Bob Dole in a Cameo for McCain Super Tuesday

Well isn’t this special?

The Politico says Bob Dole

wrote an insistent letter to Rush Limbaugh on Monday and suggested that for the good of the party, the conservative talk-show host should stop his strafing of Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.).

Bob Dole, of all people, talks to the czar of conservatism about John McCain.

Limbaugh has been talking lately about John McCain’s liberal tendencies and how bad it would be for the Republican Party in a strategic sense if McCain gets the nomination.

Rush Limbaugh has (rightly) been reminding listeners that McCain has shown little loyalty to the Republican Party for nearly the last 10 years.

McCain sold out the First Amendment with his unconstitutional and media-pleasing McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform (aka the Incumbent Protection Act).

McCain undermined his party’s leadership in the fight over judicial nominees, instead joining other liberal Republicans and Democrats to form the “Gang of 14″ which blocked party leaders from taking the fight to the mat.

McCain has opposed the Federal Marriage Amendment to protect the institution of marriage from homosexual activists and activist judges.

McCain is an amnesty proponent and isn’t serious about immigration and border control.

McCain has undermined the president in the war on terrorism by claiming that waterboarding is on the same moral plane as beheadings and blowing up innocent men, women and children.

McCain opposed the Bush tax cuts.

McCain plays footsie with liberals like Ted Kennedy and seeks the approval of the “mainstream” media.

That’s who John McCain is. The Republican Party used to be a home for conservatives; now it seems to be the party of small-time liberalism.

You might also say that Mike Huckabee isn’t a conservative, and you’d be right. Yes, he’s consistently pro-life, and almost completely consistently pro-marriage. But as I’ve said numerous times, he’s a liberal on almost everything else. And Rush has not by any means given Huckabee a pass; in fact, Limbaugh, too, has nailed Huckabee as predominantly liberal.

In fact, Limbaugh has lamented the lame choices in the GOP field altogether, so it’s not simply a personal ax to grind against McCain.

But then back to our cameo appearance in this election by Bob Dole. Bob Dole was cut from the same liberal, excuse me, “moderate” cloth as McCain going into his disastrous 1996 campaign. Dole took no consistent conservative stands, generated no excitement in the conservative base, and gave conservative voters no reason to give of their time, money and energy to elect him. Classic RINO campaign.

Now we appear poised to repeat the defeat of 1996…and humorously Bob Dole is back, just in time for Super Tuesday, in a cameo role for the sequel.

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