Lott's feeding frenzy

TownHall.com ^ | 12/16/02 | Robert Novak

[neutrino]

This is a classic case of Republicans eating their own. Democrats gather around disgraced colleagues, most famously Bill Clinton, but also Sen. Robert Byrd, the Senate's senior Democrat. Unlike Lott, Byrd used overtly racist language, but got away with it.

Exactly. We eat our own. The demoncraps are loving this, you know; does our foolishness know no bounds?

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

The problem with Lott resigning is this: who would be his friend at that point? He would betray everything he stood for. It would trigger an instant friendship adjustment. If he holds on as a back-bencher or gets a committee chair to content himself with until the end of his term, then he stays strong. It's ok if he flirts with the idea of leaving. That gives him leverage and sympathy. Actually resigning? He'd have to be quite an emotional and selfish creature to do that.

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

One last point. If Lott were to emphasise how he transformed from segratation to civil rights, that would help. How much it would help, I don't know in the short run. In the long run, it would help trmendously. FReegards....

[alnick]

How can we ever address the failures of the democrats approach to race when we dare not ask the questions that need answering?

How can we ever address the failures of the democrats' approach to race when we give our tacit approval of our own senate majority leader publicly pining for the "good old days" of lynching and segregation?????

[alnick]

This debacle can be laid at the hands of eastern views that they still hold from the civil war. They view all southerners as racist, regardless of anything to the contrary. All southerners know this and none of us like it. In fact, I resent the hell out of it!

Which is why I resent the hell out of Trent Lott setting us back decades in public perception of Southerners and Republicans on race relations with his thoughtless, stupid comment.

[Piquaboy]

On top of all the other negarives that he has, he uses to much hair spray which contributes to global warming.

[dogbyte12]

The thing that bugs me about Trent Lott is that his words state that he basically believes the republican party was founded on bad ideas.

For Trent Lott, with his efforts to secure Jefferson Davis' desk, restore his citizenship in the US, to call the civil war... the "war of Northern Aggression" is all fine and dandy, for an unreconstructed democrat. Abraham Lincoln was the guy opposing Lott's hero on the political and physical battlefield.

Let us not forget that there was a fine Republican candidate for President in 1948. Anybody ever hear Lott say that he thought Dewey would have made a good president? Lott claimed on Larry King, he knew squat about Dewey.

There are democrats who left the republican party over issues such as abortion, taxes, etc, and those who left for "other reasons". Since Trent Lott seems to long for the days of democrats Jefferson Davis and Strom Thurmond, what kind of a republican is he exactly anyways?

[Edit35]

What if a political leader, of either party, one day decided to try and cheer up an old German WWII soldier at his 100th birthday party by saying ...

"Gee, I'm proud to have supported Adolf. And if he had won, this world would have been a better place with a lot less problems."

All hell would break loose overtop of that politician's head, would it not.

Listen, regardless of the distasteful prospect of letting racial politics dictate the US Senate's leaders, the Republican Party simply cannot allow someone like Trent Lott to be the face of the GOP.

I struggled with this all week, as I'm sure most thinking political junkies have.

Lott must go. It is the only way to stop the bleeding.

In fact, when Lott steps down, it will put the onus squarely on the Democrats, highlighting their duplicity in this entire matter.

Just like the old phrase, "God works in mysterious ways." I think this can be applied to politics also and could end up a plus for the GOP.

[Maynerd]

"republicans will never learn will they? They need balls"

You confuse "balls" for stupidity.

[ApesForEvolution]

"I want to say this...we conservatives tried to have Lott removed...and we're proud of it...and if the rest of the party had followed our lead, we wouldn't have had all these problems over all these years..."

LOL! T_T, you're a classic (and I mean that in the best possible way).

[ApesForEvolution]

Best post on the subject I've seen today. Exactly the point.

[ApesForEvolution]

Any more brilliance in this aisle? Tooth, I believe you set the trap, the bait was taken and you caught yourself one. Of course, it's the love for our fellow black Americans that leads some to say, regardless any positives, that segregation was bad policy for blacks. Even Lott's defenders have no defense.

[wardaddy]

Well well. I'm glad to see you decided to wade in. You've done very well. I'm sorry I missed it all "live".

Glad to hear someone claiming JR is not on the Lott sacrifice bandwagon.

[wardaddy]

You're not alone.

[wardaddy]

when Teddy Kennedy KILLED his probably pregnant girlfriend

Both Jamie Whitten and Sonny Montgomery confided to my dad over 25 years ago that what you are saying here was quite possibly the case.

[nopardons]

I'm here, because you sort od shamed me into replying . How could I have kept still, after being told that my help was needed ? :-)

As to MaryJo...it was whispered and whispered and W-H-I-S-P-E-R-E-D, before and after the , errrr, ahem, cough cough, accident, that she was preggers by Teddy. I used to think that it was common knowledge.