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