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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[Mo1]

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.

If I thought for one minute that Lott was a racist and believed what the Dems and the bias media are accusing him of .. I would agree with you .. we don't need him

But I don't think he is a racist and I think that the Dems and the media are blowing this way out .. for no other reason to get one step closure to regaining control of the Senate

The man did apologize .. but he didn't use the exact words that you and the Dems want him to .. so let's just pound on him some more

Sorry .. I have not falling for the Dems trap .. these people play dirty and will use any trick in the book

[mhking]

Just damn.

[kcvl]

Trent Lott should be replaced in his next primary

Unless you live in Mississippi (people who actually vote for him)...good luck.

[ApesForEvolution]

Segregation, bad. Gay marriage, bad. Frist wins.

[Texasforever]

How about to DO what is actually right?

Because the "civil rights" movement has left us with a segregation so virulent it makes the '40s and 50s look absolutely tame. It is a segregation that is REQUIRED for the liberals to hold power and they will never let it end and we, like the cowards we are, are perpetuating it by falling into the same one-way trap we always fall into. A supposed "racists" statement is a death sentence for a republican but when a democrat does the same it is simply because he "mis-spoke". I am damned tired of the double standard and I am damned tired of “conservatives” with an ax to grind cheering it on.

[jwalsh07]

I've wanted him gone forever but I'm not into lynch mobs, especially when there is no evidence of a crime.

Stupidity is still not a crime, right?

[kcvl]

I have not falling for the Dems trap

THANK GOODNESS there is, at least, one person with a clue.

[RecallJeffords]

Lott is not the most liked Senator on the Hill (there are always several Senators of both parties who he is not talking to at any one time), and the thought occurs that these leaks are not coming from the Democratic left but Republican Senators looking to force Lott out. Lott would have been Majority Leader de facto. There was a lot of unhappiness with him (just look at some these posts) but there was no real vulnerability or reason to challenge him until he stepped on himself, and now this. The Republicans now have an opportunity to put someone else in that position, perhaps from the Midwest or West. Machiavellian, I know, but it happens quite often.

[ApesForEvolution]

Expand on that please. I have my own ideas about what you mean, but what do *you* mean? Thanks.

[RecallJeffords]

Lott is not the most liked Senator on the Hill (there are always several Senators of both parties who he is not talking to at any one time), and the thought occurs that these leaks are not coming from the Democratic left but Republican Senators looking to force Lott out. Lott would have been Majority Leader de facto. There was a lot of unhappiness with him (just look at some these posts) but there was no real vulnerability or reason to challenge him until he stepped on himself, and now this. The Republicans now have an opportunity to put someone else in that position, perhaps from the Midwest or West. Machiavellian, I know, but it happens quite often.

[sinkspur]

I have three words for you:

Power Sharing Agreement

Yeah, and if Lott goes, I've got four words for you:

You'll have it again!

[Dan Day]

I propose that all the senators who supported this resolution step down for embracing segregation, racism and a Dixiecrat.

Apples and oranges.

The resolution clearly says that the Senate is thanking him for his service as an officer of the Senate. There's nothing controversial there, it's honoring Thurmond's *current* service.

Lott's remarks are controversial because he (twice) said that the country would have been better off if Thurmond had won the presidency back in 1948, WHEN THURMOND WAS A STRONG SEGREGATIONIST. By specifically referring to the 1948 run both times, Lott was, intentionally or not, expressing approval for the "good old days" of segregation.

[TLBSHOW]

The rats are digging everywhere across the internet to end Lott and they just found this called

Trent Lott's Second Chance a 1999 WP story.

[kcvl]

Not the last time I checked. lol!

This is exactly why Republicans have such a hard time getting anything done. They fall for all the crap that the EVIL Dems try to pull. Just like what they did to Newt Gingrich when Hillary Clinton gets a pass on something MUCH WORSE. The COWARDS didn't do anything about that except make a few remarks. BIG DEAL!

[ambrose]

" I don't talk to you white motherf*****....You bitch motherf****** in the white press.....F*** you, you motherf****** assh***... white devils" - Gus Savage- Former Democrat Congressman from Chicago to a white member of the press)

[ApesForEvolution]

Lott told the GOP Senators (that pressed him not to run) who were angling for a battle over leadership that if he lost he would step down from the Senate. A Lott staffer told me this while I was in DC after the Nov. 5th election. The 'jr' GOP leadership said that they had 'circled the wagons' around Lott and would 'keep him on a tight leash'. That's what I mean.

[jwalsh07]

What's going to give out first, your head or the wall?

[Poohbah]

I will try to put this as simply as I can, in deference to your expressed attitudes.

It is one thing to express support for James Madison and how he helped move this Republic forward.

It's another thing to explicitly advocate the resumption of chattel slavery because "it would have prevented so many problems wev'e experienced since then."

[Mo1]

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.

His absense???

[Dan Day]

Yeah, and if Lott goes, I've got four words for you: You'll have it again!

What on earth are you talking about? Not having Lott as Senate majority leader doesn't change the makeup of the Senate -- Republicans would still hold a majority, no "power sharing" necessary.