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Trent Lott rips Ted Cruz for standing his ground, compares to Elizabeth Warren
The Washington Examiner's Washington Secrets ^ | December 4, 2014 | Paul Bedard

Posted on 12/04/2014 7:49:49 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

First Democrats, now a former Senate GOP leader is attacking Sen. Ted Cruz for standing his ground instead of compromising on key issues.

Trent Lott, a former Senate majority leader from Mississippi and now a lobbyist, dubbed Cruz one of the “problems” in the Senate and urged incoming Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to quickly “co-opt” new Republican senators before Cruz and others in the “Far Right” deputize them.

“There are problems,” said Lott, pushing bipartisanship at a media roundtable hosted by the Christian Science Monitor. “Yes, we’ve got the Ted Cruzes in the Republican Party, and we’ve got Elizabeth Warrens in the Democratic Party,” he said answering a question about which party is gumming up the Senate more.

He urged McConnell to lower the boom on the outspoken Republicans who won’t follow the GOP leadership. Top Republicans, said Lott, have to “deal with some of these members.”

He blasted the government shutdown that Cruz had a role in orchestrating. “That shutdown was one of the dumbest things I ever saw, it was a total fraud,” said Lott, who added that “I just don’t think you can tolerate that.”

He also ruled Cruz out as a potential presidential candidate. “I hope it’s a governor or a former governor. Period. In other words, no senators,” he barked.

Lott said McConnell should go to work fast on the new Republican senators. “I think the leadership should move quickly to co-opt them, bring them into the loop, pull them close to leadership, don’t let 'em drift over to the far right,” he said.

That comment won support from his colleague Tom Daschle, himself a former Senate Democratic leader. Daschle, in a reference to McConnell’s team, said, “There are a lot more people in his caucus who come with the belief that standing your ground is the right thing to do, who don’t want to compromise.”

Lawmakers like Cruz don’t think that standing for their ideas is wrong.


TOPICS: Kentucky; Massachusetts; Mississippi; Ohio; Texas; Issues; Parties; U.S. Senate
KEYWORDS: 2014election; 2016election; cromnibus; cruz; csm; election2014; election2016; elizabethwarren; fauxahontas; johnkasich; kentucky; lieawatha; massachusetts; mcconnell; mississippi; mitchmcconnell; ohio; randpaul; tedcruz; texas; thekycandidate; trentlott
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Who cares what that assclown Lott thinks?


61 posted on 12/04/2014 9:48:45 PM PST by stuck_in_new_orleans
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Beware the void of Vacant Lott.


62 posted on 12/04/2014 10:06:01 PM PST by TChad (The Obamacare motto: Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

2nd Div, you are preaching to the choir. But we have a problem. I want Cruz to be President. But he is being Palinized.... BY THE “RIGHT.” (GOPe). The left can be getting pedicures while our STATISTS do all their work.

He is brilliant. Hope he has strategies to fight the media. If we could get the truth to the voters, he stands a chance. But after a certain amount of mocking in the public eye, a candidate gets too tarnished to function.


63 posted on 12/04/2014 10:12:25 PM PST by Yaelle
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To: Yogafist

You get it. bingo. Now help us get truth to the general public. We need outside the box ideas.


64 posted on 12/04/2014 10:15:06 PM PST by Yaelle
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Bob Dole didn’t know that BOB DOLE was alive and BOB DOLE should know if BOB DOLE is alive.

Worthless old rino piles of crap need to be disposed of.


65 posted on 12/04/2014 10:41:32 PM PST by Chainsawj
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

http://www.ontheissues.org/Scott_Walker.htm


66 posted on 12/04/2014 11:02:24 PM PST by Aria ( 2008 & 2012 weren't elections - they were coups d’état .)
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To: Arthur McGowan
Why didn’t anyone ever publish that story?

They only trash their enemies.

67 posted on 12/04/2014 11:29:01 PM PST by itsahoot (Voting for a Progressive RINO is the same as voting for any other Tyrant.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Ted Cruz is an expert at winning, and if he thinks he can win the presidency in 2016, who are the rest of us relative mediocrities to disagree with him? [chuckle] After eight years of President Obama, only a towering genius will be able to undo the damage. And Ted Cruz is the only candidate who even remotely qualifies.

It will take more than "towering genius" to undo the damage. It's going to take a "will of steel" (with more than a "dash of ruthlessness") to overcome the self-centered inertia of the Washington establishment -- as has just been amply demonstrated by Messr. Lott.

And, indeed, Ted Cruz is the only candidate who even remotely qualifies.

68 posted on 12/04/2014 11:43:28 PM PST by okie01 (THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA: Ignorance on Parade)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

A true republican draw bridge. Going up or down to let the democrat/progressive garbage scow pass.


69 posted on 12/05/2014 1:01:49 AM PST by glyptol
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Lotts o’ laughs BUMP!

FUTrent


70 posted on 12/05/2014 1:16:31 AM PST by PGalt
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

RINOs are running scared.


71 posted on 12/05/2014 2:16:25 AM PST by VRWC For Truth (Roberts has perverted the Constitution)
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To: F15Eagle

He is as relevant as the Whig Party


72 posted on 12/05/2014 2:35:53 AM PST by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
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To: Raycpa
Why after being out of the news has Trent Lot surfaced? Is he going to be someone’s running mate?

He was feeling lonely and left out because nobody remembered who he was. So, he figured he'd get out there and say something stupid which would get him some much needed attention.

I bet it earns him an appearance on MSNBC.

73 posted on 12/05/2014 2:47:05 AM PST by SMM48
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Trent Lott was the guy in charge when John McCain was such a Maverick...


74 posted on 12/05/2014 3:36:43 AM PST by Dixie Yooper (Ephesians 6:11)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Thank God Trent Lott no longer gets to vote on the same things Cruz does.


75 posted on 12/05/2014 3:48:34 AM PST by stevem
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

People in MS though still believe in Trent: nothing tarnishes his image there.


76 posted on 12/05/2014 3:52:38 AM PST by Theodore R. (Liberals keep winning; so the American people must now be all-liberal all the time.)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Get lost, Trent.


77 posted on 12/05/2014 3:54:52 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Rip it out by the roots.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Lott was voted out. Who cares?


78 posted on 12/05/2014 4:12:18 AM PST by bmwcyle (People who do not study history are destine to believe really ignorant statements.)
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To: Yaelle
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79 posted on 12/05/2014 5:10:24 AM PST by Patton@Bastogne
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To: Yaelle

80 posted on 12/05/2014 8:41:37 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.)
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