I kinda miss Bob Dole. Liddy, not so much.

Anyway, today Dole released a statement attacking Newt Gingrich, and boy, it is juicy reading….

In my run for the presidency in 1996 the Democrats greeted me with a number of negative TV ads, and in every one of them Newt was in the ad. He was very unpopular and I am not only certain that this did not help me, but that it also cost House seats that year. Newt would show up at the campaign headquarters with an empty ice-bucket in his hand — that was a symbol of some sort for him — and I never did know what he was doing or why he was doing it.

Apparently the bucket symbolized ice that used to be delivered to Congressional offices.

“If there was any one symbol I wish we could be remembered by,” Gingrich said in 1996, “I believe it should be an ice bucket.”