Don Nickles Calls for New Senate Leadership Election to Challenge Lott

Fox News | 12-15-02

[rightwing2]

Fox News just reported that ABC reported that Nickles has called for a new Senate leadership challenge to Trent Lott!

[BuddhaBoy]

How do you know that Nickles didn't receive a phone call telling him exactly what he should do this morning?

Do you think your President is a traitor, Sink?

[RedBloodedAmerican]

He's an opportunist. That makes up for lack of character or leadership and sheep like that in a person.

[RedBloodedAmerican]

BTW Keyes is the same way.

[sinkspur]

You obviously don't know him. Senator Nickles always measures twice, cuts once.

That's a Ross Perot phrase, another man who lets his shotgun mouth get ahead of his BB-gun butt.

[RedBloodedAmerican]

...oh, and Klayman. Funny how you see the same people over and over following these type of people around like puppies.

[Chancellor Palpatine]

It goes even further than that. Seems ol' Chester was a persistent voice for segregation in his fraternity, and an activist for its continuation. As a young lawyer, he hosed a friend, working for a segregationist gubernatorial candidate which won. Later, he wooed people from segregationist groups and the probably neosecessionist SCV. He made an interesting statement at one time, calling the GOP the true intellectual heir to the principles of Jefferson Davis. Apparently, there was a small brouhaha in 1980, when he'd made similar remarks about Thurmond's candidacy.

He seems to show a pattern of apologizing and saying the right thing, then going back to his roots. He's a chameleon, and utterly untrustworthy. Frankly, I'm disgusted that he was selected for a leadership position.

Here is something else - if he doesn't understand why people would be angry about Strom Thurmond's 1948 candidacy, or why black might despise the Confederacy and its symbols, then he has a problem that goes beyond mere bad manners.

[John Lenin]

Haven't you heard? McCain wants to be leader...
You mean McCain wants to be President, and he will sell Bush down the river.

[McGavin999]

Lott could serve on 5 or 6 boards of Mississippi companies who would love to have him and for which he's done a great deal in his time in Congress.

Not if he hands the senate to the democrats they won't. Ask the dairy farmers how happy they are about Jeffords. Even a dem owned firm wouldn't touch him with a 10 foot pole because of the backlash.

If this man loves Mississippi, he'll sit down and become the chair of a nice, influential committee. To do otherwise would harm his state and he knows that.

[habs4ever]

Shocking! Send out a fax ;-)

[Credo]

Lott has clearly revealed that he cares only about Trent Lott. An honorable man would resign rather than resort to craven and obviously insincere apologies.

Here is a post of the extracts from Mississippi law on filling a vacancy in the US Senate - Missippi Law. Governor is Ronnie Musgrove. He will appoint an interim democrat. He then must call a special election. The timing of the election is dependent on the timing of Lott's resignation. If Lott resigns while the Senate is not in session, Musgrove MUST call the election in 90 days. If Lott resigns in Session the special election for Senator will take place on the next regularly held Mississippi General Election which is Nov. 4 2003. (Mississippi's governor & other state offices are up then).

Either way an interim would have to assume office and stand for election in short order. Lott's resigning would not not eliminate the majority, but may cause someone like Chafee to switch. Chafee may not want to switch knowing the GOP will revert back to Senate control even with his switch in less than a year.

Lott IMHO won't resign his Senate seat. One thing he is not is a man of principle. Too much pork to shovel around on the Commerce Committee.

[YaYa123]

Trent Lott should be ashamed of himself. No one is asking him to give up his senate seat, just gracefully give up leadership, and do it for the good of the party and the country.

Trent Lott was a failure as minority and majority leader...easily made the fool by Tom Daschle...and now that Lott has inflicted mortal wounds on himself, he simply isn't qualified to lead senate republicans.

I don't think Trent Lott is a racist, but I do think he's a silly, arrogant fool.

Metaphorically speaking..."Off with his head!"

[TLBSHOW]

What If Lott Survives?

