The Lott Problem & A Solution

The Democrat Party's Long and Shameful History of Bigotry and Racism ^

[Republican_Strategist]

The Lott Gaffe

[Emphasis 1] - What Trent Lott said was incredibly stupid. He said, "I want to say this about my state (Mississippi): When Strom Thurmond ran for president, we voted for him. We're proud of it. And if the rest of the country had followed our lead, we wouldn't have had all these problems over all these years, either."

[Emphasis 2] - What makes that an incredibly stupid comment was that Strom Thurmond ran as a Democrat on a segregationist ticket. We shouldn’t be proud of it. And it surely would have led us to be problem free. And no one should be proud that they voted for him.

[Emphasis 3] - The comment really was not intended to be racist. What Lott was doing was taking part in Strom Thurmond’s birthday party trying to be humorous and he was trying to flatter him with that gaffe rather than trying to proclaim that America needs segregation.

[Emphasis 4] - People like Paul M. Weyrich of the Free Congress that have known Lott have vouched that he is no racist and has never made any racist comments. He innocently made a politically incorrect joke.

[Emphasis 5] - Democrats and the Liberal Media are only using this as part of a systematic campaign of demagoguery so that they can constantly refer to republicans as being racist and keep minorities in a state of fear so that they will continue to blindly vote for Democrats.

[Emphasis 6] - This is just racial paranoia. It wasn’t like Lott was serious or as if he was making the first item of the new year, say, repealing the Civil Rights Act or something like that. This is hysteria courtesy of the racial sensitivity police.

[Emphasis 7] - We need to put an end to this battered republican syndrome and stand up to the Left and quit letting them intimidate us with these overblown attacks over harmless jokes and we should quit trying to constantly appease them with repeated apologies.

[Emphasis 8] - Let’s get back to politics rather than allowing liberals to distract us with their politics of personal destruction. Let’s talk about unilaterally going to war with Iraq, let’s talk about abolishing income tax, let’s talk about abolishing social security, and let’s get back to restoring America.

[Emphasis 9] - Democrats are crybabies, whiners, and moaners. They will harp about this endlessly and the media will be like a DNC automation. The N.Y. Times maybe will even start a campaign against republicans demanding appeasement in the form of a tax increase or that we apologize to Clinton for trying to impeach him for breaking the law.

[Emphasis 10] Don’t let democrats make victims out of you! Be vigilant!

The Solution

1) Republicans need to quit rid of Lott. They should make it clear that there is a sizable majority of republicans that are fed up or lack confidence in his leadership (if you choose to call it that). They should highlight his bungling of the impeachment trial, his conciliatory attitude as far as trying to be “nice” to Daschle, and his general spinelessness. They should make it clear it wasn’t because he made an innocent joke to make a hundred year old man happy on his birthday.

2) Republicans need to highlight the hypocrisy and selective moral outrage on the part of the Democrats.

3) Republicans need to make the case that the media firestorm over this stupid, innocent joke however politically incorrect is a prime example of the media’s overly liberal bias.

4) Republicans need to quit being all so willing to just call for Lott’s head on a platter and they need to quit trying to appease the racial sensitivity police with such preemptive actions.

5) The Republicans need to highlight their party’s history of being the backers that made legislation like the 1964 Civil Rights Act pass while highlighting it was the Democratic Party that has a long history of racism and bigotry.

6) Republicans need to highlight policies like affirmative action and so forth are inherently racist. Republicans need to do a better job of pointing out things like 85% of racial violence being black on white while illustrating individuals like Michael Moore have written books that are undoubtedly racist with titles like “Stupid White Men.”

7) We have the White House, we have the House, and we have the Senate. Let’s use them and get our political agenda rolling. Let’s start by getting rid of the abortion slaughter and nominating extremely conservative judges.

Double Standards

[Double Standard] - At the 1993 birthday party of J. William Fulbright, Clinton said, “The American political system produced this remarkable man, and my state did, and I'm real proud of it.” Clinton bestowed the Presidential Medal of Freedom on Fulbright who he described as a visionary humanitarian, a steadfast supporter of the values of education, and 'my mentor.'

