Newt to Bob Dole "Why do people take such an instant dislike to me?" [View all]

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Dole: "it saves them time"




http://bostonglobe.com/news/politics/2012/01/26/bob-dole-says-newt-gingrich-nomination-will-have-adverse-effect-gop/IuV2cwR0eRqGOeo18ACcsJ/story.html

“If Gingrich is the nominee, it will have an adverse impact on Republican candidates running for county, state, and federal offices,” Bob Dole wrote. “Hardly anyone who served with Newt in Congress has endorsed him, and that fact speaks for itself. He was a one-man-band who rarely took advice. It was his way or the highway.”

The former Senate majority leader, whose tenure overlapped with that of Gingrich from 1995 until he ran for president a year later, said his House counterpart “had a new idea every minute and most of them were off the wall. He loved picking a fight with Bill Clinton because he knew this would get the attention of the press. This and a myriad of other specifics helped to topple Gingrich in 1998.”