many. chris: what do you think of your party, of the republicans today? i think they ought to put a sign on the national committee doors that says closed for repairs until new year s day next year and spend that time going over ideas and positive agendas. chris: you describe the gop of your generation as eisenhower republicans. moderate republicans. could people like bob dole even ronald reagan could you make it in today s republican party? i doubt it. dowd haven t made it couldn t have made it because he had ideas and we might have made it but i he doubt it. i mean
needs some work, i think they ought to put a sign on the national committee doors that says closed for repairs until new year s day next year. spend that time going over ideas and positive agendas. e.d., he even said he s not sure he or ronald reagan would fit in with today s republican party. is he right? do you think republicans need to retool what they really stand for right now? i think that ronald reagan certainly does fit into today s party. what i do think is difficult is selling that moderate message, and i think that s difficult for a number of reasons, not just because of the party, but because of the way the media is, quite frankly these days. it s difficult. i do think that bob dole, it s a bit hypocritical. you complain about the party but yet when you could have changed things you didn t and one of my big peeves with the party is that there seems to have been this hierarchy where every year they go through, okay, this is the guy who has been waiting the longest, give it
probably justify it but not many. chris: what do you think of your party, of the republicans today? i think they ought to put a sign on the national committee doors that says closed for repairs until new year s day next year and spend that time going over ideas and positive agendas. chris: you describe the gop of your generation as eisenhower republicans. moderate republicans. could people like bob dole even ronald reagan could you make it in today s republican party? i doubt it. dowd haven t made it couldn t have made it because he had ideas and we might have made it but i he doubt it.
probably justify it but not many. chris: what do you think of your party, of the republicans today? i think they ought to put a sign on the national committee doors that says closed for repairs until new year s day next year and spend that time going over ideas and positive agendas. chris: you describe the gop of your generation as eisenhower republicans. moderate republicans. could people like bob dole even ronald reagan could you make it in today s republican party? i doubt it. dowd haven t made it couldn t have made it because he had ideas and we might have made it but i he doubt it.
right in that they want to watch their tone. republicans don t want to be calling for impeachment right now. it perhaps is a bit too far and extreme. however, what i think is going to be interesting to watch is over the next couple of weeks, if they are able to link this irs scandal to their longer narrative about obamacare, already we re seeing reports that the irs will, in fact, be part of implementing a controversial obamacare. it s going to be interesting to see how that plays out. former republican bob dole was on fox this morning. he said his own party was not in great shape. this is some advice that he had for republicans. i think they ought to put a sign on the national committee doors that says, closed for repairs. closed for repairs. 89-year-old bob dole there, we should note, talking about the hyperpolarization that members of the gop are displaying right now in his opinion. who in the republican party, benny, is working on remedying that right now?