Disgusted with my fellow freepers (Trent Lott issue)

Vanity | rmmcdaniell

[TLBSHOW]

http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2001/6/11/163024.shtml

[Revolting cat!]

Me, on the other hand, I'm disguised with my fellow FReepers!

[gcruse]

Are we going to force Lott out

I wouldn't want to force Lott out
anymore than I think Newt should
have been dumped.  That said, Trent
should not be majority leader.  He
said what he said, it meant what it
meant, and it apparently isn't the
first time he has said something like
this.  SpongeBack Lott needs to
step down from majority leader in
favor of someone with more backbone
and less liability.

[ambrose]

Lott had the chance to do the right thing during impeachment, but instead conspired with the Rats to put on a dog and pony show and let Slick Willie skate. Now we're supposed to blindly support him when he's on the ropes for saying stupid crap? No thanks.

Revenge is a dish best served cold.

[A Vast RightWing Conspirator]

The debate should be over why the media and the political establishment absolutely refuse to debate the state of race and inter-ethnic relations, the effects of feds' racial policies and, yes, the PROBLEMS that the policies of forced integration, quotas, mandatory diversity, celebration of multi-culturalism and imposition of bilingual enducation have created. Perhaps studies could be done to investigate possible correlations between the above and crime, domestic terrorism, urban decay, immigration, cultural and moral decay.

[copycat]

Lott f'ed up.

But do we want to allow the Jesse Jacksons of the nation to dictate who is fit and unfit to lead? If they would not remove clinton for perjury, obstruction of justice, and probable rape, I'm OK with not removing Trent for saying something "insensitive."

[aristeides]

I too would like to see Lott removed as majority leader, but (1) not over this issue, and (2) only provided our Senate majority is not reduced or eliminated. I think that means he should not be removed NOW.

[Don Munn]

Think out the final outcome. Lott steps down.

How do you stop the media and the RATS from forcing full resignation from the senate and getting another Rat appointed by the state to fill the term. (50-50 senate)

[Sabertooth]

However the others are arguing that he must leave because he is too much of a liability to the party in the coming elections. Since when did so many of us become such a bunch of hypocritical cowards? During the impeachment trial it was we “principled conservatives” who wanted to skewer Lott for ditching the Clinton trial because he felt that it was too much of a liability to our party.

Lott as sewn, now he reaps.

Get a new majority leader, yesterday, and give Lott a plum committee assingment and a muzzle.

[FreeTheHostages]

Well, Buddha, that's brave of you. I've been reading this issue all day and posting on both sides of it, frankly. It's not easy for me because I think the 2004 election is the most important thing, not Sen. Lott. And I'm never been certain he's the best majority leader anyway. But ultimately I think I agree with what the Great One, Mark Levin, has said, as well as comments Aristeides has made about this not being the time to make any change in leadership -- looks too much like we're letting the Democratic spin machine push us around -- and that really would be the case.

I'm not certain this as easy or simple as the opening post suggests, but I don't think it's as simple as you say. There is something called party loyalty, and everyone seems to agree that Sen. Lott wasn't in fact motivated by racism. I heard this comments on Hannity and they rung true to me.

So keep an open mind and re-read Mark Levin's column. And all the rest of you, with whom I now agree, who think this was always so very obvious and everyone who disagrees is a dolt -- consider the possibility that that may not be so and also may not be a very persuasive way of speaking to fellow freepers.

Well, you're brave to step foot in here.

[sinkspur]

And he WILL go.

You and John Kerrey are the only ones who think so. Bill Frist vigorously defended Lott tonight.

I'll bet you ONE LARGE ($1,000) that Lott stays as Majority Leader.

I just sold three Rose Bowl tickets on E-Bay at a considerable profit. I feel lucky.

Do you? Well, do you, punk?

[Flint]

Lott's comments were not a gaff or a mistake. His comments were a purposeful attempt to shore up his support amoungst his contituency, many of whom perceive him as too liberal.

You don't go to a GD birthday party to do that!

[tinamina]

What I keep hearing is that Strom Thurmond ran as a segragationist party member, but what I read is it was the State's Rights party, isn't there a difference there someone should bring up? What else did the States Rights people stand for? I'm sure there was much more there than segregation, for heaven's sake. I know any Southerner will tell you that the Civil War was about States Rights not slavery, and they are still mad about States' Rights. If I was advising Trent Lott, I think I'd advise him to expand on what else the States' Rights party stood for, which no one is mentioning at all.

[section9]

Easy. Lott is extremely popular in Mississippi.

The white voters who send him to office every six years will deeply resent the piling on, and Bush won't let him resign.

Be Seeing You,

Chris

[Sabertooth]

Lott should tell the rats where to stuff it!

Isn't that the gist of Trent's FBI file?

[facedown]

In addition, his conduct during the Impeachment Debate, hanging the House Managers out to dry like that, was reprehensible.

Bump that!

[doug from upland]

Who here wants him to resign from the Senate? I haven't seen that. I have been angry with him since Impeachment. He is a spineless weasel who should be replaced by a bulldog. I care what he said in this case because he makes the party look bad and gives the RATS and their liberal minions in the press an issue. Let him sit in the audience and enjoy the view while a real leader sticks it to Daschle and the RAT bastards.

[aristeides]

He filed a legal brief for Bob Jones University's keeping a tax exemption. I am a tax lawyer. He was right about the law. Eight justices on the Supreme Court disagreed, for obviously political rather than legal reasons, as would be clear to you if you were to read their opinion and the persuasive dissent of Justice Rehnquist.

[SerpentDove]

REPUBLICAN SENATE MAJORITY LEADER:
RACIAL DISRIMINATION IS OK
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Has Party Backing

I hope everybody likes that soundbite. Because we can "explain" till we're blue in the face, but if we keep defending Lott, we're gonna be hearing it for a lonnnnnnnnnng time.

I say it's not worth losing the whole Republican agenda over him, no matter what other high-minded motives we might have.

IMHO, SD

[Frapster]

I agree - well said.