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."

More to follow...

[ApesForEvolution]

I've been busy, but whatever your bent is, so be it...

[ApesForEvolution]

I'm not familiar with that one, but I bet you have a bunch of homo-eroticist humor...nice to see you are over the Vacant Lott's latest drumming he's given the GOP, right before he's reportedly going to capably carry a conservative agenda through the Senate...

[Texasforever]

Isn't that true? Isn't that enough reason to pull the plug on the moron?

It is never right to pull the plug on someone to appease the unappeasable. I have never once seen Trent Lott defended on this forum until now and it is because many of us are sick and tired of every time a damn democrat constituency is "offended" a republican head has to roll you roll-over for them I am not about to.

[TLBSHOW]

This is a NYtimes story isn't it?
nuff said!

and here is a Ann Coulter story of facts


This is precisely the sort of Clintonian viciousness that Americans indicated they were sick of on election night. The Democrats' motorcycle rally-cum-funeral in Minnesota for Paul Wellstone exposed the party's character in a pellucid, dramatic way. It was so revolting, people couldn't avert their eyes from the spectacle. The only moral compass liberals have is their own will to power. Even the deaths of three members of a family could not slow them down.

If the party formerly known as "the Democrats" don't like the factually correct "Abortion Party," how about "the Adultery Party"? Noticeably, the only incumbent Republican senator to lose was Tim Hutchinson of Arkansas, who left his wife for a staffer a few years ago. I'm proud to be a member of a party that still frowns on that sort of thing.

The end result of a Democratic president being caught in an adulterous affair with an intern was: Two Republicans resigned from Congress. Meanwhile, the felon in the White House was revered as a latter-day George Washington by the Adultery Party. And consider that Newt Gingrich and Bob Livingston were mere congressmen. Bill Clinton, Teddy Kennedy, Jesse Jackson and Gary Hart are deemed presidential material by the Adultery Party.

What a miserable party. I'm glad to see their power end, and I'm sure they'll all be perfectly comfortable in their cells in Guantanamo. As Jesse Helms said on Ronald Reagan (news - web sites)'s election in 1980:


God has given America one more chance.

11/7/2002

[P-Marlowe]

The people who REALLY want Lott as the Senate Majority leader right now and into the next election are the democrats. This gives them an issue. They have no other issues, but this one will do quite nicely, thank you.

[ApesForEvolution]

Oh, I get it. You think the Red Communist Chinese Globalist loving Insider Trading Snow was a good choice for Treasury Sec.? Well, that's your problem. Snow was on my radar as a suspect candidate that can be bashed in his hearings long before you FRemailed that link to me. Whatever TLB. All the best, AFE.

[Free the USA]

I heard someone suggest that Lott should be publicly voted out as leader by the Republicans as a way for the party to distance itself from him. Don’t let him resign as either Leader or Senator but replace him as Leader.

[nathanbedford]

What is your evidence?

[ApesForEvolution]

Yeah, that's the point...in the big picture, one way or the other, Lott always seems to be a GOP tool for the communists.

[KQQL]

i hope not.....

I got an idea..MAKE MILLER THE GOP MAJORITY LEADER>...and invite him in//

[swheats]

And this is news because? It wasn't newsmaker material back in the 80's. This shows Lott's consistency and the Dems ability to strike only if there's political hay to make.

Speaking as a black American among the "little people" this really isn't an issue for me. After reading many of these quotes by individuals still in public life trying to sway public policy causes me to pause before I throw stones at Lott.

"Blacks and Hispanics were too busy eating watermelons and tacos to read the fine print on the phony insurance policies." 60 Minutes correspondent Mike Wallace

[P-Marlowe]

What does this have to do with the question of whether or not Trent Lott has the brains or the judgment to lead the Republican Senate? Nothing. Trent Lott put his foot in his mouth and gave the democrats all the ammunition they need to fire up their race baiters. For that alone Lott should be removed as the Senate Majority leader.

Bob Livingston had enough honor and integrity to resign the most powerful post in the world, Speaker of the House, rather than embarrass the Republican Party by his own acts of stupidity. If Lott had any sense of "Southern Honor" he would step aside as Majority leader rather than continue to embarrass the Party. But the word here at Free Republic, FROM HIS SUPPORTERS NO LESS, is that if Lott is in any way asked to step down as Majority Leader, that he will resign from the Senate and turn the Senate power back to the democrats.

