and certainly nixon couldn t have made it because he had ideas and we might have made it but i doubt it. i mean chris: too moderate. too willing to compromise? i just considered myself a republican. on this of this hyphenated stuff. chris: what he is saying is that the republican party basically has moved out of the mainstream? you know what, look, he is a hero in this country and we all love bob dole but the reality is if you look at the last two nominees, mitt romney and john mccain i think that is a pretty good counter position to what senator dole had to say. i think we have the tale of two parties here. number one, we have got a party that in the off year wins about everything imaginable. governors across the country. state legislatures. on the issues, we win races. we win races. then you have a presidential election. if we are being honest about it we haven t decenter icively won a presidential race in 24 years.
and certainly nixon couldn t have made it because he had ideas and we might have made it but i doubt it. i mean chris: too moderate. too willing to compromise? i just considered myself a republican. on this of this hyphenated stuff. chris: what he is saying is that the republican party basically has moved out of the mainstream? you know what, look, he is a hero in this country and we all love bob dole but the reality is if you look at the last two nominees, mitt romney and john mccain i think that is a pretty good counter position to what senator dole had to say. i think we have the tale of two parties here. number one, we have got a party that in the off year wins about everything imaginable. governors across the country. state legislatures. on the issues, we win races. we win races. then you have a presidential election. if we are being honest about it we haven t decenter icively won a presidential race in 24
and certainly nixon couldn t have made it because he had ideas and we might have made it but i doubt it. i mean chris: too moderate. too willing to compromise? i just considered myself a republican. on this of this hyphenated stuff. chris: what he is saying is that the republican party basically has moved out of the mainstream? you know what, look, he is a hero in this country and we all love bob dole but the reality is if you look at the last two nominees, mitt romney and john mccain i think that is a pretty good counter position to what senator dole had to say. i think we have the tale of two parties here. number one, we have got a party that in the off year wins about everything imaginable. governors across the country. state legislatures. on the issues, we win races. we win races. then you have a presidential election. if we are being honest about it we haven t decenter icively won a presidential race in 24
and that in time of need, the bridge between failure and success can be the government itself. that was him accepting the nomination. the bridge between success and failure can be government itself. how far do you think that would go in today s republican party? fox news over the weekend aired a new extensive interview they ve just done with bob dole. could people like bob dole, even ronald reagan, could you make it in today s republican party? i doubt it. reagan couldn t have made it. certainly nixon couldn t have made it because he had ideas. and we might have made it, but i doubt it. on the right, the reaction to those comments from bob dole has been that they tell you all you need to know about that old squish bob dole, too moderate.
from my own experience that not every man, woman or child can make it on their own. and that in time of need, the bridge between failure and success can be the government itself. that was him accepting the nomination. the bridge between success and failure can be government itself. how far do you think that would go in today s republican party? fox news over the weekend aired a new extensive interview they ve just done with bob dole. could people like bob dole, even ronald reagan, could you make it in today s republican party? i doubt it. reagan couldn t have made it. certainly nixon couldn t have made it because he had ideas. and we might have made it, but i doubt it. on the right, the reaction to those comments from bob dole has been that they tell you all you need to know about that old