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]

Bush may have to bomb Saddam before Lott is out of the news, if he stays. He wont.

[McGavin999]

My personal impression of this is as follows:

Lott will step down gracefully and Frist will be elected ML. Know why?

If Nichols is elected, Chafee quits and if McConnell is elected McCain quits. Frist has already stated he intends to leave at the end of his term. That leaves 2 years for Lott to rehab his image and show he can lead. IMHO that would be the best outcome of all.

It'll take the issue away from the dems, give Lott a chance to fix this mess, keep the RINO's in check and allow us to get on with business.

[marajade]

"I think hate crimes legislation is a horrific idea."

So do I... You may have a different level of meaning of hate than I do... and the next person ...

[ambrose]

They've got to know it's false by now.

Doesn't matter. By now, their "flock" is nodding their heads and saying "mmmm hmmmm" each time they make the false statement, a la Pavlov's dog.

[marajade]

I thought I heard that a conservative owned BET?

[rintense]

Like I said. If he was a weak leader, he should have been voted out long before now.

[Torie]

Ya, the exchange frankly was one long commercial as to why modern mainstream conservatives who believe in race neutral equal oppotunity for everyone, need to ponder as to just how inimical Lott might be to their goals. But it was a commercial in part. Bond was quite devastating though, and Specter had his own agenda, which did not involve trying to rehabilitate the Lott of the past, and by past I mean up until earlier this week.

[marajade]

"If he was a weak leader, he should have been voted out long before now."

I agree...

[BuddhaBoy]

Robert Johnson is his name, I think. It doesn't matter. Lott will not get a word in tonight. He will be heckled, shouted down, laughed at, and not get his message across at all. Black audiences are brutal. Ever watch Showtime at the Apollo? This is going to be a train wreck.

[TLBSHOW]

here is Jim Robinsons take on the matter.

Who cares? Mostly you have the "party of personal destruction," led by the socialist black caucus stirring the cauldron. Aided and abetted, of course,

by assorted Lott haters of the right

(of which I admit to being one, but do not join in this lynching).

This is a public hate crime in process.

Jim Robinson

[Howlin]

I personally thought he was weak before; power sharing comes to mind.

[Torie]

Specter didn't mention that on his punch list. Hate crimes, title one, what ever that is (something about housing?), and a couple of other things.

[ambrose]

The race whores are having a field day on this.

[steveegg]

He didn't even think he had done anything wrong for days and refused to address the issue at all.

Tom Daschle didn't either. Dick Gephardt didn't either. They BOTH said "Well, some of us say things we wish we hadn't."

This whole thing became a big deal when Maxine Waters got involved, and the "canonized conservatives" saw an opening to run Lott out of the Leadership.

This became a big deal once Mary Landrieu won in Louisiana and Daschle realized that he was only one leaper and one retired Pubbie Senator away from not having to leave his illegitimate "majority" leader's office without the intermediate charade of power-"sharing". I believe that Daschle has his one leaper, and only one leaper; thus the Left's focus now is on Trent Lott.

The Right realizes that Lott is anything but a leader, and realizes that he doesn't have the backbone to even try to look like he's leading anything with anything less than a non-existent 60-40 supermajority (much less a fully-expected 50-50 split). You and I have gone around on this a couple times already, sinkspur, but the only way that anything resembling a conservative agenda is going to make it to the Senate before Daschle manages his illegitimate "majority" (yes, that dark day is only a matter of time and no longer a question of if, no matter what happens with Lott) is if Lott were to take a seat back on the bench and some Pubbie with a spine were to lead the Senate.

[OldFriend]

The truth about Lott's life since he grew up is not something the hustlers on both sides of the aisle would care to have revealed right now. Better to throw a true friend overboard and appease the likes of Marxine Waters.

[rwfromkansas]

2 weeks? Wow. Well, I am joining the call to resign then or face new elections. I always had supported new elections, but never him resigning (I thought that would implicity be an admission the entire GOP is racist). But, he is permanently damaged with this going on for two weeks and I would like to see him gone any way possible under the Senate rules.

[Balata]

Well this thread is about Lott, not Bush... I think Bush will be okay if Lott retains power.

My comment was about Lott. I said Lott is the sponsor for the Pickering nomination and when this comes up again this nomination will be overshadowed by Lott's comments. This will then happen over and over and will work against Bushes efforts and the party as a whole.

IOW, Bush will not be ok if Lott retains power.

[BuddhaBoy]

I think the Specter's and Chaffee's of the Senate are the most worried over this. Lott is their champion compromiser, and under Nickles or Frist, they are going to be ignored. I don't think they will leave the party, but they are going to lose a great deal of influence.

[rwfromkansas]

It is more than the comments........it is about Lott's constant inability to think before speaking, his ineffective style, and how damaged he will now be; he won't be as effective in getting the President's agenda through.

He should not leave for the comments (which were NOT RACIST), but for the other reasons.

[marajade]

Well maybe Lott will get some credit for doing it... I mean if he's going up against an audience that must take some fortitude...