[Double Standard] - October 22, 2002, Bill Clinton traveled to Fayetteville, Arkansas to honor the life of the late Arkansas senator, J. William Fulbright by dedicating a seven-foot-tall bronze statue of the man. Clinton said, "If [Fulbright] were here today, I'm sure he would caution us not to be too utopian in our expectations, but rather utopian in our values and vision."

[Double Standard] - Gore family's African-American former maid, who complained in the midst of the 2000 presidential campaign that young Al's mom and dad used to make her wait in their hot car during the 1950s while the family ate in "whites only" restaurants.

[Double Standard] - On CBS, both liberals Dan Rather and Mike Wallace made racially insensitive comments. Rather said on air, "What happened was they [CBS management] got the willies, they got the Buckwheats. Their knees wobbled and we gave it up." Wallace once said, with film rolling, that Blacks and Hispanics had difficulty filling our loan applications. According to Wallace, they were simply too busy “eating watermelons and tacos” to learn how to read and write.

[Double Standard] - Gore’s Campaign Manager Donna Brazille, told the Washington Post, that she was going to beat the "white boys."

[Double Standard] - Liberal Hero & Communist FDR appointed two notorious segregationists to the United States Supreme Court. Roosevelt appointed South Carolina segregationist Democrat Jimmy Byrnes to the court. Roosevelt later made Byrnes a top advisor, where the segregationist earned the nickname “assistant president.” Byrnes was also Roosevelt’s second choice behind Harry Truman for the VP nod in his 1944 reelection bid. Roosevelt also appointed segregationist Democrat Senator Hugo Black of Alabama to the court. Black was a former member of the Ku Klux Klan with a notorious record of racism himself.

[Double Standard] - Democratic Senator Robert Byrd is a former member of the Ku Klux Klan and is currently the only national elected official with a history in the Klan, a well known hate group. Byrd was extremely active in the Klan and rose to the rank of “Kleagle,” an official Klan membership recruiter. Last year, in an interview on the Fox News Channel, he used the term “white niggers” on air.

[Double Standard] - Senator Ernest Hollings is the liberal Democratic Senator from South Carolina who is also notorious for his use of racial slurs. Hollings has reportedly used the slur "wetbacks" to derogatorily refer to Hispanics and "darkies" to derogatorily refer to blacks. Hollings was also the Governor of South Carolina who raised the confederate flag over the state capitol in the early 1960's in what was considered at the time to be an act of defiance to civil rights. The press ignored Hollings and his role in the flag issue at the same time the political correctness police were smearing George W. Bush during his campaign after Bush correctly remarked that the flag was a state issue to be decided upon by South Carolina and not the national government.

[Double Standard] - Dick Gephardt, the former Democrat Minority Leader in the U.S. House of Representatives, gave several speeches to a St. Louis area hate group during his early years as a representative. According to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Gephardt spoke to the Metro South Citizens Council, a now defunct white supremacist organization.

[Double Standard] - Jesse Jackson has a history of using anti-Semitic slurs and derogatorily calling New York City “Hymietown.” Jackson, a prominent self proclaimed "civil rights leader," is himself guilty of the same bigotry he dishonestly purports to oppose.

[Double Standard] - Cragg Hines used the racial slur "cracker" to attack Helms. He used the epithet not only within the article's text, but he even included it in the piece's title. Hines is one of the most rabidly partisan DC based Democrat editorial columnists to work for a major newspaper, and he makes no attempts to hide it.

[Double Standard] - Al Sharpton, a perrenial Democrat candidate and one of the rumored candidates for the Democrat's 2004 presidential nomination, has a notorious racist past. Sharpton was a central figure who fanned the 1991 Crown Heights race riot, where a mob shouting anti-semetic slurs murdered an innocent Jewish man. Sharpton also incited a 1995 protest of a Jewish owned store in Harlem where protesters used several anti-semetic slurs. During the protests, a Sharpton lieutenant called the store's owner a "bloodsucker" and declared an intent to "loot the Jews." A member of the protest mob later set fire to the store, resulting in the death of seven.

