Flags are going to be flown at full-mast rather than half-mast in honor of Bob Dole's work with Viagra.
He was very upfront about viagra. I remember some interviewer asking him about it and he just smiled and said “it’s a wonderful product.” I figured it would have been more fun to ask Mrs. Dole what she thought of it. Anyway he was a rock-solid Republican all his life. Today he’d be a RINO.
One of the last great statesmen. And a genuine badass. And also a man with a wickedly dry sense of humor that he was just as comfortable aiming at himself as anyone else.
Back when Dole was more prominent nationally, a friend used to take a dollar bill, slip it in the clip on a ball point pen and ask, “Who am I?” “Who?” “Bob Dole at a strip joint!”
He's a complicated figure. He served in WWII, so props for that, but as of July of this year, still supported Trump (even if he did admit that Trump lost) So fuck him for that. Even if I do think that Dole would have made a better President than many of the Republican Presidents in my lifetime.
I always viewed him as the sacrificial lamb in 1996. There was no way he was going to beat Clinton. You can be sure Clinton appreciated that.
He was a warmonger who opposed just about every dollar of social spending in the United States over several decades, and he ended his life as a Trump supporter. So, yeah - of course he gets sanctified with nonsense about his "essential goodness" and "outstanding patriotism".
I thought Bob Dole died already? My first thought was that I may have been thinking of John McCain, but I'm far too arrogant to acknowledge making any mistake whatsoever, so the best possible explanation is that Nelson Mandela is fucking with the timeline again. Seriously, the Time Police need to catch that guy.
