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Bursting the Bubble-Sen. John Warner Proposing Bob Dole & Howard Baker Going to Lott's Office..
ABC News ^ | Decmeber 18, 2002 | Liz Wilner

Posted on 12/18/2002 8:40:53 AM PST by ewing

Don Nickels and other senior Senators privately discussed ways to ease Lott out of his leadership job before year's end to put the controversy behind the party, Republican sources said.

They said Senator Nickels and others are working on a 'soft landing' scenario to encourage Lott to step down under face saving conditions, which could include another prestigious Senate office.

Senior GOP senators including veteran John Warner (R-Va.) spent several hours on the phone discussing Lott's eventual fate.

There were also private discussions about whether party elders-perhaps former GOP leaders Robert Dole of Kansas and Howard Baker of Tennessee--should approach Lott soon to ask him to step aside for the good of the party.


TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Kansas; US: Mississippi; US: Tennessee; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: bobdole; chairmanship; goodoftheparty; howardbaker; johnwarner; longknives; lottsoffice; offerthedeal; publicrelations; rinostampede; savingface; stayinthesenate; takeit; thereaper
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To: Non-Sequitur
Well, Ted Stevens of Alaska is next in line for Senate President Pro Tempore.
41 posted on 12/18/2002 9:16:27 AM PST by afuturegovernor
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To: ewing
Senior GOP senators including veteran John Warner (R-Va.)

they ought to run that RINO off too.

42 posted on 12/18/2002 9:16:46 AM PST by putupon
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To: ewing
*WARNING*
Snatching DEFEAT out of the mouth of VICTORY...ALERT

** The midterm elections must've BLEW the pubbie party elites minds, because somebody UP THERE(RNC/DNC) Republican voters.

** Somebody in the aleged SHADOW GOV'T is postureing for a democrat Victory in 2004....(READ) Republicans were WAY too successfull in the mid-term MUST BE CORRECTED. OR whats the hell is going on in D.C.... Whos the RNC chairman AL GORE...Jeese

43 posted on 12/18/2002 9:18:08 AM PST by hosepipe
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To: ewing
Just heard McGovern is defending Lott. "He shouldn't step down", or some such comment.

Well, if McGovern is saying that, It really IS "time for Lott to go".

44 posted on 12/18/2002 9:18:36 AM PST by muleskinner
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To: dfwgator
Could Tom Hayden get past the security screen?
45 posted on 12/18/2002 9:18:48 AM PST by ewing
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To: Darlin'
Right, bit of Lott throws a temper tantrum over losing his Leadership Post and resgins before January 1..then Haley Barbour and Mike Espy will fight it out for the seat
46 posted on 12/18/2002 9:21:08 AM PST by ewing
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To: hosepipe
More like Trent Lott really never left the Democratic Party, he is a 'Rat "plant" sent to distruct the GOP at the most opportune time.
47 posted on 12/18/2002 9:21:12 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: My2Cents
How about Ronaldus Maximus with Nancy?
48 posted on 12/18/2002 9:21:47 AM PST by ewing
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To: afuturegovernor
Ted Stevens is older than John Warner?
49 posted on 12/18/2002 9:22:48 AM PST by ewing
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To: ewing
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/806946/posts
50 posted on 12/18/2002 9:24:12 AM PST by afuturegovernor
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To: muleskinner
IMO, McGovern knows that Lott is more valuable to the Rats as a pinata to bash for 2004 and now he is defending him.
51 posted on 12/18/2002 9:24:14 AM PST by ewing
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To: babygene; Austin Willard Wright; ewing
"Understand I'm not a Lott fan. I can't stand the guy, but this is not the reason to dump him. This may play into the RATS hands.

If you notice, their atacking Nichols now for being a racist."

It won't stick on Nichols.

The charge of racism has stuck to Lott, like tar sticks to the bottom of your shoe. Let's face reality. It's time to take off the shoe.

52 posted on 12/18/2002 9:25:07 AM PST by FBD
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To: Cicero
Shades of Richard Nixon. They sent a delegation like this to him, and he resigned.

That was my thought exactly as well when I read this. Can anybody remember all 4 GOP senators who were the ones to bell the cat and make that long trip down Pennsylvania Avenue, to tell Nixon that he couldn't win this one?

I know two of them were Barry Goldwater of Arizona and Hugh Scott of Pennsylvania. Who were the other two?
53 posted on 12/18/2002 9:28:25 AM PST by Paladin2b
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To: Formerly Brainwashed Democrat
We're still looking at this problem in 2004 even if Lott steps down from Leader, with the Dims trying to play the race card all over the South.

My prediction, Haley Barbour wins the Governors chair in 2003, and then Trent accepts a teaching position at Mississippi State's 'Trent Lott School of Public Leadership'

54 posted on 12/18/2002 9:28:50 AM PST by ewing
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To: Paladin2b
I thought one of them was Gerald Ford but I could be wrong..
55 posted on 12/18/2002 9:29:35 AM PST by ewing
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To: ewing
Well, of course, Haley winning the seat certainly seems an ideal solution to this mess. But I don't know that he wants to go to Washington, that may be one reason he plans to run for governor, so he can stay home. As I understand the statute, if Lott resigns his senate seat by the end of this year, then Musgrove can appoint someone to temporarily fill the seat for 90 days until a special election is held. If he resigns after 1 January then whomever Musgrove appoints holds it until the next scheduled election in November. I'm so tired of this mess and you know Mississippians are sick to death of it.
57 posted on 12/18/2002 9:36:32 AM PST by Darlin'
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To: Formerly Brainwashed Democrat
"The charge of racism has stuck to Lott"

Do you really think Lott is a racist? Based on what, the birthday speach?
58 posted on 12/18/2002 9:36:42 AM PST by babygene
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To: What is the bottom line
LOL... good one! <|;o)
59 posted on 12/18/2002 9:37:21 AM PST by FBD
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To: ewing
There is the just created Deptartment of Homeland Security Chairmanship without a Senator to staff it.. And Lott being 14th in line in Seniority (out of 13 chairs now) would be a good pick for the job.

Excellent, excellent idea. Homeland Security will be about as far away from racial issues as it could be (except for profiling of Muslims, and I can't believe that's a losing issue for the GOP). And Trent can convince himself it's a post of enormous national importance. It lets him save face, and it gets him out of the way.

60 posted on 12/18/2002 9:39:42 AM PST by Right Wing Professor
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