ABC News Reporting Lott Says He Has Votes to Remain Leader, Will Not Step Down

ABC NEWS Radio Report ^ | December 17, 2002 | Doug Limerick

[ewing]

No text yet, just a radio report at the end of Rush's show.

Must be worried about the Russert report this morning that he is 'Far' from the 26 votes needed for a Senate Caucus victory.

[Howlin]

This is the one I used:

info@rnc.org

[deport]

Lott and the Courts

The fall out is just beginning...... But then 56% of the Republicans say Lott should remain as SML. 35% say move on.... 9% don't know what they think.

[Austin Willard Wright]

I still don't think Lott will quit. I doubt he could show his face around his Mississippi GOP friends if he did that.

[Austin Willard Wright]

By quit, I meant resign from the Senate.

[Nita Nuprez]

Political overkill for a thought crime is not the way to go.

Terminal Stupidity  is not a thought crime, it's a long-term, incurable disease from which there is no escape but political death.  In this case, demotion from a leadership position is the definition of "political death."

All of you who feel morally superior to Sen Lott should ask yourself: Have you ever said something terribly wrong? Have you ever had racist thoughts? Have you ever said anything racist? Oh, by the way how do you define racist? Is it a permanent condition or one dependent on time and circumstances?

I don't know if Lott is racist or not; I can't read his mind.  But it is now evident to everyone but the dead that he is Terminally Stupid.

Firing Trent Lott will not solve one problem, not garner any more votes from the African-Americans nor make you feel really great about yourself more than a few moments.

Firing Chester will make lemonade out of lemons; I'm not in favor of pandering to any particular group of people to win their votes, whomever they may be; and yes, at the risk of sounding like an MMPI case study, the firing of Chester Lott will just fill me with warm fuzzies and tingly sensations for years and years to come.

[dfwgator]

Conservatives are about to get screwed no matter what we do. We may as well take the opportunity to jettison this ineffective leader while we're at it. At least something good can come of this.

Exactly. And the first thing the Rats will say after Lott is jettisoned is that, "they only got rid of him, because he wasn't as good at hiding his racism as the rest of them were." It doesn't matter, they will spin it one way or another to fit their agenda.

[ApesForEvolution]

"WOW....Shep just brings up the fact that OReilly is trying to expose some of Jesses dealings and asks him for a comment!!"

I'd love to see Jesse the race pimp Jackson try to extort Rupert Murdoch and get his teeth kicked in.

[Blood of Tyrants]

he'll be busy overcompensating to prove he has changed.

I don't see how he can OVERcompensate. The Republicans have given the Rats virtually everything they wanted. Bush calls it "stealing issues". I call it "embracing the liberals' agenda".

[EternalHope]

Lott was trying to say nice things about a 100 year old senator, and screwed it up. Then he screwed up his apologies. THAT is not why he may be about to be ousted.

Lott has done a lousy job as Senate Republican leader. THAT is why Trent Lott needs to go.

[Grig]

Someone needs to tell him the Dem's don't get to vote in this one.

[mewzilla]

Well, let's put it this way...If there's a tinfoil hat aspect to this mess, I could see ol' Trent being persuaded to quit since the Dems efforts at weaking him, with Lott's own able assistance, have clearly gone too far. The only way the Dems can now make hay is to try to force him out completely and get another Senate seat under their control. If that happens, I could see at least one Dem Senator who's had a bellyful changing his party affiliation.

[ApesForEvolution]

"Look at the MESS Trent Lott has gotten us into. I am just furious. Just furious!"

But it was just some comments about an old man at a birthday party. < /sarcasm >

Honestly, I'm getting disappointed with all FReepers coming out with specious, quasi-arguments about how segregation was a bad idea. Trent opened a SAMS CLUB size of worms...

[texasbluebell]

I wonder if there's any connection between this and the milder tone Ari Fleischer took towards Lott today.

I don't know. I heard the Pres met today with Hastert, though Lott was not included in that meeting.

[spectre]

He absolutely refuses to go on Bill O'Reilly's program.

After Sheps remarks today, maybe Jesse will never appear on Fox again, if we are lucky.

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[Austin Willard Wright]

I honestly don't think that the Democrats can force him from the Senate, certainly if he doesn't want to go! Lott can be dumped as ML through a vote. He can't be dumped from the Senate in the same way. If there is even an attempt to censure him or bar from a committee chair, the pubbies can go full bore on the Robert Byrd issue.

[brydic1]

It truely is a no win situation for conservatives at this time. But if we can persuade Lott to vacate his position, we will be in a very good position to hammer the liberals for their hypocrisy in allowing Jackson, Sharpton, Byrd, Hollings etc to use racial slurs without so much as a by your leave from their leadership.

[ApesForEvolution]

Of course it isn't worse. The media's duplicity is not in dispute here. What is in dispute is the ability of Trent "Lott to lead a conservative agenda. Most here would argue Lott was never on board with said agenda to begin with, and he's certainly been weakened by this spectacle - whether it's fair or not.

Conservatives are about to get screwed no matter what we do. We may as well take the opportunity to jettison this ineffective leader while we're at it. At least something good can come of this."

Worth bumping.

[txrangerette]

Rush revealed that Nickles is about to
suffer the "Lott Treatment".

"The Gun" will simply be Nickle's
voting record, said to be worse than
Lott's on racially charged issues.

A major article is coming out on him.

Next will be WHOMEVER is in line, too.

What say you?

[edsheppa]

The problem is Lott just backed down to the race hustlers.

Given Lott's past behavior, wtf else did you expect?

[Howlin]

Well, I obviously don't agree with you that we should just surrender to them and keep Lott.