Some blame Lott for tough GOP defeat in Mississippi

TheHill.com ^ | 5-19-08 | Susan Crabtree

[DeweyCA]

Is anyone really surprised by this? Lott, like so many RINOs (do I have to mention McCain?), always looked out for himself above the GOP. He has always been a self-serving twit who cares more about having a luxuriant lifestyle than about his country.

[Sybeck1]

McCollugh was the RINO in the race.

[xcamel]

Lot’s wife, however, was turned to salt.

[Norman Bates]

I do.

[Clintonfatigued]

“Lott helped get McCullough appointed to the TVA but the two later had a falling-out, according to local reports. Details of the dispute are unclear. The Hattiesburg American reported only that McCullough “refused to endorse a Lott-backed TVA initiative that McCullough found to be dubious.”

Personal things like this come into play more than any of us know. I just wish that Chip Pickering hadn’t ruled himself out for the Senate appointment.

“No matter how the dispute started, it continued with Lott supporting Davis, even though the district was always considered a Tupelo seat and McCullough, the city’s former mayor, would have attracted more of those votes than Davis would have. “

This was, in part, a regional contest. There has long been a regional and economic rivalry between the Tupelo area and the Memphis suburbs, and Tupelo-based candidates have long been elected there. While Travis Childers’ home town is Boonville rather than Tupelo, he was seen as having much more in common with the local folk there than Greg Davis, who was seen as a Memphis city slicker. It’s not so much that Davis was a bad candidate personally, but that too many people thought that the polished suburban mayor wasn’t “one of us.”

Incidentally, Davis is staying in the race.

[beaversmom]

Where have all the decent, strong-minded men gone? This country is hurting for someone like that. I really don’t see any on the horizon. I hope they are just hidden where I can’t see them. And I hope they come out of hiding soon.

[EagleandLiberty]

Incidentally, Davis is staying in the race.

For the election in November!! It’ll be time to united and DEFEATED the DEMS. Lets surprise the DEMS in the house!!

[xcamel]

Lot’s wife, however, was turned to salt.

[1rudeboy]

Lott, like so many RINOs . . . .

ACU Lifetime: 92. Yeah, whatever.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

[hinckley buzzard]

Lott’s $200,000 gift to his alma mater, the University of Mississippi,

So much for his explanation about leaving the Senate early because he had to make some money before he retired. What a chickenshit is Trent Lott.

[Selmore]

Lott - “I can’t remember the last time I’ve bought lunch”

[itsahoot]

Lott's actions were self serving and true to his form. He cheated his Country, his State, his constituents and his party.

Hard for those former Democrats to stay Republican. Phil Graham being an exception.

[centurion316]

Hopefully, this will be your last post on Free Republic.

[fieldmarshaldj]

If Davis is the nominee again, we lose again. For all those that think we can just blast a Democrat sitting in a heavily Republican seat out merely because of an unpopular Dem Presidential candidate with just any Republican nominee, I point to Gene Taylor. He’s sitting in arguably the MOST Republican seat in MS, and he’s been there going on towards 20 years and hasn’t had a close race since he first ran. He voted unapologetically for Pelosi for Speaker, too.

[reefdiver]

I won't miss Lott, and I won't miss a whole stack of so called Republicans who came in under a mantel of Conservative values and then sold out all of us who worked hard to put them in.
So now Lott will be a lobbyist , Isn't that special...

[vetvetdoug]

I apologize for offending your sensitivities. Childers ran as a Conservative and is really a flaming dishonest liberal that will vote the Democrat party line. His supporters in the State Legislators are some of the most dishonest and heavy handed Democrats one can imagine. I have nothing but disgust for Childers and those that live around me that supported him.

[centurion316]

My sensitivities have nothing to do with it. That kind of language has no place here, and you have been around long enough to know it.

[darkangel82]

Taylor’s a gutless anti-military punk. He wins because of voter stupidity and because he’s the kind of ‘rat who can win that seat.