Posted on 12/14/2002 7:18:57 AM PST by NYS_Eric
And for about the one millionth time: Lott must go not because he's a racist. He's not. He must go because he's an incompetent leader who single-handedly creates disasters for his party. I would think that the minimal standard for being an effective majority leader would include the ability to avoid becoming a millstone around his party's neck.
That would almost be a good thing. The one way for the president to turn this mess into something positive would be for him to advise Lott that he needs to step down. Then if Lott not only steps down as majority leader but even resigns his Senate seat, a lot of moderate voters will be impressed with the president's dramatic demonstration that he has so little patience with nonsense on the subject of race that he acted to remove the senator even at the cost of losing the Senate. There would be a short term set back in losing the Senate, but the GOP would be well situated to enjoy a very positive outcome in the next two elections. That can't be said if Lott stays on as majority leader.
Nope, I have 20/20 vision thank you.
Or is it that you mean that anyone who doesn't agree with you has no foresight?
I don't know about that. You know another message that would send is? In two consecutive elections, voters installed GOP majorities (albeit tiny ones) in the US Senate. In both of those elections, they p!ssed those majorities away because they were too lily-livered to stand up to and refute the hateful propaganda and lies spread about them by the Democrats. They were more interested in getting the media to love them (something that will never happen) than in fighting for the conservative principles that voters put them office to advance.
Why should we keep voting for them under these circumstances? I could see a lot of voters asking this question.
I certainly would.
But what really amuses me is the moral indignation from the anti-Lottites and appeasers who having lined up with the race baiters on the Trent Lott firing squad are now totally pissed because he won't stand still while they execute him.
Hilarious.
Never underestimate an egotistical fool's capacity for self-destruction.
Exhibit A: William Jefferson Clinton
No, it's blackmail. Invertebrates don't have self-respect.
Yeah, that's right, the Dems never said anything mean about us until Trent Lott opened his mouth and made a stupid remark. So now we're supposed to join in the selective outrage and political opportunism of the race whores and socialists to torpedo a man who we feel is a lousy Majority Leader. God forbid we remove him for being a lousy leader - we might show that we stand for something. Instead we have to let our enemies trump up a phony hot-button issue and use it to define and demonize us, and then jump on the bandwagon as a show of atonement.
But I'm sorry. I forget. It's all about Trent. Nothing else matters than to save that dimwit's position of privilege.
No, I'm sorry. I forget. It's all about getting our pound of flesh four years after Clinton's impeachment. It's all about making the country-clubbers feel good by sticking it to those dumb redneck yahoos in the South, who all should have been strung up after the Civil War. And if we have to tacitly admit that our opposition's propaganda is the truth in order to get what we want, thems the breaks.
This whole thing was handled badly and allowed to get blown way out of proportion. That's because Repubs still don't know they're up against a street fighter mentality, and don't have either the will or ability to respond in kind.
What Repubs should have done was to strongly question the intelligence of anyone who believed Lott still subscribed to the "Dixiecrat" line re segregation. He NEVER stated in his praise of Strom Thurmond that a 50some-year-old segregationist platform was the primary (or any other) reason for his speculations about a Thurmond presidency. That was an inference drawn by journalists!
Damage is done, though - but will the Pubs ever learn?
The actually MS statute regarding this was posted earlier:
Mississippi Statutes on interim US Senators.
It would be the driving force on the significance or insignificance of a Lott threat/bluff.
This is why I think Lott is bluffing. The threat to hand his seat over to a democrat rings hollow, because the interim Musgrove would appoint has to stand for election in 90 days. Mississippi's special election laws won't carry the appointed Senator over to the 2004 election like the Widder Carnahan. A hypothetical interim would either have to stand for election before the end of March or if Lott waited to resign when the Senate reconvenes, the interim would have to stand in November. Either way, it would be dicey for someone like Chafee to flip knowing the interim could very well be voted out in short order reverting the Senate back to GOP control again. Remember even during the period of a Lott resignation and a hypothetical Musgrove interim democrat, the GOP still controls the chamber unless of course a GOP Senator flips. Presumably at that time there would be a less spineless Majority Leader.
If Lott is blackmailing the Republicans, he disgusts me even more. For whatever it's worth, I think his comments at Thurmond's birthday celebration are relatively insignificant. They just demonstrate a galactic ignorance and is just another in a series of gaffes how Lott acutally serves the democrats with his ineptitude. Anybody wonder why in addition to the GOP Senators, there isn't a raft of Dem Senators calling for his head. The only ones I have heard are the clowns from Massachusets and "Dung-Heap" Harkin. What about Boxer, Hillary and the rest of them? There's something there with Lott we don't know about.
I don't want to say Lott is stupid. He is the ultimate Washington insider and knows how to do the Potomac 2 step. That being said, he is not a leader that I and a lot of other conservatives trust or respect.
Wishful thinking never won an election.
In other words, he'll screw the party over twice in the same month.
And we're supposed to feel loyalty to this man?
The NAACP has once again shown their true colors. So have the Democrats. The media has worked it's charms. The print media regurgitates articles just like this one. Look at what they have done here.
Even the title trashes Lott. He's a sorry Majority Leader. The implications go beyond his recent comments. They are targeted to do as much damage to him as possible, above and beyond the seemingly endless slanderous non-truths regarding his specific comments.
This article is more of a damning revelation regarding the media and it's tactics, than plowing new ground with regard to Lott. May the media be recognized for the divisive manipulating bastard press that it is.
This nation is in desparate need of people who can clearly recognize facts and report truth. For the most part, our media has revealed itself to be incapable of neither of these duties.
The leftists in this nation have demanded Lott resign for his supposed bias. I would like to offer up the suggestion that those who are truly guility of bias be the ones to resign.
Here's a news flash of my own for our nation's media. We could use more accurate information and less editorials on more relevant topics. Just report the facts you idiots, we can assess the implications for ourselves.
Now, appologize and step down.
"Feel" about him however you want.
Label him a racist by forcing him out of the Leadership at this time, and watch him leave.
Side-splitting to see all the work done electing Republicans since before I was born pissed away over Trent Lott. Trent Lott. A two-bit hack with a big mouth whose only conviction is segregationism.
Get used to saying "President Gore" or "President Kerrey" or "President Hillery". Get ready to bend over for socialized health care, more and worse grabbing of private land with the evironment as an excuse, gun confiscation, the whole bit, just so we can make a few racist crackers happy
Real funny.
You are on the money. Those in a panic over a tribute to the one Republican most responsible for there even being a President Bush, today, show an absolute lack of understanding of how normal people, at all levels, react--and how to motivate their reactions in the ways you want--if you stick to the truth. The slavish, knee-jerk acceptance of the Leftist racial rant, that some are advocating lately, is totally absurd. Those in this panic could not justify half of the things for which they give lip service in a debate with a true College Conservative, if their jobs depended upon it.
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