The Dixiecrat Platform

The Smoking Gun ^ | August 14, 1948 | The States Rights Democratic Party

[GraniteStateConservative]

Just so people here understand that Thurmond's run for the White House had nothing to do with lowering taxes or reducing government spending.

[Trailerpark Badass]

since marriage in the US is a matter of civil law regarding life, liberty and property, among other things.

Do you know where I can find out what sorts of things (facets of life, for lack of a better phrase) are commonly considered to come under the purview of the 14th Amendment.

Thanks.

[GWfan]

If you are going to slander Trent Lott, prove it.

I don't think that the people here are idiots for not agreeing with me, I think that they are idiots because they are blind to that fact that this is just a cheap dem power grab.

Have you forgotten NJ already? Dems had state control in NJ and changed the law so they could run a half dead guy and win, they broke their own law. They have no power now so they have nothing to lose.

If someone slandered me and all of my support was gone, I would retire and make more money somewhere else. Why stay and get called names? Besides, when and where would it end? People can only take so much. He is a human being.

We continue to fry and eat our own.

[xm177e2]

Who cares but you?

Hmmm.... maybe George W. Bush? The Weekly Standard? The National Review? Virginia Postrel? Andrew Sullivan?

[GraniteStateConservative]

Just watch SNL tomorrow night. If they don't do a Lott sketch that singes the hairs on Rove's head, I'd die of shock. It'll be brutal and based on an ugly truth our party still doesn't want to come to terms with.

[Trailerpark Badass]

The point in this case is separation of powers, not "states rights".

You are correct, of course. I used the term "rights" haphazardly.

[GWfan]

Howlin, he was a very respected southern gentleman. He wants to remain so. He has been raked over the coals so badly, I don't see how he can recover. I have made dunderheaded statements that I soon regret. I guess I am just seeing his human side. Why stay where is isn't wanted?

On the Dem side, they will keep the pressure cooker going. They have the media to do their dirty work. I think he most certainly would retire all together rather than be continually disgraced. The sad thing is, I think that this is a test run for the dems. Hey, they got Jeffords to switch. They got Lautenburg in. They will just keep pushing and pushing because they really have nothing to lose. They won't stop.

[plain talk]

How can you not care that Lott is a bigot? Can you really say with a straight face that a white Mississippi lawyer (one good enough to eventually end up in the Senate) has no idea what the Dixiecrat Party was about?

I'm afraid you just demonstrated bigotry. :-)

[Howlin]

You can afford to make dunderhead statements. You're not the leader of the controlling party of the most powerful governing body in the world.

I know all about what "they" do. We need to decide what "we" are "going to do."

[GWfan]

She must have caught a reflection of herself in a window! ;)

[GWfan]

We need to get over it, IMO. If any change is to be carried out in the GOP leadership, it should be on our time table. If anything happens now, the race baiters will take full credit.

[RockDoc]

If I were alive in 1948 I would vote for Strom

[Karsus]

Please read the entire post you are responding to before you tell someone to grow up.

What the poster said was "Many people here believe that states have the right to tell people what they can put in their body, even if the Federal government does not. I wonder if those same people would argue that the state does not have the right to tell people whom they can and cannot marry."

I know for a fact, because it has happend to me several time that some of the posters on this board feel the State has the duty to kill my wife and I because we enjoy oral sex.

[Karsus]

But none of us are the GOP leader on the Senate. Lot is a veteran politician and knew better. Since he knew better, why did he do it? This was only speech #12,500 or so for him.

[Trailerpark Badass]

Do you know where I can find out what sorts of things (facets of life, for lack of a better phrase) are commonly considered to come under the purview of the 14th Amendment.

Thanks.

Never mind, I found something.

[Dems_R_Losers]

Why are we blowing years of political capital to save this toupeed mediocrity's hide?

EXACTLY!!!!!! If this were George Bush or Dick Armey or Tom DeLay, it would be worth the fight. But I'll be damned if I am going to watch my party go over the cliff for this POS.

Did ANY of you see E.J. Dionne's op-ed in the Washington Post today? The headline itself says it all:

Party of Lincoln or Lott?

The Republican Party has reached a fork in the road. We have accommodated the Confederate wing for too damn long and it has cost us too much! In this election we made great progress in many states with minority voters, and certainly we are making progress with Jewish voters as the Democrats continue to suck up to the Palestinians and Islamists. But this MORON is going to blow all of right down the toilet.

So Lott says he was speaking "off-the-cuff" at the Thurmond Party. Don't you wonder, then, why he said what he said, and NOT something honoring Thurmond's repudiation of segregation and all the hard work he did to mend fences with and support the black community in South Carolina and arouns the country? By focusing his remarks on the 1948 Dixiecrat campaign, and "all the trouble we've had since," clearly Lott was showing what mattered MOST to him about Thurmond's career!

I've been convinced for years that Lott was a race-bomb waiting to go off on the GOP. If we can get him to resign as Leadr now, we might be able to salvage the situation, especially in light of the President's strong comments. But think about what is going to happen if Lott refuses to step down:

--Every time Lott goes to the White House, President Bush is going to be guilty by association. If Bush so much as shakes Lott's hand in public, there is the picture on the flyer that will be passed out in every inner-city neighborhood on Election Day 2004. The Democrats will make Trent Lott into George Bush's running mate, as surely as Lee Atwater said that the elder Bush would turn Willie Horton into Dukakis' running mate, and did. THIS WILL BE A DISASTER FOR BUSH IN 2004!!!!

--Every time the Senate Republicans attempt any domestic initiatives, the Democrats will have an opening to question whether it is good for blacks.

--Senate Democrats will waste NO time attempting to bring up minimum wage legislation, a new hate crime bill, and various other "civil rights" bills that Lott will be forced to try to kill. The hole will be dug deeper and deeper.

Does ANYONE here really want to live through two years of this crap, and then at the end have a Democrat in the White House and a Democrat-controlled Congress??? Because that is exactly what is going to happen unless we dump Lott! And we must do it NOW!

[Karsus]

Damn, what happend to the GOP?

the budget balanced;
Administration of government must be economical and effective.

Government, as the servant of such a system, should take all needed steps to strengthen and develop public health, to promote scientific research, to provide security for the aged, and to promote a stable economy so that men and women need not fear the loss of their jobs or the threat of economic hardships through no fault of their own.

reduction of the public debt.

Small business, the bulwark of American enterprise, must be encouraged through aggressive anti-monopoly action, elimination of unnecessary controls, protection against discrimination, correction of tax abuses, and limitation of competition by governmental organizations.

[GWfan]

He is human. He makes mistakes. GW said something the other day like 'we want to put food on the family' instead of we want to put food on the table. Does that mean he wants to start food fights??

Lott should not have said what he said, but he apologized. Why can't people take that at face value?

No I am not the leader of the senate, but what I say does matter to a lot of people every day. Thank the Lord above that if I mis-speak, most will understand and know my character enough to know if something was truly a mistake. Most don't look for hidden meanings.

[Texasforever]

We have accommodated the Confederate wing for too damn long

My friend if you lose the "confederate wing" then kiss any republican election goodbye.

[muawiyah]

What you might or might not enjoy is not my interest. Can you just keep it to yourself, you know, pull your zipper up, put both hands up on the keyboard, eyes focused straight ahead to the CRT.

There! That's much better.

[Karsus]

No. It proves just how overpowering some of the posters on FR would be if they had any real power. One of the posters who made that comment claims to be a police patrol officer.