[Double Standard] - Andrew Cuomo, Bill Clinton's former Housing Secretary and a prominent Democrat political player in New York, was tape recorded using racially inflamatory rhetoric to build opposition to a potential Democrat primary opponent while speaking to a Democrat group. Cuomo stated that voting for his rival for the New York Democrat gubernatorial nomination Carl McCall, who is black, would create a "racial contract" between Black and Hispanic Democrats "and that can't happen." Upon initial reports, Cuomo denied the statement but later a tape recording surfaced. Cuomo later dropped out of the race for governor.

[Double Standard] - Lee Brown, Bill Clinton's former drug czar and Democrat mayor of Houston, engaged in racist campaigning designed to suppress Hispanic voter turnout during his 2001 reelection bid. Brown faced challenger Orlando Sanchez, a Hispanic Republican who drew heavy support from the Hispanic community during the general election. Two weeks prior to the runoff, Brown's campaign printed racist signs designed to intimidate Hispanic voters. The signs featured a photograph of Sanchez and the words "Anti-Hispanic."

[Double Standard] - Mary Frances Berry is the Democrat chair of the US Commission on Civil Rights (USCCR). She purports herself to be an "independent" in her political affiliation in order to hold her job on the civil rights commission where partisan membership may not exceed 4 for either party, but is in fact a dedicated liberal Democrat who openly supported Al Gore for president and has given a total of $20,000 in personal contributions to the Democrat Party, Al Gore for President, and other Democrat candidates over the last decade. Berry is an open racist who is affiliated with the far-left Pacifica radio network, a group with ties to black nationalist causes. Berry once stated "Civil rights laws were not passed to protect the rights of white men and do not apply to them," indicating that she believes the USCCR should only look out for civil rights violations against persons of certain select skin colors.

[Double Standard] - Former Democrat State Representative Billy McKinney of Georgia, who is also the father of former Democrat congresswoman Cynthia McKinney of the same state. During his daughter's failed 2002 reelection bid, McKinney appeared on television where he blamed his daughter's difficulties on a Jewish conspiracy. McKinney unleashed a string of anti-semitic sentiments, stating "This is all about the Jews" and spelling out "J-E-W-S." McKinney lost his own seat in a runoff a few weeks later.

The Democrat Party and the Ku Klux Klan

Aside from the multiple Klan members who have served in elected capacity within the high ranks of the Democrat Party, the political party itself has a lengthy but often overlooked history of involvement with the Ku Klux Klan. Though it has been all but forgotten by the media, the Democrat National Convention of 1924 was host to one of the largest Klan gatherings in American history. Dubbed the "Klanbake convention" at the time, the 1924 Democrat National Convention in New York was dominated by a platform dispute surrounding the Ku Klux Klan. A minority of the delegates to the convention attempted to condemn the hate group in the party's platform, but found their proposal shot down by Klan supporters within the party. As delegates inside the convention voted in the Klan's favor, the Klan itself mobilized a celebratory rally outside. On July 4, 1924 one of the largest Klan gatherings ever occurred outside the convention on a field in nearby New Jersey. The event was marked by speakers spewing racial hatred, celebrations of their platform victory in the Democrat Convention, and ended in a cross burning.

For more information on the Democratic opposition to civil rights and their history of racism and bigotry, go to The Democrat Party's Long and Shameful History of Bigotry and Racism

[Republican_Strategist]

No it isn’t. What you have done is take the passage of scripture over time and taken accounts of people twisting Christianity as King James did for their own purposes in order to distort the whole meaning of faith and take those abuses and then denounce the faith as a whole while making ludicrous, unsupported insinuations that people of faith or that endorse faith are planning something that even Machiavelli couldn’t have conceived of and that is nothing short of lunacy and paranoia.

It is this type of malarkey, this shadow boxing with this exaggerated boogieman called the “religious right” that serves as one big distraction and propaganda reel for the true enemy, which is this creeping socialist menace.

