Posted on 01/11/2010 6:17:32 PM PST by freespirited
Nevada Sen. John Ensign said Monday it is wrong for his fellow Republicans to call for the resignation of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid over racially insensitive comments he made about President Obama.
Reid has apologized to Obama since a new book quoted him describing Obama during the 2008 presidential campaign as a light-skinned African-American "with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one."
Ensign said Monday that Reid's apology was sincere and that the Nevada Democrat regretted how his comments were taken.
"I think we need to get away from this politics of gotcha," Ensign told KKOH radio in Reno.
"I don't think there's a person walking, certainly not a politician out there, that hasn't made comments they regret," he said. "When you make those comments, as long as you take responsibility for your comments and apologize for them, I think people should accept that."
Ensign said he was angered by how Democrats treated former U.S. Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott, R-Miss., after he suggested the country might be better off if Strom Thurmond, who ran as a segregationist, would have won the presidency in 1948. Lott resigned shortly after he made the comments.
"Democrats were really wrong in what they did to Trent Lott, and we shouldn't do the same thing to Sen. Reid," Ensign said.
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This is the corrupt "Two-Party Cartel" which is owned by the elites & we out here in America have no say so. BTW it is working fine for these SOBs.
Yeah... that's worked so well for us in the past....
Good Gawd! Reid INVENTED the "politics of gotcha"!
It's called Karma, Ensign. Karma's an ugly witch and she OWNS Reid's flea-bitten hide.
Goat pictures.
The guy is right.
Do you really believe that it serves anybody to elevate politicians of any particular race and the process of Affirmative Action to the level of sanctified Sacred Cow status in American politics?
Once you set the precedent that saying anything that could be interpreted as "racially insensitive" to anybody is grounds for resignation, "What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander."
At that point, expect the Race Cards to be flying, like Peyton Manning passes, every time that anybody says anything about Democrat black politicians. (Republican black politicians will still be fair game for the vilest of insults since, by Politically Correct definition, they are "Uncle Toms".)
Besides, Reid has become the politician that Americans love to hate. We want him to stay in the Senate.
Never interfere with your enemy when he is in the process of destroying himself. ....Napoleon
Ensign?
Doesn’t he have some other woman to go screw?
Senator Ensign, STFU.
Where were you when Trent was left to defend himself? I don’t remember a peep from you or the vast majority of Republicans defending Trent. What are you, a RINO? Sure sounds like it.
Would’nt surprise me a bit.
Bingo!
I had forgotten about that. Now that you mention it, I realize this is a kiss-up.
We want him to stay in the Senate.
Who's "we", Kemosabe? Screw 'em. I want Reid gone, and the liberal turd that replaces him as the majority leader.
Nobody's talking about him resigning from the Senate...only from the Leader's Chair.
Where have you been the last 40 years???
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