[Republican_Strategist]

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The Lott Gaffe & DemoKKKratic Hypocrisy

The Lott Gaffe & A Whole Lot Liberal Media Bias

[patriciaruth]

What the "Republicans" need to do is stop posting endless articles on the subject and venting their purist conservative spleens on Lott.

Shut up and let the President handle it.

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

Good work. Interesting plan. Well written. There is one problem, and I have a solution for that.

But there sure is a LOTT of truth in the point that Lott is being left to the wolves because of his bungling in impeachment. We are not exactly united on the issue of Lott, and that is why.

On the other hand, it will not be interpreted that way by the left. This is especially true when Lott's college days are looked into.

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.

[RaceBannon]

Outstanding find, we need to compile all this and e-mail it to all our friends.

[lainde]

These are well reasoned, excellent points. I agree wholeheartedly with almost all of them. the problem is that we have to deal with this furor in 1-4 minute soundbites. The public sees and hears: Lott-Racist-Republican and short circuits nuanced, political and historical facts. The bloody dilemma is that the pavlovian democrats are blatantly manipulating pc-primed, media driven emotional reflexes.

[GiovannaNicoletta]

I would like the non-stop Republican refrain on the Sunday shows to be:

"Yes, when Senator Thurman was a Democrat in 1948, he was, like the Democrat party at that time in our nation's history, a strong segregationist. Senator Thurman came to a point in his life when he began to disagree with his Democrat segregationists beliefs, and that was the period in his life when he became a Republican.

Senator Lott, while understandibly trying to honor Senator Thurman on his 100th birthday, made some unfortunate remarks that rehashed a painful time in our history. Senator Lott has never shown himself to be a racist, and I think that it does the country no good in our journey toward racial harmony for the Democrats, who not only have one Senator who was a high-ranking member of a hateful racist organization and who is now in a powerful leadership position in the Democrat party, but who also have not a few members of their party, including an ex-president, who have made racist comments and have honored racists during their tenure in public service, to try to destroy Senator Lott because of a comment he made that does not come close to what some leaders in the Democrat party have said about various groups of people in this country."

As long as the Republicans sit back and let the historically racist Democrats continue to hammer them on this stupid comment of Lott's, while saying nothing about the Democrat's own documented racism, the Republican party will be unfairly tarred with the racist label and the rats will use this to get illegitimately what they could not win at the ballot box.

Republicans, especially President Bush, must go on the offensive about this and put this issue to bed or they might very well find themselves in the minority again. They must say publically that they accept Senator Lott's apology, and in the interests of harmony, will now be concentrating on the business of the nation.

It's time to be ruthless and it's time to go on offense. The rats will not let go of this until they are illegitimately in the majority again. Is that what we want? Is that what the President wants?

[shuckmaster]

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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.

[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.

[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.

[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

[RFP]

Your link is bad. Here is the correct link to The Democrat Party's Long and Shameful History of Bigotry and Racism , or cut and paste http://members.tripod.com/~gopcapitalist/democratrecord.html into your browser.

[AFPhys]

Thanks for a good rundown, but I humbly disagree that Lott ought to step down. His remembrance of Strom Thurmond was not as someone who ran on a segregationist platform, but was recalling the entirety of his public career. That totality contained far more proAmerican items such as fighting for a strong defense and foreign policy, than items which were in any way racist. This is the only tack that needs to be taken, and by doing so, we must refute the liberal media's attempts to tar Lott and in doing so attempting to bring down the whole party.

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

I love the cant exhibited,in America, about racial matters. So called racism is by implication worse than arson, burglary, murder, rape, robbery, sodomy and especially worse than the crimes of sedition and treason. The flap over Lott has as its ultimate goal the return of the senate to the Democrats by forcing Lotts resignation.

[bigunreal]

The Stupid Party appears to be following your advice, which is pretty predictable since it's right out of their SOP manual. This is a losing approach, and has been for many years. The fact that so many conservatives can't understand this is one of the primary reasons why many of us call the party they give undeserved loyalty to the Stupid Party. I'm no fan of Trent Lott; IMHO he epitomizes what's wrong with the Stupid Party. However, his "crime" was making a statement which members of the Evil Party find "offensive." Why not try countering this p.c. nonsense with a simple; "What part of the Bill of Rights don't you understand?" "Why don't you provide us with a list of words, statements, jokes and expressions which you find offensive and undeserving of constitutional protection?" Make this a civil liberties/free speech issue and stop apologizing every second! Not that I care, of course.