The Washington Post, July 4th, 1996
Why can't Bob Dole be my Bob Dole? Why does he insist on being his Bob Dole? My Bob Dole is reasonably conservative, old and therefore wise, the embodiment of Midwestern values, a Carl Sandburg sort of guy (he sometimes didn't get it right, either) who was brave as a soldier and braver still as a wounded vet, and who is the very model of rectitude. That Bob Dole is all right with me. Ah, but Bob Dole's Bob Dole is a snarling, mean lout. He doesn't have the good sense to simply say he spoke incorrectly about how cigarettes are not necessarily addictive and how, when you think about it, even mil...
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