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TLB... that is silly. I wonder if now I will find NOW in my search because now is a good time to point out that now does not neccessarily mean NOW.

"national organization for women" Lott Abortion yields 360 hits.

It wasn't even the NOW crowd who started this stampede. I have yet to see Patricia Ireland on the tube. Bill Bennett and Jack Kemp are supposedly dupes of NOW in your opinion?

I agree with you that NOW is against Partial Birth Abortion being banned, but it is silly to think this is what this is about.

You have partisan politics combined with some genuine concern about Lott's mentality on the dem side who are zinging Lott. You have republicans like Jack Kemp who fear about race relations and growing the minority base in the GOP, on the republican side.

Daschle's first instinct was to protect Lott. It is extremely telling.

Why would they show up first and slam Lott, they have waited till almost the end.

NOW President Says Trent Lott is Unfit to Lead Senate

December 12, 2002

"Sen. Trent Lott's racist and sexist comments are outrageous and his apology is insufficient," said NOW President Kim Gandy. "The latest revelations offer ample evidence that Lott is unfit to assume a leadership role in the Senate. He should step down as a candidate for Senate majority leader or the Republicans must select someone who appreciates the progress made in this country over the last 50 years."

At Strom Thurmond's 100th birthday celebration, Lott expressed support for the Senator's 1948 presidential campaign, run on the Dixiecrat platform which stood for "the segregation of the races and the racial integrity of each race." Lott suggested that if Thurmond had been elected president, the U.S. "wouldn't have had all these problems over all these years."

Reports now reveal that Lott made an almost identical remark about Thurmond at a rally for Ronald Reagan in 1980. "Feminists who are familiar with Lott's history and his record in the Senate are not surprised by his sentiments. What he sees as a lack of judgment, we see as a lack of character," Gandy said.

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lack of character from people that kill babies? Hummm

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/805799/posts?page=37#37

http://www.now.org/press/12-02/12-12.html

>>It wasn't even the NOW crowd who started this stampede. I have yet to see Patricia Ireland on the tube. Bill Bennett and Jack Kemp are supposedly dupes
of NOW in your opinion?

I agree with you that NOW is against Partial Birth Abortion being banned, but it is silly to think this is what this is about. <<

Forgive him. He's using:

CLINTON PLAYBOOK #9: Use any excuse, make up anything, because “He’s our guy”