Lott's feeding frenzy

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

[Maynerd]

"The day I find myself changing my views of right and wrong based on whether it is a minority view, will be the day I cap myself for being a kowtowing idiot and worth less than a turd."

How eloquent. Once again you miss the point.

[kcvl]

Because President Bush left him hanging like he has done all southern conservatives. He has time to take his shoes off and join the "religion of peace" but he doesn't care about the people who worked their butts off getting him elected.

[Texasforever]

And Lott isn't responsible for anything he's said. It's all a left wing conspiracy.

How do you like it when the rabid anti-immigration guys accuse you of wanting rampant illegal immigration or even question your own status based on your screen name?

[nopardons]

In the real world, you have just witnessed a power play, by the REAL and true racists / bigots and fallen for it, hook, line , and sinker. You are aiding and abetting the very people, whom you, as a Conservative, claim to loathe. Doesn't that make you deleriously happy ?

I haven't liked Lott for a very long time. To give the man his due, he DID push through, with yoman effort and speed, President Bush's tax cuts and quite a few other great things. If he were truly as ineffectual ( forget, for now, the Impeachment trial farce in the Senate ! ), he wouldn't / couldn't have done those things.

It's long past time, that you and the other political naifs, on FR, calling for Lott's head on a platter, to face REALITY as it is and not as you imagine; after having been force fed a load of garbage and swallowing it with orgasmic delight. Like being a dupe, do you ?

[Maynerd]

"How do you like it when the rabid anti-immigration guys accuse you of wanting rampant illegal immigration or even question your own status based on your screen name?"

Nurse ! Haldol 40mg IM STAT for Texasforever.

[Cold Heat]

Oh Great! Now you blame Lott for apologising five times for something he has stated repeatedly that he did not mean to infer.

So now that you have forced him to publically decry this, he is guilty by apology.

How cute!

[kcvl]

What would you like him to do to "repent" for his "sins"? Throw himself into a volcano?

I'm sick of the double standard when no one on the left has ever apologized for anything they have said about race(which is a hell of a lot worse than anything Trent Lott said). Let's just label him a racist and throw him to the dogs. That's not right.

[ApesForEvolution]

"I want to say this...we voted for him...and we're proud of it...and if the rest of the country had followed our lead, we wouldn't have had all of these problems over these years..."

And then the rest of his ties to segregation and racists. It's not pretty, no matter how much lipstick you put on that pig.

[Tall_Texan]

I think the ones being played for fools are the folks who want to keep Lott in power. The Democrats want to weaken Lott but they don't want him to leave. He's their new Newt Gingrich. They WANT his face on television so they can pull out the race card after everything he says. They want to run ads in 2004 as to why you should elect the Democrat for the Senate "so Trent Lott isn't running the Senate."

They know attacking Bush hasn't been working very well so they have to have a different boogeyman to scare folks into voting Democrat. Hastert is too bland and Cheney and Ashcroft are too removed from the day-to-day of politics. So the only logical meanie to beat up on is Trent Lott.

The LAST thing they want is for Trent Lott to go away. Who would they have around to demonize? Tom DeLay, second banana in the House? That's not a compelling target.

Other than the CBC, you'll notice the elected Dems have shut up about Lott after realizing their destruction machine was working too well. They only wanted to soften him up. He's too useful for them right where he is to see him quit.

The real question is why some Republicans feel inclined to keep this man in a position for which he is so obviously ill-suited. Can we possibly get somebody to take his place who won't drop his shorts every time the Democrats pout about something being unfair? Can we possibly get somebody in there who treats the Democrats the way the Democrats treat us? Sounds like McConnell's ready for the job. judging from his "censure" threat...

[Stultis]

This is a classic case of Republicans eating their own. Democrats gather around disgraced colleagues, most famously Bill Clinton

Riiiiight. So we should be like the 'Rats? Should we also have embraced Nixon after Watergate? Had him running the Republican party in a major state? Let him dictate the dispersal of party campaign funds? Installed his personal shill as RNC chairman? Paid him top dollar lecture fees? Fawned over him as an all around great Republican?

