morning, Senator Obama called Senator McCain to ask him if he would join in issuing a joint statement outlining their shared principles and conditions for...
The Real Clear Politics Blog (Free subscription) | 09/22/2008
Obama spokesman Bill Burton blasts out the following email, titled, "McCain campaign channels Bob Dole:" "Where is the outrage!?" -Steve Schmidt on a conference call with reporters just now FLASHBACK...SEN. BOB DOLE: "I don't read all these political things, but...
NixGuy.com (Free subscription) | 09/22/2008
Filed under: 2008 President , Investigations , Media Sounds like McCain campaign manager Steve Schmidt has had it. The Obama campaign's response, apparently , is to compare Schmidt with Bob Dole who in 1996, when he had had it with the liberal media had his own moment: FLASHBACK...SEN. BOB DOLE: "I don't read all these political things, but somebody told me the press reported that Bob Dole was frustrated....
AMERICAblog (Free subscription) | 09/21/2008
Adam Nagourney at the New York Times thinks the new John McCain is like the old Bob Dole. Joe Klein at Time Magazine takes a crack at the differences between the "new" John McCain and the "old" John McCain: One of the big differences between the old John McCain and the current edition is that the old one (1) would admit error and (2) would admit there were things he didn't know. That was a good part...
AMERICAblog (Free subscription) | 09/20/2008
Yesterday, Adam Nagourney from the New York Times established the emerging story line that new John McCain is actually Bob Dole: These days, Mr. McCain sounds less like his old self than Bob Dole, another Republican senator who ran for president in 1996, sounded in the closing days of his campaign — speaking louder or repeating statements that he thinks might be overlooked. Olbermann kept it up with...
Political Animal (Free subscription) | 09/18/2008
BOB DOLE '08.... About a year ago, during the Republican primaries and long before it was clear who would emerge as the party's presidential nominee, it was common to hear John McCain's conservative critics equate him with Bob Dole. Today,...
The Daily Dish (Free subscription) | 09/17/2008
Rich Lowry echoes Ross: The enduring scandal of the McCain campaign is that it wants to win. The press had hoped for a harmless, nostalgic loser like Bob Dole in 1996. In a column excoriating Republicans for historically launching successful...
National Review Online (Free subscription) | 09/16/2008
The press had hoped for a harmless, nostalgic loser like Bob Dole in 1996. The enduring scandal of the McCain campaign is that it wants to win.
Oliver Willis (Free subscription) | 09/11/2008
You could almost call it a Bob Dole moment. Republican presidential candidate John McCain cut short his first public appearance without running-mate Sarah Palin after chanting supporters of Democratic rival Barack Obama interrupted his speech. After lunching with a roundtable of women at Philadelphia’s Down Home Diner, McCain shook hands with supporters and strode up to a [...]
