LOTT SAID IT BEFORE (Drudge Siren)

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[walrus954]

After a fiery speech by Thurmond at a Mississippi campaign rally for Ronald Reagan in November 1980, Lott, then a congressman, told a crowd in Jackson: "You know, if we had elected this man 30 years ago, we wouldn't be in the mess we are today."

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[P8riot]

Lott's a wimp anyway. We need someone with some nads to be Majority Leader.

[sinkspur]

Do you really think Lott would have been elected Leader had this information come out before hand? Honestly?

It did. He said this in 1980. Drudge got it from somewhere.

Why don't you just admit this is a burr under your saddle from impeachment?

You have ZERO objectivity on this issue, Buddha.

[mike_9958]

"I think Lott is simply talking about how conservative Strom was and it had nothing to do with segregation"

Excellent point.... I agree.... this story is stupid and very frustrating.

[DB]

He does it by simply not running for majority leader.

[Paladin2]

Lott should be praised by the 'Rats for supporting a 'Rat (even if only formerly so aligned).

How Bi-partisan of Lott (more praise due from 'Rats - it's a 2fer!).

[ApesForEvolution]

AABT - Almost Anyone But Trent. Who knows what Drudge has, the bottom line is Vacant Lott used up all the political Leaedership capital he had left for the GOP Senate.

[BuddhaBoy]

I agree with you. Lott has killed the black vote for Republicans. Freepers are helping him, based on some of the comments here.

[Poohbah]

You've said that before. It doesn't obtain any more now than it did 444 times ago.

And I will keep saying it until it penetrates that mass of granite that somehow got inserted in your cranial vault (they must've been back-ordered on brains).

[Commander8]

If I were Lott, I would not have apologized, that was the only wrong thing he did. It was a sign of his inherent weakness. He would rather do the popular and convenient thing than the right and moral thing because he wants to continue recieving invitations to cocktail parties. Most senators are like this.

[kcvl]

Jerry Oppenheimer s new book STATE OF A UNION: INSIDE THE COMPLEX MARRIAGE OF BILL AND HILLARY CLINTON


In one particularly shocking passage in the book, Oppenheimer quotes a campaign official who describes an angry attack by Hillary in which she screams at him, "You fucking Jew bastard!"

Two sourced eyewitnesses confirmed to Oppenheimer that they heard the verbal assault.

[Dick Morris is not the campaign official.]

"One anti-Semitic slur slung in anger hardly defines a person, and Hillary has always had a tendency when angry to go for the gut," Oppenheimer writes.

But, unfortunately, according to UNION, that was neither the first nor the last time Hillary had used such a slur. And there is a darker side to the story.

In probing Rodham family roots, Oppenheimer writes that Hillary paternal grandmother was known for her violent antipathy toward Jews and Catholics, something Hillary s father heard while growing up.

Oppenheimer discovered from family sources a vein of anti-Semitism that was sparked after Hillary s maternal grandmother got married for the second time to a Jew, a Chicago businessman named Max Rosenberg.

According to the book, Hillary s mother, Dorothy Rodham, held a life-long grudge against Rosenberg, and made Jewish slurs, according to an on the record family member quoted by Oppenheimer.

When asked about Hillary s Jewish connection and the Rosenberg marriage, Hillary s brother, Tony, told Oppenheimer firmly, "It was no big deal. In our family, with my brother, myself, my sister, my mother, my father, we're not Jewish in any way, shape or form."

[P8riot]

He's a damn sight better than Lott. I like him alot. (no pun intended)

[mike_9958]

"Lott has killed the black vote for Republicans. Freepers are helping him,"

NEWSFLASH the black vote was already gone..... take a look at the last election....

[rs79bm]

Phewww, this guy has problems. He's toast IMHO.

[headsonpikes]

Prudently succinct post of the day bump. ;^)

[Poohbah]

If I were Lott, I would not have apologized, that was the only wrong thing he did.

Well, then, you have nothing to complain about, because that wasn't an apology.

[ProudGOP]

YOU think he's an idiot because you're nursing grudges from impeachment.

I have three words for you:

Power Sharing Agreement

[P8riot]

I thought you said Don Rickles. LOL!

[habs4ever]

I think so.

[ApesForEvolution]

Lott's toast. Sorry it had to be this way, but he should've NEVER viciously gone after the Leadership position and then rigged the Leadership process. Back to business, but only after Lott lets a leader lead.