I was raised in that guy's home district...........
Posted on 12/31/2007 10:57:18 AM PST by Kaslin
JACKSON, Miss, - Gov. Haley Barbour on Monday announced his choice for Trent Lott's replacement in the Senate: Rep. Roger Wicker, a conservative congressman.
Barbour said it was important to select a person with Lott's "conservative values" and who would be able to work with Mississippi Sen. Thad Cochran, also a Republican.
"I am a mainstream conservative in the mold of Trent Lott, Thad Cochran, Haley Barbour and (U.S. Rep.) Chip Pickering and I believe the vast majority of Mississipians share this philosophy," Wicker said at a news conference. "At the same time, I hope my constituents and colleagues view me as a pragmatic problem-solver."
Wicker will serve until a state-mandated special election is held Nov. 4. He is expected to be a candidate in that race. The winner will serve out the remainder of Lott's term, which runs through 2012.
Wicker, 56, had been mentioned as a possible successor since Lott's resignation earlier in December after serving one year of a six-year term.
Wicker was elected to the U.S. House in 1994 to succeed the late Rep. Jamie Whitten. He has been re-elected six times from the 1st District in north Mississippi. Wicker was resigning from the U.S. House.
Lott served 16 years in the U.S. House before moving to the Senate in 1988. Lott announced in November that he would resign before the end of the year. He resigned Dec. 19 after Congress wrapped up its work for the year.
Lott, 66, said he wants to spend more time with his family and to pursue other job opportunities, possibly teaching. He ruled out any health concerns, but said it's time for a younger voice to represent Mississippi in the Senate.
It’s already been posted.
Twill be a better Senator than the old one, methinks......
I was raised in that guy's home district...........
A wet poodle could have replaced Lott...
It amazes me this “cheer leader” for the Democrats remained in a Republican seat so long..
If he has Lott’s “conservative values” we’re screwed again.
I live in Southaven, but grew up in Marshall county. Wicker’s a good choice.
Lott will be remembered for his naieve belief that power can be “shared” with the lying, shameless, greedy, soulless thugs known as Democrats. They took what he gave them, beat him over the head with it and then essentially ran the Senate as the minority party. Pathetic. So long, cheerleader....
Must been posted under a different title, My seach came up empty
He's a definite improvement upon the hair piece, and his votes have been significantly better ever since the amnesty train started rolling, but I don't know if I'm as comfortable with him as I was with Barrasso.
Glad that Lott's finally gone though.
Hope that Wicker isn't seduced by our Roman Senate.
Trent Lott is gone, not a bad trade-off.
Trent, bless his heart, probably MEANT well all the time, but he did not realize what a bunch of jackals he was dealing with when he stepped down (or was forced to), allowing “power-sharing” with the Democraticans in 2003.
Well, that and the rancor that arose over his remarks concerning Strom Thurmond, who was retiring.
I really hope that Chip Pickering Jr.-or his father-runs for the seat when a general election is called.
Gene Taylor is one of the few Democrats in the country I would consider supporting-along with Mike McIntyre and Brad Henry-if he were to make a go of it, except if he were facing Pickering.
This looks like another seat the GOP could end up blowing.
Miss. congressman to replace Sen. Lott [Rep. Roger Wicker, a conservative congressman....]
Yet Yahoo link in the other thread leads to the exact same title that I posted. It's not my fault when someone changes the title
Taylor is an erratic nut. He unapologetically voted for Pelosi for Speaker this last January.
I read somewhere the other day that he was not running
I was raised in Hickory Flat and have relatives in Potts Camp, Cornersville, etc......
I had hoped Haley would have ran for pesident, anyone know why he didn’t ?
I wish there were more of those types in Congress, rather than lobbyists or trial lawyers.
He also refused to vote for Richard Gephardt for Speaker once, IIRC.
I don't think you can find many Democrats in the House who've done the same.
Taylor is not a stooge for anyone-unlike that faux conservative Shuler, or some of the other Dixiecons the Dems are trying to peddle to the American public-and even when you disagree with him you have to respect his convictions.
I think he's one of the few Dems who has convictions that aren't tied to a longer rap sheet.
Hope this guy is a real conservative
Red Banks, I attended school in Holly Springs. Small world!
Well, I don’t know him, but his statement was unexceptionable. What else could he say.
I think Trent Lott was a good man, with good conservative instincts, but that he probably did something that opened him up to blackmail by hillary. It’s been suggested that he had an earlier gay relationship, and I don’t know if it’s true, but she evidently had the whip hand over him.
