Elizabeth Dole says she'll seek re-election

[Doondoo]

U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Dole hit the campaign trail Friday intent on seeking re-election in 2008. Dole spoke at a Lenoir County GOP dinner Friday night, the first of a series of meetings with Republican groups and fundraising events she has planned for the coming weeks.

"I want to tell you tonight I am going to run for re-election to the United States Senate," Dole said, prompting a standing ovation from 250 people attending a Lincoln/Reagan Day barbecue dinner at Southwood Memorial Christian Church. "I am going to need your help as we rev up the campaign for 2008."

Dole has been the subject of rumors over the past year suggesting that, at age 70, she may not seek a second term. The rumors have been fed by a slow start in organizing her re-election effort.

Dole said she does not have to be reminded that this is a difficult time for Republicans, having spent the past two years as chairwoman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee when the GOP lost control of the Senate. She called it "the worst political environment in memory."


http://www.newsobserver.com/102/story/544209.html

[LiberalinNC]

1. She called it "the worst political environment in memory." She ain't seen nothin' yet!

[Pool Hall Ace]

2. Lincoln / Reagan Day ??

:puke:

[Thickasabrick]

3. Is there anyone interesting that's looking to run against her? I

really think whoever it is should start now.

[LiberalinNC]

5. I think Easley is considering running against Dole.

[dsc]

16. Conressman Miller, Congressman Etheridge, and one other person

is considering a race. Easley has said no, though he would be a very logical candidate. Cooper, Purdue, and Moore are running for governor.

[carolinablue]

24. I wish Easley would run

no chance of reconsidering. From what I have heard of him, he kind of makes up his own mind and isn't easily swayed. I would just love to have a senator in Liddy's place who had actually been to North Carolina for more than a few days in the last decade.

[struggle4progress]

30. Miller announced in June he wouldn't run

http://www.draftbradmiller.org/

[wageslave71]

4. She supports the troop surge

Let's see how well that works out and be sure it is brought up during the campaign.

[jarnocan]

6. she wouldn't even allow a meeting

with constituents with her office staff on 1/29, not even military families or VETS. What an old soggy bag of BU**SH**.

[Mudoria]

7. What has she done exactly to help the people of NC

since she has been in office? I can't recall much that she has done other than show up for photo-ops. I give her a thumbs up for mismanaging the GOP funding since it helped get Demo's in control of Congress again...

[ncrainbowgrrl]

8. She got money for highway construction around Salisbury.

Yes, the city that she claims to be "home."

Other than that, she hasn't done much for her constituents- other than letting us have a democratic senator in the state north of us by mismanaging the NRSCC!

[struggle4progress]

29. She intro'd the bill to give Tony the Poodle a gold medal

[karmaqueen]

9. Mike McIntyre from the SE ?

I don't know where I heard this but thought someone said he was thinking about it. I know he is extremely popular here, I don't think anyone runs against him. The base probably won't like him because he has had some "bad" votes. To me though ANYONE is better than Dole.

[abburdlen]

17. Only because Dole is so terrible

would I consider voting for McIntyre. voted for the bankruptcy bill, repeal of the estate tax - voted against stem cell research... We need a local Lamont here in South Eastern NC.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

10. is she running to represent DC

where she lives?

or NC where she visits occasionally?

[Sonicmedusa]

11. I sent the old harpy a scathing letter today

calling her a warmongering corporate whore.

And she IS.

I will sleep like a baby tonight.

Try it!

[AshevilleGuy]

12. Please, let's run someone NEW against her!

NOT some person who has lost that race TWICE... I am worried that it will happen again.

[struggle4progress]

31. I want Elaine Marshall

[Mira]

13. How would this look on NC cars - just in time for her campaign

[supernova]

14. Ha Ha!

I like it! :D

[SaveAmerica]

15. Seek it baby, seek it till you get pruny! No batter, no batter, no

BATTA!!! Yur out!!!! Can you tell I'd welcome that bid for re-election?

[NC_Nurse]

18. Ugh!

She just sucks. :-(

I wish Easley would run. He's not perfect, but I think he could beat her.

[littlebit]

19. When did?

I thought Easley was going to run. When did he say he wasn't?

[abburdlen]

20. Grier Martin

Grier Martin will do to Libby Dole what James Webb did to George Allen; kick her useless butt out of Washington.

[NCarolinawoman]

21. Yes, and VoteVets will help him do it.

She is very vulnerable now after voting against Webb's amendment regarding troop rotation. Dole is not a friend of the military, and that will be pointed out.

[abburdlen]

22. I suppose

all that's left to do is write up transfer orders for Grier for his deployment to Washington!

[wageslave71]

23. She voted against troop withdrawal this week

She's a Bush Admin echo chamber and to defeat her she needs to be portrayed as such. The GOP as a whole is already distancing itself from the president. By Election '08, they will have broken into a dead sprint.

Dole has used the same "Stay the course" rhetoric and openly declared connections between Al Qaeda and Saddam's Iraq. These statements are still on her website.

[tekisui]

34. She also voted against troop rest.

[mwooldri]

25. Dole should end up where her namesake is.

On the Dole.

(i.e. she should be given the pink slip, dismissed, fired, indicted, sacked, made unemployed - Dole generally meaning someone who is unemployed and getting unemployment benefits).

Regrettably she'd get a Senator's pension if^H^H when she was unsuccessul in re-election, so Dole will get the Dole regardless.

[dandylion]

26. She called it "the worst political environment in memory."

At 70 yrs old, does she still have much of a memory? :shrug:
It's time to send the old battle ax packing.

[Richard Steele]

27. Hiya, dandylion!

Welcome to DU! :hi:

[MadAnne]

28. She and Bob

were here in Transylvania County last week.

[CRK7376]

32. I've never voted for her,

nor will I ever vote for her or her party in NC

[flakey_foont]

33. totally useless

what exactly does she do in the Senate?