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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[Poohbah]

Not necessarily. This could be some sort of Tourette's thing.

But the consequences of being held to a higher standard is that sometimes you gotta live it. And that higher standard may simply be having the moral courage to recognize that one's leadership ability has gone to ZERO.

[sinkspur]

That ad will KILL us.

You weenie. If Bush whips Hussein, and the economy is growing, nobody's going to listen to a bunch of race pimps.

If Lott goes, he will GO, completely, because of the humiliation.

Then we're back to power sharing with Daschle, and having to listen to to all you clowns bellyaching about how wimpish the GOP Senators are.

They're not wimps.

YOU'RE the wimp.

[rintense]

I'm not a huge fan of Lott either, but this has turned into a political witch-hunt.

Hey Drudge, where's all the past skeletons from Byrd? Clinton? Any other elected official???? This whole thing just makes me sick and reeks of a media witch hunt to make the Republicans look like the racists that the Dems keep saying we are! I'm astounded at how many people want Lott to roll over and take it up the arse when what we need to be doing is fighting back against this crap. It happened with Newt. And you think we'd learn from the past.

Apparently not. The reason that the Dems keep using the Republicans are racists card is because WE LET THEM!

[kcvl]

I will "give it a rest" when I feel like "giving it a rest". Thank you very much! I didn't realize that you were the posting police.

[Darling Lili]

Swallow his pride for the good of his party? What kind of dumbass are you?

Uh oh... namecalling?

Okay... Let me tell you what kind of a dumbass I am. I am the kind of dumbass who expects my party leaders to behave graciously at public functions.

I am the kind of dumbass who expects good Republicans to do the right thing. When they screw up to that degree, hurting their party, they should accept responsibility and step down.

I am the kind of dumbass who doesn't want to see my party "going Clinton;" kowtowing to idiotic screw-ups in the name of power.

I am the kind of dumbass who would expect a screw-up to turn around and do right by his party, after inflicting such a major wound on it.

[ApesForEvolution]

Yes, sadly, had Russert not injected Lott's stupidity into the public scene, this wouldn't be an issue. But, now it is, and Lott needs to step aside from GOP Leadership (as if he *ever* should have been there in the first place).

[sinkspur]

And if Lott not only steps down but leaves, are we really worse off in the big picture?

Yes.

Even asking the question reveals a significant political stupidity.

[RobbyS]

I am assuming that Frist headed the Senate Campaign Committee. If so, he is a helluva politician.

[ApesForEvolution]

Exactly. To the letter.

[Poohbah]

It would give Tommy Daschle another two years to convince the world that he's a blithering idiot.

[RobbyS]

Yes, but Lott is the one who stepped into it.

[Ronin]

Sounds OK to me.

[kcvl]

I dislike Lott as much as the next person. I just don't think I will jump on the Democrat wagon of "let's get him" because they say so. Pot meet Kettle...IMO!

[Texasforever]

And yes, I know we're not as bad as the democrats with their former Kkue Klux Klan Byrd, or former racist Hollings, but we have higher standards to uphold than democrats.

For what purpose? To keep blacks from voting 98% democrat instead of 97%? The "outrage" on this forum smells more like opportunistic lynching to me.

[Darling Lili]

Don't let the Dems play you :-)

I don't think I am, habs. His comment really pissed me off.

[jwalsh07]

It would give Tommy Daschle another two years to convince the world that he's a blithering idiot.

Why would Tom Daschle need to convince anybody that he is an idiot, it's self evident.

[MJY1288]

I agree, If Lott has to go... It has to be on our terms, Not the RATS. For us to roll over for the left on this issue is far more spineless than anything Trent Lott has ever done. To hell with the Liberals who want Lott gone.

[jwalsh07]

The "outrage" on this forum smells more like opportunistic lynching to me.

You caught a whiff of that too?

Stinks, don't it?

[Poohbah]

For what purpose? To keep blacks from voting 98% democrat instead of 97%?

How about to DO what is actually right?

This is a moral issue, even if it's only about Lott being a blithering idiot, because he promised to do good things for the GOP and he isn't doing them because of his stupid comments.

[ApesForEvolution]

I disagree. Lott's absence creates a leadership vacuum which should be filled with a much better leader that will take the GOP to another, higher level.