In case you're tempted to feel sorry for Bob Dole for being old, in a wheelchair, and dissed by today's whackjob Republican Party, the death of Dr. William Roy is a handy reminder of how horrible the GOP's 1996 Presidential nominee is and has always been.
Roy was narrowly denied a Senate seat back in 1974 by a vicious Dole campaign that labeled the mild-mannered physician a baby killer. Yes, sigh, even then. It fact, it could have been the start of the GOP's shameful hit parade of smearing Democrats over a woman's right to choose.
And of course we cats will never forget Dole's 1976 Vice Presidential debate with Walter Mondale. "Democrat wars," anyone? (Was that the first time anyone used the noun "Democrat" as an adjective?)
We cats do not regret that Dr. Roy didn't outlive the repulsive Bob Dole. Au contraire — we are pleased that Dole has lived long enough to see the teabaggers mock and reject him. That makes us PURR.
(IMAGE: Dole debates. Sinister, no?)
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