A New GOP -- Why conservatives are the most eager to dump Trent Lott as Senate majority leader.

The Weekly Standard ^ | 12/18/2002 | Noemie Emery

[MurryMom]

Thanks for not wasting many electrons on your flame.

If you think I'm cynical about the Repukies' approach to Lott's racist remarks, you ought to see Maureen Dowd's spoof of Rove and other Mayberry Machiavellis in today's NYT, found here: http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/18/opinion/18DOWD.html?ex=1041207220&ei=1&en=4584407b9c21fc4f

[KeyBored]

Hillary, is that you?

[gcruse]

I like it. Lemonade anyone?

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

If it's in The NYTimes, it must be accurate and unbiased. By the way, you should probably have learned how to do actual HTML links by now. But, at least you feel good about trying.

[Toidylop]

Murrymon can't be serious, or can she???

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

MurryMom is like Hillary, without all the warmth and charm.

[knews_hound]

Maureen Down, wow, theres an unbiased source to back up her arguement.

Perhaps she might want to refer you to some Molly Ivans too.

Each is a bastion of truth dont you know.

Clearly, they have no agenda.

/sarcasm

Cheers,

knews hound

[f.Christian]

Lott is a sweet little lamb that got too committed...friendly with the wolves!

[GOPyouth]

I hope Lott fights this and wins. It was sh!tty of the party to jump on him when he was down rather than call for leadership change beforehand or voting him out back when they chose him to lead AGAIN after the November elections. At least the President is not out calling for his head. Yes, silence can be loud, but at least they aren't calling for his head in public.

[MurryMom]

Did you sleep throught the Clinton years?

No, I didn't sleep through the years when the DJIA was skyrocketing, unemployment fell from 7.3% to 4.2%, crime rates were falling, and we didn't have an inside trader temporarily occupying the WH. It was fun being alive back in those halcyon days of Clinton-Gore prosperity.

Wish I could sleep through the Dumbya years, though. As a capitalist, my bottom line's been suffering as a result of Dumbya's policy of paying off big campaign contributors with pork barrel projects and special interest tax breaks.

[KeyBored]

"If you think I'm cynical about the Repukies' approach to Lott's racist remarks, you ought to see Maureen Dowd's spoof of Rove and other Mayberry Machiavellis in today's NYT"

No thanks - I would prefer to do something more pleasurable.

Like have a root canal.

[krodriguesdc]

How on earth can any Conservative [who isnt some closet racist] support Lott at this point?

I am not a closet racist and I support Lott - in fact, many others are starting to support him, too.

[Interesting Times]

Murrymon can't be serious, or can she???

Murrymom.

Murrymon is a ganja-puffing leftist from Jamaica.

[BobFromNJ]

Wow--Great thinking and right on!!!
Bumperino!!

[GOPyouth]

Dumbya years

This guy has his undergrad from Yale, and a masters from Harvard. Dumbya? I've asked people out in California where I go to school this question... How does it feel to be in such a tiny extreme minority in thinking that he's dumb? Does it bother you that he's been the most popular President since FDR? Does it bother you that the November elections were a rebuke of Clinton/Gore?

[ex-snook]

ABCNEWS reports "While other Republican senators have called for a meeting Jan. 6 to address Lott's future in the wake of the Mississipian's remarks at Thurmond's 100th birthday party, Chafee is the first to say outright that Lott should not continue as majority leader"

A new conservative leader meets the Weekly Standard 'standard' of conservatism. Who would have thunk it.

[krodriguesdc]

one BIG idea I am seeing in all of this is that most of you think nobody will vote Republican if Lott stays in...

boy you guys are very wrong!

[PeaceBeWithYou]

....Dumby's policy of paying off big campaign contributors with pork barrel projects and special interest tax breaks.

I guess you missed this one then.

Those special interest "rich" people you claim supported Gore over Dubya 13 to 1.

[steve50]

Sure not giving him any support either. Looks like the Bush faction wants him out to me.

[Interesting Times]

I hope Lott fights this and wins. It was sh!tty of the party to jump on him when he was down rather than call for leadership change beforehand or voting him out back when they chose him to lead AGAIN after the November elections. At least the President is not out calling for his head. Yes, silence can be loud, but at least they aren't calling for his head in public.

Hey, if you can't jump on your leaders when they make stunningly stupid public remarks and then smooch the shoes of the opposition, when can you?

And the President, while respecting the fact that this implosion concerns a branch of government other than his own, has let it be known where he stands with crystalline clarity.