I suppose I shouldn’t mention that we are attempting to ride into power to do what: give people freedom by abolishing income tax, ending social security, and so forth. All of which you conceive to be a diabolical scheme to get power when I’m interested in empowering the people as the founding fathers did. I suppose the fact that America is a Christian nation and the bible was the most cited by the founding fathers really must erk you.

[patriciaruth]

You know, as a scientist, I might agree with you, but as one of those people who heard the Holy Spirit and saw the Light and came back, I have to remark that "there are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy."

As surprising as it may be to you, the fairy tale is true.

[doosee]

Republicans must be very careful about overplaying their hand on Lott. When he resigns his post, my bet is he resigns from the Senate. There will be a new Demo. senator at that time. That will make it very enticing for McCain, who is pondering running on the Dem slate, to switch. Then we are minority again.

Lets get off Lotts back for a silly remark in which he never once mentioned racism or segregation. Let the Repub. senators decide by vote if he stays as Majority leader.

[Republican_Strategist]

So you don't believe in tax cuts? Or you are angry that you didn't get the whole pie the first time out and are blaming me?

Yes, I believe in tax cuts. I believe in abolishing income tax, the AMT tax, and so forth. My point is that Bush’s small, flawed tax cut is perceived as being something extremely conservative when in fact it isn’t. And you basically avoided the whole point.

So you don't believe in forcing liberal teachers to start teaching facts instead of liberalism? You want to just let them continue to control brainwashing our children? We didn't have control of the Senate when compromises were made to get the bill through that begins to challenge liberal control of education.

Bush’s Education Bill was written by Ted Kennedy for crying out loud and you pretend like it is forcing teachers to actually teach? You seem to be unable to confront the fact of the matter. So you blame compromises? No, Bush surrendered and he let the liberals dictate to him. That isn’t leadership and that isn’t remotely conservative.

I sent a contribution to the NRA to fight it and the Supreme Court will be hearing the case this next session.

Okay. I’ll let you slide even though you didn’t address my question of whether or not you supported Bush’s signing it. At least you didn’t excuse that one.

Neither the President nor I supported this idea but our representatives voted for it.

Then why didn’t the President even fight the democrats on it? Did he lose his veto pen?

The President made a deal to not prosecute the Clintons? Funny, I thought Ken Starr was the one who did that.

Bill O’Reilly on his radio program uncovered that Bush made a deal with Congressional democrats not to go after Clinton and I think that was a tragedy, but of course you are in the dark on that. No, your hero Trent Lott made quite an effort to put on a mock impeachment proceeding and Robert Ray gave Clinton that slap on the wrist and Bush didn’t even remark about it.

The Farm Bill was the price we paid to gain control of the Senate, so we could get judges confirmed.

The Farm Bill symbolizes three key things: Socialism, Big Government, and wasting tax dollars. The farm bill will cost households at least $1,805 in higher taxes. The farm bill will cost households $2,572 in inflated food prices. The farm bill will provide subsidies to an already steady and thriving industry. The farm bill promotes further consolidation of farms. The farm bill censors information regarding the recipients of subsidies. There are a ton of other problems. You simply excuse this blatant waste of tax dollars by saying it is the “reason” we took back the Senate? Now, let's face it, "Republican", you ain't no Republican. You hate the Republican President who is the most popular President in Republican history. You spent all your firepower on a Republican instead of Democrats. You are a conservative purist, not a Republican. Your hero is probably PJB or some other disloyal Republican.

My hero is Ann Coulter nonetheless. You are right, the only reason I support Bush and republicans is because they are the lesser of two evils and I’m much more ideologically in agreement with say the Constitution Party. The Republican Party has become too infected by the likes of you, which weaken it internally and turn it into a whore for the DNC. When it comes to say, prescription drug coverage, rather than opposing that socialist proposal….people like you embrace it. Then the only difference between you and a democrat is that they want it to be larger.

What you are doing is trying to accuse anyone demanding leadership and representation of being a purist and you want to purge the party to a point where it’ll really be no different than the DNC.

[patriciaruth]

I believe in abolishing income tax, the AMT tax, and so forth.

