On the Scene

Ames

THE busload of Dole supporters, just arrived from Russell, Kansas, stood blinking in the sun, looking a little stunned. None of them seemed under 65. Some wore crazy shirts with red-white-and-blue patterns along with their Dole buttons. One pointed out Norma Jean, Bob Dole’s sister. As they puttered along in a pack, there was little doubt this crew has been, as Dole might put it, “tested.” But shock troops in the completion of the “Second American Revolution”?

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Rich Lowry

Rich Lowry is the editor in chief of National Review.

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THE busload of Dole supporters, just arrived from Russell, Kansas, stood blinking in the sun, looking a little stunned. None of them seemed under 65. Some wore crazy shirts with red-white-and-blue patterns along with their Dole buttons. One pointed out Norma Jean, Bob Dole’s sister. As they puttered along in a pack, there was little doubt this crew has been, as Dole might put it, “tested.” But shock troops in the completion of the “Second American Revolution”?