Nixon?
That guy who has never been in Cliff Clavin’s kitchen.
Bob Dole thinks that this is referring to Bob Dole.
Bob Dole in his 1996 run for President.
Those used to be the positions of the lead Republican. These days, they’d be called outrageously liberal by the current Republican party. Funny how liberals these days can be called hateful and nasty for espousing positions that used to be part of the platform of the lead conservative of the time.
What suspense! The drama, the anticipation. All to find out a former Republican nominee had some positions which were sensible and some that were outright stupid. What a shocker.
I’m not going to waste more than two minutes on this thread, so it’s probably already been said, but those people you named are not a fair sampling of “anyone with conservative values.”
Cain is the best of the lot; he’s merely grossly inadequate for his ambitions. The other three are some combination of evil and batshit crazy.
Congresscritters are exempt from some laws. Section 10 of the Securities Exchange Act, for example; you may remember the recent furor over the STOCK Act, which rectified that. Until 1996, they were exempt from an awful lot of federal laws, which was fixed with the passage of the Congressional Accountability Act. That bill was, in fact, what Dole was talking about.
ETA: who knew Dole’s 1996 campaign website was still up?
If you check the fine print at the very bottom, “This Web Site is Presented for Educational Purposes by 4President.org”. I seem to recall that they have several old campaign websites preserved, though the Dole one is unusual in still being at its original URL.
That is . . . probably for the best. :o