I have believed in abolishing the income tax (taxing production) for decades. In fact, the Bush administration has been working on simplifying the tax code as a prelude to a national debate on whether to abolish the income tax altogether and what other system of taxation should be put in its place.

Bush’s Education Bill was written by Ted Kennedy for crying out loud

Ted didn't write the parts that mandate testing and accountability with disaggregated reporting of results nor the parts that train teachers in real teaching methods.

Then why didn’t the President even fight the democrats on it? Did he lose his veto pen? [federalizing airline inspections]

He did fight it and did speak out against it. But knitting back the nation's wounds from 9/11 took precedent over making you deliriously happy.

Bill O’Reilly on his radio program uncovered that Bush made a deal with Congressional democrats not to go after Clinton and I think that was a tragedy, but of course you are in the dark on that.

Yep, I'm in the dark on that, even though I watch O'Reilly almost every day.

Robert Ray gave Clinton that slap on the wrist and Bush didn’t even remark about it.

Bush's strategy has gained Republicans control of the Senate, whatever you think about his decision on signing CFR and letting the Supremes sort it out or his decision not to stir up the recriminations pot and trade accusations and acrimony with the Dems over Clinton's past sins. Without this strategy, Republicans would not now have control of the Senate, which you are fighting so hard to throw away right now.
Could we pretty please just get the judges through before you demand Lott's head?

The Farm Bill symbolizes three key things: Socialism, Big Government, and wasting tax dollars. The farm bill will cost households at least $1,805 in higher taxes. The farm bill will cost households $2,572 in inflated food prices. The farm bill will provide subsidies to an already steady and thriving industry. The farm bill promotes further consolidation of farms. The farm bill censors information regarding the recipients of subsidies. There are a ton of other problems. You simply excuse this blatant waste of tax dollars by saying it is the “reason” we took back the Senate?

Yep, it worked.

My hero is Ann Coulter nonetheless.

I adore her.

You are right, I’m much more ideologically in agreement with say the Constitution Party.

You're right, I'm Right.

The Republican Party has become too infected by the likes of you,

You don't remember the Republican party of Eisenhower and Rockefeller, do you? You would call Ike a RINO and Rockefeller a liberal infiltrator, when he was probably closer to Teddy Roosevelt than any Republican you know.

prescription drug coverage, rather than opposing that socialist proposal….people like you embrace it. The only difference between you and a democrat is that they want it to be larger.

No, prescription drug coverage is a lousy idea but like the farm bill, it was the price we paid to win Florida in 2000. And yes, the Faustian pact allows us to cut the scale of what the Dems would have passed if Gore had won.

What you are doing is trying to accuse anyone demanding leadership and representation of being a purist and you want to purge the party to a point where it’ll really be no different than the DNC.

We have leadership. It's not what you want, but then you have admitted you are not a Republican at heart. It's what a majority of Americans want. Government of the people, not of the extremists.

As for the Democrats, they hate me more than you do. I believe in a strong national defense and saying the pledge of allegiance in schools. I am an NRA member and believe the Second Amendment is more important than any other part of the Constitution. I am pro-life. I believe X42 is a sociopath and committed rape and treason and perjury, among other more petty crimes, and would never have taken office in the first place in 1992 if people had not voted for pie in the sky and an chance to check under the hood and see the crazy aunt in the attic. And in 1996, I found out that when Lincoln said "you can fool some of the people all the time" he had no idea how very many people that was.

I close with some words of that RINO who infected the Republican Party, President Ronald Reagan.

"When I began entering into the give and take of legislative bargaining in Sacramento, a lot of the most radical conservatives who had supported me during the election didn't like it. "Compromise" was a dirty word to them and they wouldn't face the fact that we couldn't get all of what we wanted today. They wanted all or nothing and they wanted it all at once. If you don't get it all, some said, don't take anything.
"I'd learned while negotiating union contracts that you seldom got everything you asked for. And I agreed with FDR, who said in 1933: 'I have no expectations of making a hit every time I come to bat. What I seek is the highest possible batting average.'
"If you got seventy-five or eighty percent of what you were asking for, I say, you take it and fight for the rest later, and that's what I told these radical conservatives who never got used to it."

