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.
Preach on brother Black Elk, preach on!! Men like Jesse Helms and Lester Maddox are principled men. The more the elite one world trash laughs at them, the more I know the Jesses and Lesters are right. There needs to be a revolution at the ballot box, or I'm afraid there will be one in the streets and in the woods.
It's time to close-ranks & work with & for who we're being given, IMO.
What eles can we do?
Anything else is only destructive & self defeating at this point.
I for one won't be responsible for doing a damned thing that'd result in putting a smile on the face of the Liberal-Socialists.
...not so much as one smile would I permit.
Also, FReepers can huff and puff, but Dole will win independent voters and some white women Democrats and even if a few pig-headed FReepers stay home, Dole will still win.
Dole isn't absent of gray matter no matter how much you say it. She graduated with distinction from Duke University and was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. She earned a degree from Harvard Law School and also holds a master's degree in education and government from Harvard. She's also a good manager--she chose Ari Fleischer as her 2000 campaign spokesman (a guy that Harvard MBA Bush picked as his WH press secretary).
Is it that you don't believe her? She says she will support making the tax cuts permanent. She supports school prayer & the display of the 10 Commandments in schools. She supported Bush's decision to abandon the ABM treaty & Test Ban treaty. She supports SDI. She believes that the drug problem is also a demand problem. She supports Prop 187. She didn't blame guns or TV for Columbine-- she blamed a lack of support for discipline in schools. She supports privatization of government activities because of superior accountability and because private enterprise only can create economic prosperity. She opposes judicial activism-- like what the Florida SC did. She supports instant background checks for gun sales rather than waiting periods while checks are made. She supports school vouchers and school choice for parents with children in failing schools. She opposes internet sales taxes.
Why do you think she's a RINO?
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Former Sen. (and current senior campaign adviser) Lauch Faircloth endorsed Dole saying “Only Elizabeth Dole can unite our party, lead us to victory and maintain a conservative Republican voice for North Carolina in the U.S. Senate,” and he said she has the integrity, common sense and strength the state needs.
Sen. Helms (at CPAC in February) said, "She'll make North Carolina proud when she walks down the center aisle in the Senate next fall.... [I introduce to you] [t]he [next] new conservative Republican senator from North Carolina, Elizabeth Dole."
Gag me with a spoon!
Gridlock is a good thing in government -- if the buffons can't muster enough votes to pass a bill, or if the president vetoes bills, it means the gubmint stays the same size and doesn't grow.
WAKE UP, people! The government is growing, and will balloon EVEN MORE if both the executive and congressional branches of government are in complete and utter alignment. I have to don my flame retardant suit to say this, but I think my favorite arrangement is a democratic president and a republican congress. I don't get all bent out of shape over social issues, and gridlock is welcome over farm bills, abstinence education, some stupid marriage incentive, "faith-based" services... all of this costs my and your hard earned money.
I just want government out of my life as much as possible. I don't see that happening anything soon, so that's why I say gridlock ALL THE WAY.
This is turning into more of a rant than I wanted, but I'm so sick of how much of our money gets spent on programs, boondogles, "initiatives," for the chilldrun, WOD -- the figures are astronomical. For a comparison, look at how much a multinational corporation (Intel, IBM, etc.) brings in each year in revenue. Now go look at your favorite government teat and feast your eyes on how much it costs. It's beyond the pale, and not getting any better.
I also note that you are not up to refuting the policy reasons for Republicans to reject the Trust Fund for Senate campaign.
The primary is yet to be held. You can do a lot better than clueless and spineless Giddy.
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