December 12, 2002


Let me run a theory by you, folks. Flip down the road a couple weeks. Let's just assume - for the sake of discussion - that Lott doesn't quit, Republican senators stay silent, and he hangs on.



The Democrats are letting loose with virtually everything in their arsenal, are they not? The media is revved up. The Democratic destruction machine is revved up to 110%. In fact, a lot of conservatives are joining this destruction machine, saying Lott's got to go. If two or three weeks or a month from now, what do you think could be said by the Bush administration and Lott? Is it possible that Lott and Bush could say, "You know, they threw the best they had at us, and we're still here. We're not untouched by it, but we survived."

What would that do to the left? If they've fired every missile in their arsenal and Lott is still standing in two weeks, what does it do to them? What does it say about them? What kind of effect does it have on them and what will the public reaction be?

We can go back into histoire, and give you some military analogies to this. There have been nations on the brink of defeat that threw everything they had at the enemy, and when that last desperate attempt to hold on failed, they were finished. The Battle of the Bulge would be a good example - not to compare the Nazis to the Democrats. No, no, no – I wouldn't do that.
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/weekend_sites/week_in_review_120902_121302/content/truth_detector__what_if_lott_survives_.guest.html

[OldFriend]

Speaking of Klayman, heard this morning that he is again suing the US government......this time because they didn't realize that anthrax could seep from a sealed envelope and they allowed a D.C. postal facility to remain open for three days after the anthrax was discovered.

[John Lenin]

Well, if the President is behind this he better come out and say he is. Because that's theonly thing that can make it legit.

[aristeides]

Kristol sounded more disgusting than usual. He was really gloating.

[cake_crumb]

"But the chorus is still same, whether it's the Democrats calling him a racist or the Republicans calling him stupid, all the American people are hearing is a lot of noise, and a noise that the Republicans have helped to broadcast."

UH...we've been calling him more than just stupid. For a very long time we've been calling him incompetent, spinless, gonadless, a twit and the best thing that ever happened to Tom Daschle...WE haven't changed our tune. The Dems just added THEIR two cents using LOTT to get to President Bush.

Haven't you noticed that the posters desperate to associate "one term president" with the name of ANOTHER President Bush have come back out BIG TIME from under their slimy rocks this weekend? Do you think it's a COINCIDENCE? it isn't.

All that said, Rickles is probably hurting himself more than helping, by coming off as a shameless opportunist. If he were SERIOUSLY concerned about Lott's veiws on race, then he should be calling for Byrd's resignation from the Senate. Equal justice. He isn't calling for that, though.

[sinkspur]

If Lott had previously stood with his party, instead of giving in to Tom Daschle every chance he got, then Bush and others would have thrown their support behind Lott, and this matter would be over.

Really? So Bush was lying the other day when he said that Lott's words were reprehensible? For Bush, this isn't about his words, but about his past leadership?

Remember George W. Bush didn't call for Clinton's conviction, either.

You'll kick Trent Lott out the door because you are still pissed over impeachment! And, if he's branded a racist in the process, you could care less.

Another "canonized conservative." Congratulations, Boy.

[RobbyS]

You wake up and and look at anyone on the street with grey hair and ask yourself: What do they really think about blacks? Some like Ole Strom have adjusted to reality. Others are old segs who have simply gone into the closet. Segregation was not simply about separate bathrooms and separate classrooms: it was legislated white supremacy and the systematic humiliation of black people. My grandmother was from Mississippi and it was amazing to see how venomously she hated any expression of equality by blacks. Equally sad was the inability of most blacks to know how to behave as equals. They swung between arrogance and total submission.

[BuddhaBoy]

If Lott resigns while the Senate is not in session, Musgrove MUST call the election in 90 days.

::::::::::BINGO::::::::::BINGO:::::::::DING:::DING::::DING::::::

[smalltown]

No, Senator Lott has not said that he would quit if removed from the Majority Leader position.