Ronald Reagan, from his autobiography, An American Life

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[slimer]

Republicans need to quit being all so willing to just call for Lott’s head on a platter and they need to quit trying to appease the racial sensitivity police with such preemptive actions.

Well said.

[unixfox]

What Republican in the senate despises Daschle the most? Find that person and make him leader. It's time to find someone who is going to lead the party instead of trying to cower to the Dems.

[Dahoser]

Boy, this is a fun one to wade into.

To not see where Lott has been feckless as Majority Leader is to be blind. He follows in a long line of "play nice with the RATS" leaders like Bob Michel, Howard Baker and Bob Dole, who always volunteered themselves and the party to look for the soap in the shower with the RATS. Take your pick: he's awful even without what he did to the House Managers, or even if he were 100% rock solid otherwise, he's awful for what he did to the House Managers. Either way, he should never lead a Girl Scout troop let alone the Senate Republicans.

Contrast what's going on right now in these parts and elsewhere in the conservative/Republican world with the reaction to the firestorm around Dick Armey saying, "Barney Fag" instead of "Barney Frank" (and on the House floor no less!). Not a peep about Armey stepping down from his post on this side of the aisle. Why? Because he was true to the principles and ideals of what we believe.

Let's face it, Lott didn't hold an early election for Majority Leader because he had a conflict with a hair appointment. He did it to head off any movement to dump him. That's not the action of someone firmly in control of his caucus.

So, much to the chagrin and frustration of his detractors, he engineered the early election and won, setting up the prospect of a hard fought battle to regain control of both houses being negated. Recall that the 1994 Contract with America hit a wall in the Senate when the RINOs and the deficit hawks s**t themselves over tax cuts, spending cuts and dynamic scoring. I'll never forget Domenici doing his best Brutus routine before Teddy and the boys could even find a microphone by saying balancing the budget comes before tax cuts. In other words, tax cuts were DOA in the Senate, a Republican Senate. Lott's re-election to Majority Leader promised more of the same.

Then this debacle comes along, and his position as Majority Leader is vulnerable. It's like having term limits passed nationwide with a retroactive option: you suddenly see a way to get rid of unremovable Congress members like Byrd, Kennedy, Gephardt, and Markey.

Lott did something stupid and now there's an opening that did not exist before to remove him as leader. He can stay in the Senate, and in fact has to because of Mississippi's RAT governor, but he has to go as Majority Leader. That sentiment was around long before last Thursday.

[maica]

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To: patriciaruth

Why don't you RINOs go crawling & slithering back under your DNC rocks?

5 posted on 12/13/2002 5:30 AM EST by Republican_Strategist

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You have no credibility on this forum after posting this! You obviously have not taken the time to read patriciaruth's insightful posts over the years.

[patriciaruth]

That was sweet. Thanks. Truth is, I am a conservative Republican, but a practical one like Reagan and GWB, not a radical one. Therein lies the rub.

[RooRoobird14]

Thanks for the info--I'm filing it away for future reference!! Rush really had the perfect solution (LOL): Trent Lott could make the "racist" problem go away in one day easily. How? Changing parties and becoming a Democrat.

[Republican_Strategist]

I have believed in abolishing the income tax (taxing production) for decades. In fact, the Bush administration has been working on simplifying the tax code as a prelude to a national debate on whether to abolish the income tax altogether and what other system of taxation should be put in its place.

No, Bush hasn’t started any national debate other than trumpeting his flawed, piddly tax cut. He has made no mention of abolishing income tax.

Ted didn't write the parts that mandate testing and accountability with disaggregated reporting of results nor the parts that train teachers in real teaching methods.

Well, you say that, but President Bush says the opposite. Who am I to believe. You haven’t addressed the crux of Bush’s plan is empowering an unconstitutional department of education and increasing spending.

He did fight it and did speak out against it. But knitting back the nation's wounds from 9/11 took precedent over making you deliriously happy.

