Posted on 12/15/2002 7:59:46 AM PST by ewing
A bit dramatic oh inspired one.
I would expect nothing less from a U.S. Senator, or any other American for that matter. It just so happens that I don't agree with the majority of his conclusions.
How have his specific votes, on specific measures, impacted your own personal gun ownership and usage?
He voted against replealing the Clinton/Brady medium capacity magazine ban. This limits my 9mm handgun to 10 rounds, when the gun was meant to hold 18..
I said sometime back that I saw one of the principle reasons for this sudden attack on Lott as a racist, if the misconception of many (particular northerner's) that all Southerners are inherently racist.
I am what they call a damn yankee. I have lived in the south for the majority of my 52 years, and I had to overcome the misconceptions taught to me in northern schools and society. Therefore, I can still view both sides of this issue and what I tell you is absolutely true!
Prejudice is and never has been confined to the south. Many northerners believe that the civil war was fought over slavery as the primary issue. A silly thought, but so prevalent!
Do you think for a minute that thousands of poor whites went into battle to protect the interests of a few white slave-owners? Hell NO!
They fought for the freedom to decide what was best for them and not to be bullied by a central government that refused to see their issues and their needs.
Lott is not in any way racist! He grew up in the south with the same issues all Southerners have. That is the unfair federal power over the southern states in the form of forced this and that in order to satisfy the yankee carpet baggers. They still are sensitive to this issue, but we as southerners grew and got past the slavery issue a hundred years ago.
It is the Northerner and the liberal, it is the Jesse jackson's and the Congressional Black Caucus socialists that continue to keep this issue alive and beat southerners over the head with it each and every day.
We have had enough!
Huh?
Frist is physician who has stated countless times that abortion is abhorrent and should be banned. Are you confusing him with one of the New England RINOs?
Partial Birth Abortion Ban Passage, S. 1692 (Roll Call Vote No. 340). Passage of the bill that would ban a certain late-term abortion procedure, in which the physician partially delivers the fetus before completing the abortion. Anyone convicted of performing such an abortion would be subject to a fine and up to two years in prison. The penalties would not apply if the abortion is necessary to save the mothers life.
FRIST VOTED YES
3. Prison Abortions. S. 2500 (roll call vote 235). DeGette (D-CO) ammendment to the Commerce, Justice, State Appropriations Bill that would have permitted the use of taxpayer funds for abortion services in federal prisons.
FRIST VOTED NO
13. Banning Military Abortions, S. 2549 (Roll Call Vote No. 134). The Senate voted to kill and amendment that would have provided abortions in military hospitals.
FRIST VOTED YES
17 . Morning After Pill, HR 4577 (Roll Call Vote No. 169). The Senate refused to kill an amendment stopping the use of federal funds to distribute the morning after pill on school grounds.
FRIST VOTED YES TO KILL THE AMENDMENT
Pro-life physician Sen. Bill Frist (R-TN) asserted that the partial-birth abortion procedure should be banned "because it is needlessly risky and dangerous for the woman, because it is inhumane and painful to the fetus, because it is absolutely unnecessary and because it is ethically unacceptable."
Not really good news, IMHO.
This means the democrats are making a serious run and are getting rid of any old failures.
This opens the field to a candidate that may have a chance.
Republicans need to take this as a warning shot across the bow.
Only because useful idiots like you will aid and abet the Democrats in their smear campaigns.
Constitutionally, never, but since when does anybody pay any attention to that?
Uhhh... no.
You have to make up your mind here: either Lott is a vile racist, or he is not.
Evidently you just want to smear him enough with the "RACIST!!! RACIST!!! RACIST!!!" brush to make somebody else majority leader, but not enough to give up the Senate seat.
For someone with such high moral standards, they sure are flexible.
False dilemma, the math is simple:
Lott is too much of a liability to be Majority Leader, but not such a liability we need to sacrifice a majority in the Senate.
Oklahoma Senator Don Nickles
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Bill Frist screwed conservatives badly as head of the Senatorial Campaign Committee in the 2002 election cycle; and therefore doesn't deserve one ounce of support from conservatives now.
And just exactly what makes you believe Lott will be the last, genius? If this works, the next two years are going to be nothing but this same tactic used on conservative after conservative after conservative. The DEMONcRAT machine was built on demogaguery, and we have handed them a new way to use it on a silver platter.
If Lott resigns, he will not just resign from majority leader. He will resign, period, and the STUPID PARTY will once again snatch defeat from the jaws of victory and hand the majority back to the DEMONcRATS.
So did your math take into account that if Lott does resign, he will resign PERIOD?
What more perfect revenge on the sleazebags like you who ginned up this "RACIST!!! RACIST!!! RACIST!!!" smear so you could get somebody in as majority leader you like better.
Conveniently enough, your high moral standards dicate that Trent is too big a racist to remain as leader, but they are flexible enough to allow a RACIST RACIST RACIST to remain in office to preserve your majority.
If you win, Trent will resign from the Senate, and once again the STUPID PARTY will snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
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