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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: altura
You're right. Trump supporters and Cruz supporters love it

I just don't think that's enough to win the election.

81 posted on 02/06/2016 12:52:50 PM PST by Bruce Campbells Chin
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To: cotton1706

Cheerleader for the GOPe, the controlled opposition in the kabuki/UNIPARTY production/program.


82 posted on 02/06/2016 12:53:44 PM PST by PGalt
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To: cotton1706

who? Only name I recognize is Cruz. The rest must be used up has beens.


83 posted on 02/06/2016 12:59:34 PM PST by cableguymn (We need a redneck in the white house....)
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To: cotton1706

For telling the truth? You are a big part of the reason America is slowly dying, POS.


84 posted on 02/06/2016 12:59:47 PM PST by alstewartfan ("I came back as a large hippopotamus." Al Stewart)
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To: cotton1706

Another ringing endorsement. Ted Cruz has all the right enemies.


85 posted on 02/06/2016 1:01:56 PM PST by Always A Marine
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To: EGPWS

I’m sorry but that is gross. Ted is no Reagan.


86 posted on 02/06/2016 1:01:58 PM PST by napscoordinator
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To: cotton1706

Another liberal endorsement...trying to top Jimmah Carter...


87 posted on 02/06/2016 1:04:10 PM PST by pookie18 (9 months until the general election...)
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To: napscoordinator

True...he never had to convert from being a Democrat.


88 posted on 02/06/2016 1:05:39 PM PST by pookie18 (9 months until the general election...)
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To: cotton1706

Groupthink is the first step on the road to hell for any nation, and a culture of never saying anything that could offend leads to groupthink.


89 posted on 02/06/2016 1:06:22 PM PST by notacentfortribute
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To: cotton1706

Who cares what that old queen says.


90 posted on 02/06/2016 1:06:23 PM PST by McGruff (Rubio quit his job as senator. Can't have a quitter as president.)
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To: cotton1706

Trent Lott was a proto-McConnell. No doubt he’d be much harder on a conservative Republican than any liberal Democrat. It was a good day when Lott was ousted.


91 posted on 02/06/2016 1:08:21 PM PST by Future Snake Eater (CrossFit.com)
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To: pookie18

I wish Crus would go over to the Democratic side. We already had one Nixon, we don’t need another.


92 posted on 02/06/2016 1:09:07 PM PST by napscoordinator
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To: cotton1706

Trent always reminded me of Foghorn Leghorn...a true Southern cartoon character...he was a classic go-along, get-along GOPe type...just like McConnell

Whatever happened to the “decorum” of the Senate...the shame of it all!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LCsiWL6gn0


93 posted on 02/06/2016 1:11:21 PM PST by HoosierWordsmith
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To: cotton1706

94 posted on 02/06/2016 1:13:13 PM PST by Paine in the Neck (Socialism consumes EVERYTHING)
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To: Bruce Campbells Chin

Not a Cruz supporter at this time, but could be should he stand with the nomination. As for Trent Lott, the word insignificant is way too good for him. I got physically sick when he grovelled and apologized in the Sen. Thurmond matter. Just get loss Trent, and leave well meaning people alone. We do not care what you think. Ole Cut & Run Trent, is all.


95 posted on 02/06/2016 1:14:14 PM PST by tenthirteen
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To: cotton1706

Well .. facts be known .. McConnell DID LIE .. RIGHT TO THE FACE OF CRUZ.

He told Cruz one thing .. and then it turned out to be a lie. I believe this was one of the times that Cruz forced a re-do on his vote .. because he had been told it was one thing, and it really was another.

This is how McConnell runs his Senate .. he lies to get people to vote for things they did not intend to vote for. It’s typical that Lott would join in with McConnell (two peas in a pod). McConnell is really “Reid the II’s”.


96 posted on 02/06/2016 1:14:49 PM PST by CyberAnt ("The Fields are White Unto Harvest")
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To: napscoordinator
I wish Crus would go over to the Democratic side. We already had one Nixon, we don’t need another.

I hope Crus does too. OTOH, Cruz should remain right where he is, but only since there's no Conservative party. If there were one, he could go & Trump could stay or join the Democrats as he's done many times before...

97 posted on 02/06/2016 1:14:51 PM PST by pookie18 (9 months until the general election...)
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To: cotton1706

Mr. Cruz thanks the dishonorable thief Senator Lott for his endorsement.


98 posted on 02/06/2016 1:18:38 PM PST by TheThirdRuffian (RINOS like Romney, McCain, Rubio are sure losers. No more!)
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To: Bruce Campbells Chin

“. . . the nastiness and lack of humility that are Ted’s calling cards. That really stinks, because I’d love to have supported him otherwise.”

Just for the record, who do you recommend we support in the Republican primary?


99 posted on 02/06/2016 1:19:05 PM PST by jeffersondem
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To: cotton1706

Trent Lott is worthless. And so is McConnell. Having said that, yelling ‘liar’ like that didn’t help the situation at all. I think a Harvard-educated, intelligent person could do better than acting like a toddler.


100 posted on 02/06/2016 1:23:11 PM PST by nickcarraway
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