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Schedenfraude tastes great!

Do you remember Elizabeth Dole? Well, I do. Republican Senator from North Carolina Elizabeth Dole who carpet-bagged all the way from Kansas (yes, I know she was born in NC) where she left old Bob to lust after Britney and pet his dog. Ewwww . Anyhoo , Liddy , as her friends, and terrified local and national media suck ups like to call her, is in electoral trouble, seems she's losing to this upstart, whippersnapper, wise-cracking* Democrat, Kay Hagan that has the nerve, (the nerve!) to point out how lousy of a Senator she has been. The reason I have such a special love for Bob Dole's wife is quite simply her daft decision to push, as the then Secretary of Transportation under Saint Ronald, the raising of the legal drinking age from a semi-morally-consistent age of 18 to 21, oh, and of course fighting off all efforts to mandate increased gas mileage, airbags, and whatnot. And the fact that I was ever so close to that beautiful young age of 18 trips around the sun thanks to my mo...