Lott, Nickles Civil Rights Votes Similar (Says NAACP as they search their next target)

ap ^ | 12/16/2002 | JIM ABRAMS

[Puddleglum]

By the standards this article uses they'd probably look at JC Watts' voting record and decide he's a racist.

[okie01]

"This is why it is bad if Lott steps down."

No, this is why it is bad when you have a Senate Majority Leader who can't be trusted to make a public statement without somehow embarrassing the party -- by his thoughtlessness, insensitivity and downright breathtaking stupidity.

This is not the first time Lott has done something like this, though it is certainly the most embarrassing. And, if he stays in his leadership post, it won't be the last.

As the senior Senator from Mississippi, he's less dangerous to conservatism. And an effective Majority Leader would be a pleasant change of pace.

[TLBSHOW]

By the way, the best proof of BuzzFlash's perspective is that most of the press stories included a sentence along the lines, "Despite a Democratic outcry for Lott's resignation as majority leader." Well, since the Democratic leadership wasn't calling for Lott's resignation, this appears to be a story line planted by Rove. In fact, more Republicans, particularly the right wing "amen chorus" of columnists, were the ones calling for Lott to step down in an apparent orchestrated, behind-the-scenes media strategy.

rat site

[SauronOfMordor]

Some Republicans are uncomfortable as the majority party. As majority party, they would actually have to DELIVER things. They would actually have to MAKE THINGS HAPPEN, which would be UPSETTING to some people out there in media-land.

See, as long as they were minority party, they could enjoy their perks, and get along with the Democrats, and nobody would have to get upset...

[TLBSHOW]

Bush is so smart but so dumb, his whole party has crumbled

[okie01]

BuzzFlash and the boys are certainly given to "evil Republican conspiracies", aren't they?

Somehow, I just can't see Karl Rove dictating to the editors of the NYTimes, WPost, Time, Newsweek, ABC/CBS/NBC/CNN, et al.

[TLBSHOW]

they aren't talking about NYTimes, WPost, Time, Newsweek, ABC/CBS/NBC/CNN, et al.

they are talking about this


Trent Lott: Worse than Satan (right-wing journalists and pundits acting like Girly-boys)
Cornell Review ^ | 12/12/2002 | Joseph J. Sabia





In response, the Family Research Council, National Review Online editor Jonah Goldberg, radio talk show host Laura Ingraham, columnist Andrew Sullivan and others have joined Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton in demanding Lott’s head on a platter.

Clearly, Lott was simply gushing over Thurmond’s impressive career when he made a little joke about how America would have been better if Mr. Dixiecrat had taken the White House in ‘48. Was it a politically incorrect joke? Definitely. Was it a stupid thing to say? Maybe. But I can’t help thinking that the joke ticked off exactly the right people—black liberals, hysterical Republican elites, and Mark Shields. The best part was that Lott did not even know what he was doing…his instinct just led him to say something that was horribly insensitive. Sometimes you just have to sit back and enjoy that sort of quality in a public figure.

So why are these “girly boys,” as Ann Coulter once called them, acting as if Trent Lott burned a cross on Colin Powell’s lawn? Most of them have ulterior motives.


http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/805592/posts?page=78#78

[oldtimer]

So Lott committed verbal thoughtcrime which is doubleplusungood.

Since 1948, and then LBJ and his so called "Great Society in 1964" our Country's morals have gone in the dumpster, we have millions of brothers and sisters sitting on the porch in government paid apartment rents up to $2000 a month plus other government paid benefits so they can vote rat.

Meanwhile, the rats and other leftists certainly needed a small shred to get their ratty teeth into anything at this point.

Lott needs to step down as majority leader, but stay on as a Senator, and let the voters of Missippi decide his ultimate fate.

[TLBSHOW]

shhh don't tell em that they too stupid to know!

[TLBSHOW]

welcome to fr home of clueless ones

[TLBSHOW]

Lott said he didn't think he should have to resign or be replaced, and denied that he is a racist. "To be a racist, you have to feel superior," Lott told interviewer Ed Gordon. "I don't feel superior to you at all."

Lott, sitting alone with Gordon in a Mobile, Ala. television studio, continued to insist that he didn't mean anything racial with his Thurmond comments.

"What did you mean when you say 'those problems'?" Gordon said.

"I was talking about the problems of defense, of communism, and budget, of a government that sometimes didn't do its job," Lott said. "But again I understand that was interpreted by people the way it was and I should have been sensitive to that. I obviously made a mistake and I'm doing everything I can to admit that and deal with it and correct it. And I'm hope that people will give me a chance to do so."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63937-2002Dec16.html

[oldtimer]

Now the libs have him groveling - he needs to just be Senator IMO.

We had new carpeting installed in our offices over the weekend - Hispanics, and they worked hard - very hard.

Affirmative action is an abomination.

[TLBSHOW]

btt

[Always Right]

Now the libs have him groveling - he needs to just be Senator IMO.

If he resigns, he will be labled a racists for life and every time he votes on a racial issue, every Republican who votes with Lott will be labled a racist, or even worse if Lott supports something, they will say even the racist Lott supports this. We need to stand up for Lott in this political witch hunt, otherwise we will empower the race-baiting tactics of the left. Nothing short of Lott resigning and helping the Dems take back the Senate will shut them up (and even that won't really shut them up). This is the Dems attempt to steal the Senate, like they did with Jeffords and like they did in NJ and like they tried to steal the Presidency in Florida. We must stand against it.

[TLBSHOW]

BUMP TILL YOU GET IT

[TLBSHOW]

REMEMBER IF WE DON'T STAND TOGETHER THEY WILL COME FOR EVERYONE

don't ever apologize again,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

[WRhine]

I am telling you freepers, Lott isn't the problem but racist rats are and the liberal press. Lott is this weeks dinner and next week its who ever we would favor always has been and always will be. Either we stand with Lott as a force or each one of us and who we would choose is the target, its the nature of the beast! Liberal commie democrats beast that is.

Well Said, TLBSHOW.

[oldtimer]

Good point. Hang in there Trent. Of course, the Sharpton's and Waters, et pukes, of this world along with the leftists will label him a racist which is the worst form of thoughtcrime.

[Poohbah]

Yeah, hang in there, Trent. We really need you to ensure that the DemocRAT agenda gets carried out as the price of peace on the Hill.