He didn’t fight it, he didn’t try to make a case to the American people, and he ended up rubber stamping it. And why do you think you can excuse his federalizing airline workers or having the government takeover industry just because Islamic terrorist attack America? Then your defensive mechanism really kicks it and you pretend like I just want him to make me “happy” because I demand leadership.

Yep, I'm in the dark on that, even though I watch O'Reilly almost every day.

Well, O’Reilly covered it on his radio program and on his television show, he did mention that several times, but you are in the dark.

Bush's strategy has gained Republicans control of the Senate, whatever you think about his decision on signing CFR and letting the Supremes sort it out or his decision not to stir up the recriminations pot and trade accusations and acrimony with the Dems over Clinton's past sins. Without this strategy, Republicans would not now have control of the Senate, which you are fighting so hard to throw away right now.

Bush has had a strategy of no leadership and he caves constantly to the Democrats and because that coincides with the republicans barely taking back the Senate, you pretend like that excuses abandoning principles. I don’t want my leader saying CFR is unconstitutional and then being too gutless to veto it. I’m glad to see you don’t care about Clinton selling pardons and Bush’s refusal to even prosecute it, you set such high standards for your elected officials. And you without any evidence you suggest that is why Bush won because he basically took a left turn and that exposes you for the RINO that you are. Maybe this is why the majority of America stays home on election day.

Could we pretty please just get the judges through before you demand Lott's head?

I said, “Republicans need to quit being all so willing to just call for Lott’s head on a platter and they need to quit trying to appease the racial sensitivity police with such preemptive actions.” Obviously you never bothered reading any of my post. We can get our judges and we can get judicial nominations. You are trying to create a false dilemma. Are those nominees going to be like Ashcroft pledging that Roe v.s Wade is the “law of the land?” The President also had harsh words for Lott.

Yep, it worked. So you think that is a rebuttal to my comments on the Farm Bill by just saying it worked? I guess you like higher taxes, higher food prices, and you just adore socialism because….it works according to you.

I adore her. You adore Ann Coulter, what a shock! She’s ideologically on my level and you say you adore her…what a shocker.

You don't remember the Republican party of Eisenhower and Rockefeller, do you? You would call Ike a RINO and Rockefeller a liberal infiltrator, when he was probably closer to Teddy Roosevelt than any Republican you know. Well, you have to go back a long way don’t you. I wonder why you skipped over Ronald Reagan? I guess you don’t like conservatives.

No, prescription drug coverage is a lousy idea but like the farm bill, it was the price we paid to win Florida in 2000. And yes, the Faustian pact allows us to cut the scale of what the Dems would have passed if Gore had won. I just love you unprincipled RINOs explaining to us that we need to propose socialism in order to keep the socialists from winning. You have plenty of excuses don’t you?

We have leadership. It's not what you want, but then you have admitted you are not a Republican at heart. It's what a majority of Americans want. Government of the people, not of the extremists.

No, you are a socialist my friend. You have no core beliefs and you are perfectly willing to embrace extremism like socialism because you think it “wins” you elections. You seem to think that my view, the founding fathers, about a small limited government adhering to the Constitution is extreme and that is the largest error in your logic. That must be why the majority of Americans stay at home when your sort of candidates are up for election.

As for the Democrats, they hate me more than you do. I believe in a strong national defense and saying the pledge of allegiance in schools. I am an NRA member and believe the Second Amendment is more important than any other part of the Constitution. I am pro-life. I believe X42 is a sociopath and committed rape and treason and perjury, among other more petty crimes, and would never have taken office in the first place in 1992 if people had not voted for pie in the sky and an chance to check under the hood and see the crazy aunt in the attic. And in 1996, I found out that when Lincoln said "you can fool some of the people all the time" he had no idea how very many people that was.

I believe in a strong national defense. You seem to create differentiations where none exists. I believe in getting the federal government out of the school, but you think believing in saying the pledge alone is good enough. I believe in abolishing all gun laws, do you? I believe abortion is unconstitutional, what about you? Bush’s father lost because he broke his promise and he raised taxes throwing 19% of the vote to Perot.

I close with some words of that RINO who infected the Republican Party, President Ronald Reagan.

