GOP should be "Closed for repairs"

While Bob Dole was never a favorite, he reached across the aisle, things got accomplished and government worked.

The current Republican/Tea Baggers have become so propagandized and extreme, their goals seem to be the failure of government and the destruction of the future of America.

May 26th, 2013

11:49 AM ET

GOP should be ‘Closed for repairs,’ says Dole

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CNN's Kevin Liptak

(CNN) – National Republicans have shifted so drastically in the past decade that the party’s most vaunted figure - former President Ronald Reagan - would no longer find a home in the GOP, former Sen. Bob Dole claimed Sunday.

 

“Reagan couldn’t have made it,” Dole said, adding he too would also have faced challenges in today’s Republican Party.

Instead of operating day-to-day in a nonelection year, the national party should focus on broader plans to rehabilitate itself after the losses of 2012, the former Kansas lawmaker said.

“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,” Dole, who was the Republican nominee for president in 1996, said on “Fox News Sunday.”

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