THE ATTEMPT TO UNDO AN ELECTION: I MAY BE RELUCTANTLY CHANGING MY MIND ON LOTT

dfu | 12-2002 | dfu

[doug from upland]

I have wanted Trent Lott removed from leadership since Impeachment. The spineless weasel had the votes to bring live witnesses before the Senate on national television that would have revealed the extent of Bill Clinton's sexual predator history.

David Schippers called it a SELLOUT. Schippers was absolutely correct. Could the prosecutors have changed enough minds to get 67 votes? We will never know. They should have had the opportunity to try. Lott is the one who stood in the way.

The RATS have been in turmoil since the midterm elections. They were shocked to their core. And now, Lott puts his foot in his mouth to give them the opportunity for which they have waited.

The same people who were not concerned with rape, perjury, obstruction of justice, intimidation of witnesses, etc., are suddenly concerned that a weak-kneed GOP leader (who is their best friend) made a really stupid statement last week, made the same kind of statement 20 years ago, and didn't want his fraternity integrated 40 years ago. We know what the South was like 40 years ago. It appears that Lott has led his public life since those days as someone who believes in racial equality.

Now, he is being a whiner and threatening to quit the Senate if he is removed from leadership. What a weenie. We don't want him as leader, but we need him in the Senate. It is blackmail.

Perhaps the statements will blow over soon. He is certainly damaged goods, but the GOP may have no choice but to keep him. The RATS will benefit either way. If he stays in his position, he will continue to compromise and kiss their RAT posteriors. That is Trent.

The more ominous scenario is that the GOP does the right thing to force him out. Yes, I believe if he is forced out of leadership he will quit the Senate and a RAT governor will appoint a RAT to the Senate.

So here we have the reason for the assault. If Lott stays, the RATS have an issue to fire up their base and they have a weak Lott right where they want him. If Lott goes, the Senate is 50-49-1, with the 1 voting for their team.

But it won't stop there. I suspect that the RATS are confident that either Snow or Chaffee might then see an opportunity to jump. Either of them could become an Independent and vote with the RATS. All of the effort by the GOP to retake the Senate will be flushed down the toilet.

This really is an effort to undue an election. The RATS, not surprisingly, are even doing it in time of war while al-Qaeda plans another assault on our nation.

We may have little choice but to reluctantly support Lott. Let's see how it plays out through the Christmas season (not the "Holiday season"). If he survives for another week, he may ultimately keep his post.

The real conservatives of the party, and those who really know how to deal with RATS, better sit Lott down and tell him the facts of life. If he is to keep their support, he needs to throw down his pom-poms, get rid of his light loafers, and start acting like a man. We don't need a wimp when we are dealing with the RATS.

President Bush made some strong statements as he clearly needed to do. Now it is up to the rest of the party to start fighting back. It is time to be reciting the awful, hateful, racist comments said by the RATS. We really do have an opportunity to stick it in their faces if we have the gonads to do it. There is no White Caucus, but there is a racist Black Caucus. It is no time to sit on the sidelines and wave pom-poms. Or is it pom-pons?

[doug from upland]

The real conservatives better be demanding that we get 2/3 of the money. If he is to remain, he must grow gonads.

[speekinout]

This isn't about Lott. It's about Dem tactics. The Dems haven't had this much fun since Newt was Speaker.
I think the happiest man in DC is probably Ashcroft. The Dems were all geared up to demonize him, when Lott conveniently stuck his foot in his mouth.

I'm not a fan of Lott, but the GOP can't continue to let the Dems take down GOP leaders one by one (how on earth does anyone defend against the racist label? Any defense is considered condescending, and no defense is no defense)
Where do we stop letting GOPers take the bullet and the Rats getting a free pass?

[Nebr FAL owner]

Sadly I don't believe Mr. Lott has the will to get these things done . He will be to busy selling out the republican/conservative agenda to be loved by the Dems to accomplish a da*ned thing.

[Nebr FAL owner]

Sadly I must agree

[jeremiah]

There will always be regrets, when right is set aside for expediency. Too bad Lott folds faster than a K mart lounge chair under pressure from Dims over important issues, but threatens resignation and plays hardball, when threatened with loss of prestige (loss of leadership.)

[ModelBreaker]

You're right. Mea Culpa. But this makes me so angry. I didn't wear my feet to a nub walking precincts this year just to have Trent Lott throw the Senate to the bad guys in a fit of pique. Lott has noone but himself to blame for the spot he's in. He should take it like a man.

And maybe he should stop having two martinis before he opens his mouth in public. What a doofus.

[CounterCounterCulture]

I understand and agree.

[fifteendogs]

If the republicans had all 100 seats in the senate and 435 seats in the house and the presidency, we still couldn't get a conservative agenda through. The republicans are the party of the wimps.