No, Ronald Reagan saw the light and he came to completely repudiate liberalism where as you think putting an R beside your name and advocating the same things that reek of socialism in order to win is okay.

"When I began entering into the give and take of legislative bargaining in Sacramento, a lot of the most radical conservatives who had supported me during the election didn't like it. "Compromise" was a dirty word to them and they wouldn't face the fact that we couldn't get all of what we wanted today. They wanted all or nothing and they wanted it all at once. If you don't get it all, some said, don't take anything.

I think income tax is radical seeing how it is paramount to legalized theft and then people like Bush give $500 million for “AIDS in Africa.” I mean, id you believe that income tax or social security is basically theft, then how can you compromise you principles and agree to some theft. People like you need to be weeded out of the party.

"I'd learned while negotiating union contracts that you seldom got everything you asked for. And I agreed with FDR, who said in 1933: 'I have no expectations of making a hit every time I come to bat. What I seek is the highest possible batting average.'

FDR was a communist and he left a horrible legacy of government control.

"If you got seventy-five or eighty percent of what you were asking for, I say, you take it and fight for the rest later, and that's what I told these radical conservatives who never got used to it." Ronald Reagan, from his autobiography, An American Life

Problem is we are not getting beyond 15% of our agenda and you pretend like that is fine.

[Republican_Strategist]

I find nothing insightful about a guy who says that the Farm Bill, which is precisely the same as soviet-style planning, raises taxes on the average family, raises food prices, and give tax dollars to members of Congress, Fortune 500 companies, and wealthy basketball players because he has to create this idiotic lie that is the reason Bush won the 2000 election.

[Republican_Strategist]

You are a person without principles. Therein lies the problem.

[FryingPan101]

WATTS UPSET WITH GORE'S BLACK CAMPAIGN MANAGER

Oklahoma Congressman J.C. Watts has reportedly fired off a letter to Vice President Al Gore complaining about remarks made by Gore's campaign manager, Donna Brazile.

Watts took issue with remarks attributed to Brazile in a Washington press report. Brazile, a black woman with ties to several activists in Oklahoma, reportedly said the Republican Party is more concerned with taking pictures with black children than feeding them. Gore's campaign manager reportedly said the Republican Party has no program to offer African Americans.

The Oklahoma Congressman wrote to Gore that he considered Brazile's comments racist. Watts pointed out his only family background and touted his "American Community Renewal Act" proposal which would give assistance to inner cities. The proposal has not been passed by Watts' Republican party.

When contacted about Watts' letter to Gore, Brazile said the Washington news article took her remarks out of context, and said that Watts was a fine Congressman. (Posted 1-6-00

[FryingPan101]

Donna also made some stupid comment about no letting those "White Boys" win.

[Republican_Strategist]

I have no credibility? You friend here, who you think is so insightful, then let me post a quote and completely prove you nor your friend have any credibility. He said, “I have never called myself a conservative. I am a Republican and maybe the only one on this thread. I believe that to be a conservative you have to be in favor of stoning gays and shooting Mexican men and women at the border, and I am a Christian and thus don't qualify.” it is that sort of patent nonsense I’m having to deal with. His self-proclaimed practicality is fantasy of his own making.

[maica]

I think you are a principled realist.

I just heard a few minutes of Jonah Goldberg on C-SPAN this morning when he answered a caller about the position of Majority Leader. He made points that need to be more widely understood and discussed on fora such as Free Republic.

He said Majority Leader is a terrible job because it is one of constant compromise and deal making. It can only be handled by someone who does not stand nearer the edges of the Party. I had not thought of that angle, but I had realized that in order BE elected the ML one would have to get the votes of all the Republicans in the Senate. One Lincoln Chafee or McCain could threaten to withhold his vote from a more rigid candidate.

[syriacus]

Problem and Solution: I think it would be interesting if we simply combine a demand that all senators with racial problems all step down from their committee chairs at the same time. That makes the message even more clear. Everyone should be held to the same standard at the same time. Hollings, Clinton, Byrd, and Lott.

Good idea.