And you support someone who would do that the the Republican party and the nation?

[ApesForEvolution]

Lott forgot he needs to more careful about certain issues and this issue has life only because of Vacant Lott. Now, he's going to be gone, and I'm not shedding a tear about it. Lott is a coward and a moron and needs to step aside. Even giving him all the benefit of the doubt, his stupidity and lack of cya (lame apology) has hung him. He doesn't have to kiss Maxine Waters' ring, but he set himself up to be taken behind the woodshed and the GOP goes with him.

[P-Marlowe]

Well I have a trial in the morning, so I gotta get some sleep. It is truly sad that so few republicans see the PR disaster that Lott foisted upon the party. It is no wonder that the republican party has the nickname the "Stupid Party." In a lot of ways that is oh so true.

[Texasforever]

, but I bet you have a bunch of homo-eroticist humor

Man when you crater you go all the way don't you? I have never seen a freeper self-destruct so fast and under so little pressure in my time here. You need to go back to the minors and toughen up.

[TLBSHOW]

But the word here at Free Republic, FROM HIS SUPPORTERS NO LESS, is that if Lott is in any way asked to step down as Majority Leader, that he will resign from the Senate and turn the Senate power back to the democrats.

And you support someone who would do that the the Republican party and the nation?


I don't believe I ever said any thing like that. In fact if you read what I have posted the picture is clear.

This is about Abortion, Judges and the SC and of course sending liberals back to the stone age!

PS
This is a rat story written by rats from a piece of garbage newspaper as Matt and Ann call it the old grey lady.

[ApesForEvolution]

Good night all. I won't be able to respond to your posts, TLB, in my sleep, so don't take it personally. I have been called stridently pro-life and overly conservative for my views, so your charges are beyond baseless, but that probably won't matter to you. Maybe you're a disconcerted muslim in drag...that's the equivalent of what you said to me.

[Mo1]

Lott always seems to be a GOP tool for the communists.

Stretching it a bit??

[Howlin]

Help me out here; last year, in Atlanta, at the NAACP convention, the one Bush didn't go to, didn't Julian Bond and that whole group generally trash Bush and make racist jokes about him?

Do you remember that the way I do?

[CenterRight]

Here's a link to a one-hour video and audio recording of the C-SPAN broadcast of Thurmond's birthday celebration. It includes Lott's entire speech. I have in on my screen now and I'm reviewing it.

http://www.c-span.org/politics/

The link to the Javascript is at about the center of the C-SPAN page. I'll transcribe the remarks by Lott, preceding his "all these problems" statement. There is no printed transcript on the Internet that I can find, at least not yet.

Feel free to click on the link above, download the 1-hour recording and follow along with me. If you're following along with me, fast-forward to exactly halfway through the recording. That is where Lott's speech starts.

Dole introduced Lott by mentioning that when Strom Thurmond was landing by glider in Normandy on June 6, 1944 Trent Lott was only three years old. http://www.c-span.org/politics/

Verbatim transcript of the beginning of Trent Lott's speech:

Well thank you, ladies and gentlemen, and thank you my good friend and my predecessor, my hero, Bob Dole, for that introduction, that very brief introduction I might add [Laughter] But for Senator Strom Thurmond's family and friends and admirers all, it's a great pleasure for me to be here with you today, and I know that you're enjoying every minute of this. And I knew that the previous remarks would be just as they were. I mean, after all, Bob Dole received the Republican nomination and dang near was elected President of the United States telling Strom Thurmond jokes. [Laughter] If he'd just gotten himself some new material there toward the end he would have done it. [Laughter] I want to say this about my state. When Strom Thurmond ran for President we voted for him. [Laughter] We're proud of it. [More laughter] And if the rest of the country had followed our lead, we wouldn't have had all these problems over all these years, either.

HE WAS JOKING, PEOPLE.

The quotation that has been bandied about as so-called "proof" of Lott's "racism" was clearly told for laughs. It was at the beginning of the speech, after Dole told a few Strom Thurmond jokes. Then Lott stood up and said that in 1996, Dole was nominated for President "and dang near was elected President of the United States telling Strom Thurmond jokes."

Then came the quotation that everyone is bleating about, and it got a few laughs, exactly as Lott had clearly intended. Then came more jokes, including one about how "the Capitol froze over" inserted in place of "hell freezes over," and a reference to Dole's Pepsi commercial with Britney Spears.