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Trent Lott: I’d have thrown out Cruz for ‘liar’ speech
thehill.com ^ | 2/6/16

Posted on 02/06/2016 11:42:12 AM PST by cotton1706

Trent Lott (R-Miss.) says he would take a hard line with Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) if he was still running the Senate.

Cruz, a presidential candidate, assailed Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) in a floor speech last year, accusing him of lying about a deal related to the Export-Import Bank.

Lott, who served as Senate majority leader in 2002, suggested Cruz's speech was beyond the pale. "Having been majority leader, I've never had someone stand on the Senate floor and call me a liar," Lott said in an interview with The Hill's Molly K. Hooper. "In fact, if I had been in the Senate at that time I would have moved to have him removed from the Senate chamber physically."

Lott, who is now co-chair of the public policy practice at Squire Patton Boggs, talks 2016 politics and his preferred candidate, Ohio. Gov John Kasich (R), in the video above.

(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: cruzlied; elections; juniorsenator; noaccomplishments
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To: SuzyQue

“So, he would have covered for the liar?”

In this case Lott would have been the liar, which I have no doubt he is and was. Too bad there wasn’t a Republican Senator with balls enough to call him what he was. It’s easy to say what you would have done when it didn’t happen. I believe, but could be wrong, that Patton Boggs is the largest lobby firm and that BGR, Haley Barbour’s lobby firm, is the second largest. So the two largest lobbying firms in DC are both very much against and hate Senator Ted Cruz. What a Surprise that’s as good as any endorsement has had.


61 posted on 02/06/2016 12:25:43 PM PST by duffee (CRUZ 2016)
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To: cotton1706

If Trent Lott had been on the stage at half-time of the Super Bowl and called Mrs. Clinton a whore, the press wouldn’t report it. But The Hill finds Trent when he makes a swipe at a Conservative and makes a big deal of it.

Trent, you are being a useless tool for the left. Oh, I repeat myself.

Oldplayer


62 posted on 02/06/2016 12:27:30 PM PST by oldplayer
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To: Bruce Campbells Chin

That is exactly what Trump is running on. Funny you brought it up.

Trump supporters find his bombast and wild promises ‘emotionally satisfying.’

So much so that they just love him so much.

And they love the fact that he insults, pulls no punches, goes after people with wickedness and without tact.

What Ted did was not stupid. He drew a line in the sand that has needed to be drawn for many years.

The Senate is not a boys’ (and girls) club. It’s supposed to represent the people.


63 posted on 02/06/2016 12:29:04 PM PST by altura (Cruz for our country)
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To: cotton1706

Trent talking tough with Kasich. Hey Trent, did McConnell lie, or not.


64 posted on 02/06/2016 12:29:22 PM PST by moehoward
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To: Ohioan
That's one of the many issues with Republican spinelessness that made me start wondering about them. No one in the Party defended him or Thurmond, and Lott's comments were completely harmless, being made to an old man on his 100th birthday. This all the while the Democrats were bending over backwards to heap praise on Robert C Byrd. Huge double standard.

If Lott's comments were too racist for Senate leadership, why didn't he just lose his seat?

65 posted on 02/06/2016 12:35:02 PM PST by abishai
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To: Bruce Campbells Chin

It accomplished one thing, for sure. It made me an instant Cruzbot, Cruzzer, Cruzfanboy, etc. That was the day I decided I will support him for president. Nothing that has happened since has led me to believe I make a bad choice.


66 posted on 02/06/2016 12:35:13 PM PST by jstaff
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To: cotton1706

You mean the Trent Lott who resigned in disgrace?


67 posted on 02/06/2016 12:35:47 PM PST by SeaHawkFan
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To: Georgia Girl 2

“Well Trent they called you a liar every other place. LOL!”

One of the biggest lies Trent Lott told was to claim he’s conservative, he is and has been a big government guy. The real reason he wants Cruz defeated is because Cruz has brought more attention to “Crony Capitalism” and the incestuous relationship between the lobbyist, democrats and the GOPeers.


68 posted on 02/06/2016 12:38:47 PM PST by duffee (CRUZ 2016)
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To: cotton1706

What more do people want?

What greater endorsement can there be?


69 posted on 02/06/2016 12:40:29 PM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: Slyfox

I’d guess Clinton had a stack of stuff on Lott. Lott always struck me as a Beau Brummell, clothes horse, dapper dandy ladies’ man. That’s just what my radar said.


70 posted on 02/06/2016 12:41:39 PM PST by Tucker39 (Welcome to America! Now speak English; and keep to the right....In driving, in Faith, and politics.)
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To: Bruce Campbells Chin

I appreciate such candor in congress. You do not. Lets agree to disagree.


71 posted on 02/06/2016 12:43:36 PM PST by skeeter
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To: duffee

Yes, it is.


72 posted on 02/06/2016 12:44:22 PM PST by SuzyQue
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To: cotton1706

So Vacant Lott, Mr. Let”s share leadership with the Rats, cheerleader comes out against Cruz?

Hey Choir boy you forgot yo tell us all you are a Paid LOBBIEST now.

Just like Guiliani....

Just like Bob Dole.

The only time Trent Lott led in the Senate was when he was surrendering. Then he was first in line

FUTL


73 posted on 02/06/2016 12:44:53 PM PST by VRWCarea51 (The original 1998 version)
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To: John S Mosby
I wrote a piece, at the time, for my Conservative Web Site on The Trent Lott Affair, which endeavored to put Lott & the bullies that cowed him, into a realistic perspective. His behavior & treatment within the Republican Party, were early indicators of the sort of damage that the "Republican Establishment" & Karl Rove & company, were doing to our chances for a tolerable future.

You can trace some of the present mess--particularly the present massive distrust of the Party apparatus--to the behavior at the time.

74 posted on 02/06/2016 12:46:40 PM PST by Ohioan
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To: jstaff

As long as the majority of voters agree with you, that’s not a problem. I don’t think they will, but I’m obviously not omniscient.


75 posted on 02/06/2016 12:47:17 PM PST by Bruce Campbells Chin
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To: cotton1706

Cruz spoke truth


76 posted on 02/06/2016 12:47:27 PM PST by Java4Jay (The evils of government are directly proportional to the tolerance of the people.)
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To: Popman

“Betcha, if you took a poll asking ‘Who is Trent Lott’

The vast majority of people would say ‘Who is that’”

Not around here, they would say “he’s that lying GOP-E bastard that calls him self a conservative”.


77 posted on 02/06/2016 12:47:52 PM PST by duffee (CRUZ 2016)
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To: skeeter

Not exactly. I appreciate it in Congress. I just don’t think it plays well nationally.


78 posted on 02/06/2016 12:48:24 PM PST by Bruce Campbells Chin
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To: Bruce Campbells Chin

As another poster pointed out it Trump seems to have made out pretty well by the tactic.


79 posted on 02/06/2016 12:49:47 PM PST by skeeter
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To: cotton1706

how about throwing mitch mcconnel out for the actual lying


80 posted on 02/06/2016 12:52:34 PM PST by Mr. K (Maybe people are poor BECAUSE they vote democrat.)
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