Posted on 12/08/2014 7:52:38 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Trent Lott wasnt always this way.
He was once a conservative champion, who came to Washington to change the ruling-class narrative. But now hes a profile in what Washington does to you if you stay too long unless you have Winston Churchill-like courage of conviction, and few mere mortals do.
Mr. Lott was originally part of a group that included former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and Rep. Vin Webber, who were dubbed the Young Turks. They were among the chief lieutenants of the Reagan Revolution back in the day. Best known for fighting the Fraternal Order of Establishment Republicans. Led back then by men like former House Minority Leader Bob Michel, who only seemed to fight Democrats when they were on the golf course.
In 1992, Mr. Lott was one of seven conservatives who penned a letter to then-President George H.W. Bush, urging him to run a more aggressive re-election campaign. The letter boldly stated that should President Bush resort to old Republican exhortations which were tired old cliches, they predicted the American people will quickly lose interest in his candidacy. And they were right. Mr. Bush received the smallest percentage of the popular vote by a president up for re-election since 1912.
Unfortunately, these days that same Mr. Lott criticizes Sen. Ted Cruz for doing exactly what he used to do....
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
Ted Cruz has never hired male prostitutes.
Not involving a woman. Male prostitutes.
Good old Trent has always been a rino. He was called the tax collector for the democrats...
Wasn’t Trent Lott the Senate Majority leader that decided to “share” power with the Democrats when the Republicans had a slim margin? Or am I thinking of someone else?
You just don't understand. Back when the Democrats had 'The Breck Girl' Edwards with his perfect hair, The "Republicans" needed a guy with perfect hair to balance things out.
Perhaps he is being taken out of the barn again because it has always been hinted that he is gay, and the "Republicans" need a gay guy out there to balance the POTUS.
I would not say greed. That is an old liberal claim based on Corporate support. These days the Dems have wall street.
Trent Lott never was smart enough to recognize that he was a Demmunist.
When he got drummed out, I thought he got the “dirty” end of the stick - turns out he was already wallowing in the “dirt” and has finally discovered who he really is.
Trent Lott has been like this as long as I can remember Trent Lott.
If that’s true, it’s doubly tragic. As I recall, wasn’t he one of the Nam P.O.Ws who came home when the big release happened? And what was it about their imprisonment that made them go bat$h!t crazy like he and McCain seem to have done? Or was it something in DC, and not Saigon that led to it?
For a fag GOP senator don’t they already have Lindsey Graham?
Trent Lott had no character to sell out. He was always a political fraud.
The RINO’s are running out in the open now, it’s good thing.
Trent Lott? WOW, I can’t wait to hear what Bob Dole thinks.
” Trent Lott had no character to sell out. He was always a political fraud.”
I have despised Trent NOT for many years.
NOT? He never once stood up for even one conservative principle.
The blackmail file must be hot on Trenchmouth Lott.
Trent Lott sold out a long time ago. He is a lobbyist up for hire. He has no conscience.
Trents company netted 5 million last year from lobby efforts. He is owned by the Chamber of Commerce.
Thurmond's joining the Republican Party to support Goldwater in 1964, provided the spark which made the eventual Conservative triumph of Reagan possible, by bringing most of the Conservatives into the Republican Party. Before that, the division of Conservatives, between the parties, had worked to keep the Leftward trend going.
Incidentally, despite Thurmond's move in 1964, LBJ--with the help of a mass media, already hopelessly on the Left--got away with pretending to be a Conservative to hold the Northern South against Goldwater, who did carry the deep South. But the ongoing effect of the Thurmond switch, led to many future Republican successes.
William Flax
I thought David Horowitz started Discover the Networks. Was it really Tom Delay, or is that a different Discover the Networks?
Either way, what relation would Tom Delay outing Rinos have to do with Chester Lott sniping at Ted Cruz?
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