You'll enjoy this picture, then. Hope you didn't just eat.
Posted on 05/30/2002 9:27:14 AM PDT by Constitution Day
U.S. Senate Minority Leader Trent Lott said he flew to Rocky Mount on Wednesday to support a friend who is an "outstanding, Southern lady," Republican U.S. Senate candidate Elizabeth Dole.
"I'm here in North Carolina to be of any possible assistance to my good friend Elizabeth Dole," Lott said to a small group of local and national reporters who met his plane at Rocky Mount-Wilson Airport.
Lott, R-Miss., came to the area to attend a fund-raising reception for Dole at Rose Hill Farm, north of Nashville. More than 125 area political and business leaders attended the reception, which raised between $75,000 and $100,000 for Dole's campaign, said N.C. Rep. Gene Arnold, R-Nash, one of the organizers of the event.
"We're very pleased with it," Arnold said. "Trent made some good comments about (Dole), and she gave a marvelous presentation. She's definitely senatorial material, and we think she's going to make it."
At a news conference at the airport, Lott described Dole as a ferocious advocate for doing the right thing, having shown compassion and leadership as the head of the Red Cross.
It can take years for freshman members of Congress to be able to get things done, Lott said, but it would not be that way for Dole because of her experience.
"She will be a leader in the Senate on the day she arrives," Lott said.
Acknowledging that another Republican senator would be good for his party's chances for regaining control of the Senate, Lott said that it was more important to have the right kind of man or woman representing North Carolina.
"North Carolina deserves the kind of leadership Dole would give," Lott said.
Dole said she would like to help Lott and the other Republicans overcome the liberal agenda in the Senate. Lott quickly pointed out that 50 bills that have made it through the Republican-controlled House have not moved through the Senate.
"When we control the agenda, those ideas will be moved," Lott said.
Both the senator and the Senate hopeful agreed they shared common values and Southern heritage. Both of them said that jobs and education needed attention in their respective states.
"Our economy is in transition," Dole said. "We've got to grow this economy. It's so important now that (President Bush's) tax cuts be made permanent because then businesses can make long-term plans."
Fresh off her 100-county tour of North Carolina that wrapped up earlier this month, Dole repeated some of her basic tenants from earlier speeches, placing emphasis on a strong national defense and a decrease in federal regulations.
"With schools, the federal government is six percent of the funding but 50 percent of the regulation," Dole said.
Dole also repeated her assertion that North Carolina and the nation need a tobacco quota buyout, but added that because of her pledge not to raise taxes that some other means of funding it would be necessary.
Dole spoke briefly on a bill that recently passed the Senate that would give the president "fast-track" authority to negotiate trade agreements that could only be voted up or down, not modified, by Congress.
"They don't want to do deals with us," Dole said, explaining that many foreign countries avoid deals because Congress can add so many changes to proposals later on.
"If we can't get them to the table, we're not going to get a level playing field for North Carolina," Dole said. "The president is following through on his commitments to textile companies."
The president had fast-track authority until 1994.
I know this is a Dole thread - she's a gun-grabbing RINO that doesn't know the Constitution. If you'd like to continue the other issue - it's always my pleasure to watch a master at work.
Your job will be easy. Stay home or vote for the Democrat. That'll show 'em.
Both parties are destroying this country anyway. Why should I help either do the deed?
I'm beginning to understand some voter apathy: there's no more vitality left in this system. It's not that a person doesn't care about this country. Rather, it is that the party/media system is going to have its way anyway... that apart from openly forcing revolution against them, there is nothing new being produced by this system but a continual encroaching of our rights.
You want that on your hands? Fine. But don't bother asking me to join you.
The truth can never be repeated too often.
You'll enjoy this picture, then. Hope you didn't just eat.
Republican U.S. Senate candidate Elizabeth Dole, center, is escorted into the Rocky Mount-Wilson Airport Wednesday by U.S. Sen. Trent Lott, R-Miss., his wife, Tricia, and staff on the way to a reception at Rose Hill Farm. (Telegram photo/Tim Harrison)
No "Lott's Wife" jokes, please. =)
The Republican party is doing North Carolinians wrong on this one. Dolt hasn't been blessed to equally share the concerns of this state as a resident in over four decades and yet claims to be a North Carolinian. If one votes for Giddy Dolt, they cast a vote for a lie - and any leadership founded on such will not succeed. If she is elected, NC deserves just what she can give, until the wiser prevail. Look at Hilarious Clintoon, for example. She doesn't "lead" NY any more than I.
I'll not vote for the "Pink Elephant" because of the lack of truth principles behind the candidate. Her lack of resolve is something obvious to anyone with more than a half of a brain who can remember. In one of her speeches, she claimed "God works in mysterious ways", but she fails to concede God never blesses a liar nor the work of their hands...
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I remember when Jeffords jumped ship and Lott said he felt--and I'm paraphrasing here--freed up to aggressively promote Conservatism because he didn't have the responsibility to lead. When the GOP retakes the Senate in November, I hope we're wise enough to refrain from placing that leadership responsibility on the RINO Lott again!!
Dole ain't my favorite Conservative Icon, but I sure would hate to lose Jesse Helms' seat to that ClintonButtSniffer Irksome Bowels...I look for Liddy to pull this one out.
FReegards...MUD
Okay. But, would you like a little salt on that wound?
I believe this happened at the CPAC conference in early January.
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