If Republicans had behaved like that it would have cost us dearly (as it has the Clintonized 'Rats, even if not as dearly, yet, as it should have). We would have paid much more severly for Watergate than we did. It is likely that Reagan would have never had the congressional majority he did in the first two years of his first term. That could have meant his tax cuts, deregulation and rearmament programs would never have passed.

Against their hopes the liberal media has strenghtened the party by holding us to a higher standard. We should certainly embrace that higher standard in this case.

Even if Lott had not proven himself stupid and out-of-touch, how has he earned the right to keep his leadership position unchallenged (facilitated by the chicanery of moving up the vote last month)? Is it by shirking his constitutional duty and agreeing to a sham impeachment trial in '99? Is it by bending over to the 'Rats and allowing them to share control of a Republican majority Senate in '00? Is it by letting Little Tommy Dasshole run parliamentary rigns around him the last two years?

I will say I'm not for forcing Lott to resign, but I'm sure looking forward to his being voted out of the leadership in January. In the mean time he should get no cover.

[Jorge]

How do you like it when the rabid anti-immigration guys accuse you of wanting rampant illegal immigration or even question your own status based on your screen name?

I love it. It gives me the opportunity to reveal my identity..... and them for the racist paranoid mental cases they really are. It's funny as hell.

[ApesForEvolution]

"I want to say this...we voted for him...and we're proud of it...and if the rest of the country had followed our lead, we wouldn't have had all of these problems over these years..."

And then the rest of his ties to segregation and racists. It's not pretty, no matter how much lipstick you put on that pig.

[nopardons]

He apologised because race hustlers and power hungry Dems ( now on the losing end of the stick ) stirred the pot and wouldn't let it go. When the Dems held both Houses and Trent made the same remark, over 20 years ago, where was this outcry ?

[kcvl]

Let's just fall for the scare tactics again. NO WAY! That's what has kept them in power for so many years. It's time to stop it and stop it now.

[kcvl]

Hillary Clinton wasn't running for President twenty years ago. It didn't matter. It only matters when THEY say it matters.

Where have they been when THEIR party made worse remarks?

[ApesForEvolution]

G'night all. Should be a week and a half.

[Jorge]

"I want to say this...we voted for him...and we're proud of it...and if the rest of the country had followed our lead, we wouldn't have had all of these problems over these years..."

And then the rest of his ties to segregation and racists. It's not pretty, no matter how much lipstick you put on that pig.

Don't you get it? This is all really just the creation of some bored left wing kooks...there is nothing wrong at all with Lott or anything he's said. Incredible!

[Maynerd]

"He apologised because race hustlers and power hungry Dems ( now on the losing end of the stick ) stirred the pot and wouldn't let it go. When the Dems held both Houses and Trent made the same remark, over 20 years ago, where was this outcry ?"

He was a two bit Congressman then, not Senate Majority Leader. Big difference.

As far as I'm concerned he can stay in the senate, that's up to him. But he has disqualified himself and does not deserve to be majority leader.

[kcvl]

One left-wing kook in particular...Hillary Clinton. You may not understand how she works but I can assure you that she will stop at NOTHING to get what she wants. She married Bill Clinton didn't she? She stayed married to him even though she knew what he was. It's all about power and SHE WANTS IT BACK!(she even shaved and took his name)

[Sabertooth]

Even if Lott had not proven himself stupid and out-of-touch, how has he earned the right to keep his leadership position unchallenged (facilitated by the chicanery of moving up the vote last month)? Is it by shirking his constitutional duty and agreeing to a sham impeachment trial in '99? Is it by bending over to the 'Rats and allowing them to share control of a Republican majority Senate in '00? Is it by letting Little Tommy Dasshole run parliamentary rigns around him the last two years?

Of course, by even asking such questions, you're giving in to the ratty-rat rats. Pretty compelling, no?