Shots In The Dark: From the Department of Lacking in Self-Awareness

Thursday, July 21, 2024

From the Department of Lacking in Self-Awareness

Here's what Liddy Dole—Senator Liddy Dole—had to say about Democratic Senate candidate Robert Casey of Pennsylvania, whose father was governor of that state:

""I don't know that he has addressed any issues. They are kind of locking him away, letting him run on his father's name."

Huh.

Um....Mrs. Dole...wasn't your husband a senator for, oh, about 30 years? And weren't you the one who ran one of the most notoriously issue-free campaigns in modern political history?

Oh, and if your name-piggybacking weren't enough...I'm sorry, but who's president, again? And governor of Florida?

Honestly, these people....

¶ 2:20 PM

Comments:

In fairness to Senator Elizabeth Dole, before running for Senate she had served over 6 years in the cabinet as Secretary of Transportation and Secretary of Labor. When she met Senator Bob Dole she was already a senior government official, a career she began in 1969, several years after graduating from Harvard Law School. To dismiss her as merely a spouse is rather sexist.

# posted by michael : 9:15 AM

I'm aware of her credentials—and she was one of the first female graduates of HLS, right?

Let's compromise and say that, although Elizabeth Hanford was certainly an accomplished woman in her own right, being married to a senator didn't hurt her political fortunes.

Moreover, she still ran a campaign in a state where she hadn't lived for decades that was remarkable for her relentless refusal to discuss anything of substance.

In any case, I was really more irked about her attack on nepotism, given the realities of Jeb and George W. Bush's political careers.

# posted by richard : 10:40 AM

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