Bob Dole Goes Berserk On “Miserable Creature” Scott McClellan
He called McClellan a “miserable creature” and a “total ingrate”…from Politico:
Bob Dole yesterday sent a scalding email to Scott McClellan, excoriating the former White House spokesman as a “miserable creature” who greedily betrayed his former patron for a fast buck.
In an extraordinary message obtained and authenticated by Politico, Dole uses his trademark biting wit to portray McClellan as a classic Washington opportunist.
“There are miserable creatures like you in every administration who don’t have the guts to speak up or quit if there are disagreements with the boss or colleagues,” Dole wrote in a message sent yesterday morning. “No, your type soaks up the benefits of power, revels in the limelight for years, then quits, and spurred on by greed, cashes in with a scathing critique.”
Michael Marshall, Dole’s spokesman and colleague at the Alston Bird law firm, confirms the message came from the former senator and presidential candidate. “Yes, it is authentic,” Marshall wrote in an email.
“In my nearly 36 years of public service I’ve known of a few like you,” Dole writes, recounting his years representing Kansas in the House and Senate. “No doubt you will ‘clean up’ as the liberal anti-Bush press will promote your belated concerns with wild enthusiasm. When the money starts rolling in you should donate it to a worthy cause, something like, ‘Biting The Hand That Fed Me.’ Another thought is to weasel your way back into the White House if a Democrat is elected. That would provide a good set up for a second book deal in a few years”
Dole assures McClellan that he won’t read the book — “because if all these awful things were happening, and perhaps some may have been, you should have spoken up publicly like a man, or quit your cushy, high profile job”
“That would have taken integrity and courage but then you would have had credibility and your complaints could have been aired objectively,” Dole concludes. “You’re a hot ticket now but don’t you, deep down, feel like a total ingrate?”
He signs the email simply: “BOB DOLE”
(Politico)
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Ouch. That has to hurt even a soulless creature like McClellan.
May 30th, 2008 at 10:25 amBitch slapped with one hand!
May 30th, 2008 at 10:25 amHow do you spell TRAITOR….JIM WEBB and SCOTT MCCLELLAN….REPUBLICAN TURNCOATS EXTRAORDINARE!!!!!!!!!!!
May 30th, 2008 at 10:29 amMaynard gets the prize
May 30th, 2008 at 10:38 amWhere was this Dole when he ran for President? This kind of fire and brimstone with conviction would have been welcomed with open arms back then.
Oh well, the nice thing is that when all is said and done the Libs will turn on ol’ Scott, which is inevitable, and he will have no friends left in this world besides those he can buy with the money he collected from the selling of his soul.
May 30th, 2008 at 10:59 amI didn’t think much of Dole as Presidential candidate, but that email says it all. You go Bob!
May 30th, 2008 at 10:59 amBob Dole is one of the few politicians that I admire.
Good body blow there. Glad to see him call him out.
May 30th, 2008 at 11:09 amActually, as soon as he lost the election in ‘96 I think I remember him doing some viagra commercials and he was actually very funny. I remember thinking where was that personality during the campaign. Glad he whacked the whack job…
May 30th, 2008 at 11:19 amYeah Dole has always stayed true. never been for global warming either. I applaud him for really ‘giving it’ to someone who truly deserves it
May 30th, 2008 at 11:19 amDole forgot to call Scotty a “pile of maggot infested green infant crap laced with bile from the stomach of Nancy Pelosi…”
May 30th, 2008 at 11:40 amDamn, he called McClellan a weasel and an ingrate. Sounds like something I might have said. Way to go Bob.
May 30th, 2008 at 12:12 pmToo bad Dole isn’t the president. He could have ‘canned’ McClelland.
May 30th, 2008 at 12:31 pmFucking love it. Someone actually speaking their mind, telling it like it is and saying fuck p.c. Ooooh, careful, you might hurt someones feelings.. Way to go Bob.
May 30th, 2008 at 12:50 pmTHERE ONCE WAS A QUISLING NAMED McCLELLAN,
May 30th, 2008 at 1:36 pmMANY BOOKS HE HOPES TO BE SELLIN,
TO THE TRUTH HE IS A STRANGER,
THIS THUMB SUCKING RUMP RANGER,
A WARM SPOT IN HELL MAY HE BE DWELLIN
0311inOHio (typical white person)
0311==USMC infantry MOS ?????
May 30th, 2008 at 1:39 pmSo is IP727 the poet laureate of this site?
May 30th, 2008 at 2:19 pmIP727
THERE ONCE WAS A QUISLING NAMED McCLELLAN,
MANY BOOKS HE HOPES TO BE SELLIN,
TO THE TRUTH HE IS A STRANGER,
THIS THUMB SUCKING RUMP RANGER,
A WARM SPOT IN HELL MAY HE BE DWELLIN
BRAVO!! LMAO you’re a poet, ya know it?
May 30th, 2008 at 2:59 pmMy sentiments exactly. If McClellan was a “man of his convictions” he would have had more credibility if A) he had resigned from his post under protest, and B) yelled from every bully pulpit before he wrote a book.
McCLELLAN YOU HAVE NO HONOR!!!!!!!
May 30th, 2008 at 5:40 pmIP727:
Got a little Irish in you like me maybe?
May 30th, 2008 at 7:17 pmOne of the best damn limerics ever written!
May 30th, 2008 at 7:40 pm
1–Gawd bless Bob Dole, if he had showed that same type of fire and real “straight-talk” in 1996 he wd have crushed Slick Willie!
2–IP727, that limerick was awesome! I’m putting it on my blog!
May 30th, 2008 at 8:34 pm