A bad end to someone who might otherwise have been remembered as a solid conservative and a good leader. But hillary leaned on him, and he did his deal with the devil at the impeachment trial. And then she leaned on him again, a few more times, and he had little choice but to obey.
He brought the bacon home!
Non-conformists are fine, I’m one, but I want more Dr. Tom Coburn Conservatives, not Gene Taylor “all-over-the-map’rs.” It wasn’t either Conservative or non-conformist to vote for Pelosi.
With Shepard Smith??
Trent wasn’t gay, just spineless.
I used to live in Oxford.
Yes, I went to high school with Shephard. He’s three years older than me, and well he sang in the choir and stuff like that. I need to post some of his high school pictures some day.
The other thread posted on the topic Kaslin was anonymous sources announcing the Wicker appointment. This that you posted is the official announcement by Haley Barbour. Basically it’s the same story, but isn’t anonymous sources.
He also voted against Gephardt-I can't think of any other incumbent Dems, maybe Goode when he was a registered Dem. and Hall-and was the only Dem. to vote in favor of all four articles of impeachment drawn up against Sir Slickenstein.
I'd prefer to have 535 Tom Coburns in Congress myself, but I'm realistic enough to know that won't happen anytime in the near future.
If Gene Taylor was the worst the Dem. Party had to offer I would be a happy camper.
OOOPS! My bad. Since I was on last this was posted...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1946385/posts
Sorry ‘bout that.
Don’t let the double posting nazis get you down. Many of us appreciate it when someone reposts an interesting article that we have missed. Some of us have a life.
Thanks.
......Lott will be remembered for his naieve belief that power can be “shared” with the lying, shameless, greedy, soulless thugs known as Democrats......
Think Harry Reid and Tom Dashle and then rethink that statement. He had nothing to work with any more than Harry Reid. As a matter of fact, with many RINO’s in the mix, he actually had less.
“At the same time, I hope my constituents and colleagues view me as a pragmatic problem-solver.””
The term, pragmatic problem-solver, always bothers me. I take it as code for “will cave to liberals if the pressure is too great”.
Well, actually, if we had gotten all of the over 40 or 45 ACU rating-voting Democrats (which was around 16+) to vote for a "Conservative" Speaker, we could've done so. Absent that, Pelosi didn't need Taylor's vote, and a vote against her far-left radicalism (she was certainly well to the left of Gephardt) would've been far more respectable. As it was, when he voted for her, the entire Democrat side broke out in applause. He was voting with the herd. He needs to be defeated next November. It's absurd a district as hyper-GOP as his elects a Pelosi-supporting rodent.
“If he has Lott’s “conservative values” we’re screwed again.”
Correct me if I’m wrong, but wasn’t Lott a pretty good conservative when he served in the house? I think it was going to the senate that weakened and corrupted him.
If you were to compare Lott's record to that of Taylor, excluding procedural votes, Lott does not fare well.
I’m not sure if Larkin Smith’s widow had been the nominee she would’ve won... actually, I’d lay odds she would’ve lost flat-out. You have to remember he hadn’t even been in Congress an entire year before his plane crash so he wasn’t fully established in the seat. When Smith’s widow ran a year later, she was absolutely obliterated by the ludicrous margin of 81-19% (!) by Taylor (as it was, he won the special election by a 2-to-1 margin). I cannot imagine under any circumstances she could’ve gotten above 50% in the special given that drubbing she got. 19%, I mean we get higher GOP percentages in Massachusetts and ultra-rodent districts than that.
That can't be good.
Roman Senate............If Wicker goes in thinking he can be friends with the left he will become a man of not much value. there, I said it and did not use one mean word, my new years resolution, try to remain calm at all times
Wasn’t Wicker part of the Class of ‘94?
Looks like a pretty good choice.
Will the Republicans have any trouble holding his House seat? When is the special election?
So do I,. but certainlywe would prefer teh Taylors to hardcore, down-the-line libs. If we could turn the lib seats into Taylor types, turn the Taylor-type seats into "moderate conservatives", and turn those seats into Coburns, we'd win most of the battles.
I don’t think that is for you to judge
In other words it wasn’t the same article. So I don’t see any reason why Guru said it was already posted
Why not?
Thank you for posting. I did not see the “supposed” last posting so I for one am greatful that you posted this again for us. Happy New year!
No he's not, he's just a typical southern RAT who values party over principle. Just like "conservative" Zell Miller voting for to have the reigns of power to Tom Daschle but suddenly becoming Mr. Principled Right-Winger the moment he wasn't up for re-election and his vote didn't count anymore.
yeah, those FBI files must be a b#tch to ignore, huh?
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