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Don Nickles Calls for New Senate Leadership Election to Challenge Lott
Fox News | 12-15-02

Posted on 12/15/2002 6:33:57 AM PST by rightwing2

Fox News just reported that ABC reported that Nickles has called for a new Senate leadership challenge to Trent Lott!


TOPICS: Breaking News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bigcanodumbass; gop; lott; nickels; senate
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To: Walkin Man
And who determines what Lott was thinking when he made his remarks? The thought police in the democrat party? The leftist news media?? Geez....


782 posted on 12/15/2002 3:01 PM EST by Walkin Man

disgusting isn't it that people here are doing just that.
801 posted on 12/15/2002 12:10:29 PM PST by TLBSHOW
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To: EternalVigilance
Yes, he did. That was the convention where the NAACP and their minions raised holy hell because Bush didn't attend. Just imagine the reception he should have gotten.

And I don't recall ANY of the press giving Bond any trouble at all about those remarks.

802 posted on 12/15/2002 12:10:35 PM PST by Howlin
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To: Torie
Well if it was Education... I only know because I used to work for the AZ Dept of Education and now I work for Juvenile Corrections and we get Ed Title 1 funds because we educate special needs kids ...
803 posted on 12/15/2002 12:11:09 PM PST by marajade
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To: ImphClinton
I keep reading that WE are reading something into Lott's comments, but I have yet to see anybody explain WHY they weren't exactly what they appear to be.
804 posted on 12/15/2002 12:11:46 PM PST by Howlin
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To: Howlin
Julian was damn effective on CNN Howlin. Facts are facts. What do you make of this excerpt of a Howard Fineman piece on MSNBC's website?

" The ensuing controversy gathered force slowly, helped along by some of the most inept damage control since the Maginot Line was built. Lott first said, dismissively, that he was “winging it”—until it was discovered that he had said the same thing 22 years earlier. Lott made this and other press “appearances” by phone while holed up with his wife on vacation in Key West, Fla. His aides assured White House officials that he would utter the key words “segregation is immoral” on “Larry King,” but he somehow forgot to do so. Bush went ballistic at this point. He also heard that GOP Sen. Chuck Hagel was about to denounce Lott. The president ordered up a harsh condemnation of Lott’s remarks. “Senator Lott has apologized, and rightly so,” a stern-visaged Bush said. Lott got the message, and scheduled his full-dress press conference—with the proper wording included—for the following day. "

It makes it sound that Lott only condemned segregation because Bush made him do so, and when Lott proved incorrigible, he had to be spanked to do it. That is just ducky. Ya, Fineman is not a "friend," but what if this story is true?

805 posted on 12/15/2002 12:12:10 PM PST by Torie
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To: EternalVigilance
and those that stood up for the WH against the commie naacp is also standing up for Lott. And now this is how they are paid back by Bush and Rove. Yep that will do it.
806 posted on 12/15/2002 12:12:28 PM PST by TLBSHOW
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To: ImphClinton
People can change... Heck there's even hope for Clinton and his harrassment of women ...
807 posted on 12/15/2002 12:12:45 PM PST by marajade
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To: McGavin999
Well at least that is a way for Lott to save face and possibly stay in the Senate. It really all depends upon how it's handled within the Senate and what the Senators choose to do. Based upon what I'm reading here from many of the so called conservative Republlicans, they want to hand Lott his head on a platter. If that mentality continues then imo opinion Lott has not choice but to resign and get away from the party that holds him in such contempt. Any person with any amount of self respect would leave, I believe. It appears Lott is despised by many on this forum.
808 posted on 12/15/2002 12:13:05 PM PST by deport
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To: Howlin
That quote is one more example of how our enemies are overextending their play here. Their hubris is at least equal to Lott's.

If we simply do the right thing and fight back aggressively and effectively, this whole thing is going to end up a net plus for the GOP over time.

The White House is playing their cards beautifully.
809 posted on 12/15/2002 12:13:11 PM PST by EternalVigilance
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To: BuddhaBoy
Do you know what a Judge is and how they get appointed.

Hint their name needs to be voted on. Judges are often much more important than the law.

This is a lie we told when the RATS stole the Senate from us.

With Tom conventional wisdom is stood on it's head anyway. He lost the Senate but kept his seat. He cares nothing about being fair or the country only about Liberalism.
810 posted on 12/15/2002 12:14:41 PM PST by ImphClinton
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To: marajade
People can change... Heck there's even hope for Clinton and his harrassment of women ...

Yea,if you get old enough,when you look at a woman all you see is someone who can hand you the remote to the tv

811 posted on 12/15/2002 12:15:14 PM PST by woofie
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To: GraniteStateConservative
Ping to post 805.
812 posted on 12/15/2002 12:15:29 PM PST by Torie
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To: Torie
Exactly. They cannot ALL be lying; granted they put their "spin" on the stories, but so do "our" people.

BTW, I just watched Tony Snow live on Fox with Bill Sammon and Juan Williams.

Juan and Sammon both said that there WAS a 90 minute conference call, and that Mitch McConnell was the one who said that Lott had threatened to resign if he was removed.

Yet another story to put in the pot.

I saw Howard Finnman on MSNBC and something else -- maybe Fox -- telling that same story. It sounds plausible to me; Lott is playing for his life now.

813 posted on 12/15/2002 12:15:48 PM PST by Howlin
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To: marajade
Chaffee has come out in support of Lott...

Hmmmm... so if the Republicans dump Lott, perhaps this will give Chaffee the reason to jump ship and become an independent.

814 posted on 12/15/2002 12:16:31 PM PST by rintense
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To: rightwing2
The major difference between the two??

Lott has more hair; Nickles has more cajones. Little Tommy Daschle will not be able to push around Nickles as he did the limp-wristed light-loafered pom-pon twirling cheerleader.

815 posted on 12/15/2002 12:16:49 PM PST by doug from upland
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To: TLBSHOW
You need to lighten up JUST a bit on the people who don't agree with you.

I surely haven't see Trent Lott stand up to the NAACP, have you?

816 posted on 12/15/2002 12:16:52 PM PST by Howlin
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To: woofie
Well my husband refers to me as the queen and himself as the gester...
817 posted on 12/15/2002 12:17:16 PM PST by marajade
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To: Howlin
Well what I read is that McConnell said he was just giving a history lesson. Frankly, my gut tells me that Lott has not threatened to resign.
818 posted on 12/15/2002 12:18:00 PM PST by Torie
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To: TLBSHOW
Yes it is. This is the type of crap I expect to see on the DU board, not Free Republic.
819 posted on 12/15/2002 12:18:12 PM PST by Walkin Man
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To: marajade
People can change, but what are we to think now that we look at the sum total of Lott's record, whether we consciously ignored it before or not.

Do you think he's changed? As someone else pointed out -- Torie maybe -- Lott did not EVER denouce the CCC until Friday.

820 posted on 12/15/2002 12:18:52 PM PST by Howlin
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