Posted on 12/16/2002 9:14:17 AM PST by Sideshow Bob
Greased Skids
With Don Nickles call for a new election for Senate Majority Leader, Lotts fate at last became inescapable. There will be a new election and Lott will lose. In a last desperate maneuver, Lott is reported this weekend to have asked the White House for an endorsement from Colin Powell. Good luck! Colin Powell only barely brought himself to endorse George W. Bush in 2000, and Bush was offering him Secretary of State. Instead of getting something from the White House, Lott had to give a guarantee that he would stay in the Senate even if defeated, thus preventing Mississippis Democratic governor from replacing him with a fellow-Democrat and tipping the Senate back to 50-50. Tough guy that Karl Rove.
This Lott business has been painful and dangerous for the Republican party. Yet Republicans have nevertheless insisted almost unanimously on accepting that pain and danger in order to hold their leaders to a moral standard. If Democrats felt the same way, the impeachment of Bill Clinton would have had a very different ending - and Al Gore would very likely be president today rather than a disgruntled author bitterly tabulating his sales. Honesty after all is still the best policy.
With Rove engineering Lott's removal as leader, the GOP might actually pass some much needed conservative legislation and approve some much needed conservative judges this year.
Let me guess; you're listening to Charlie Sykes right now.
Methinks he's right. The skids are indeed greased, BET appearance notwithstanding.
Actually, I turned the radio off to take a phone call and forgot to turn it back on. Is Charlie talking about this?
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