Missed ya all, big time, though.
Too bad you weren't here first hand, to see the public behavior of so called conservatives, on this ultimate conservative website. I'm sure you've either done some checking already, or will be doing so shortly. I'll tell you, it hasn't been a pretty sight, this last week. Frankly, I've been appalled at the willingness of self professed conservatives and rank and file Republicans, to join in the condemnation chorus calling for Lott's head. It's been truly sickening.
Many of us wanted Lott to step down after the Jeffords fiasco last year and many of us still would like a new GOP leader to be chosen. But under the circumstances, with the all the race baiting coming from the left, every true blue conservative Republican should be challenging these trumped up charges that have been fabricated against Trent Lott. Conservatives shouldn't be turning tail and running from this fight. Rather we all should be standing against the excesses of, hysterical rhetoric and extreme political correctness, based on some fear factor.
Many Republicans fought long and hard to retake the Senate and give PresBush a GOP controlled Congress. Now there are so many folks willing to give it up and hand that control back to the Daschle and Company. The political world has been turned upside down in the last week and I fear, it will be a while before things get back on the right track.
I'm hopeful and optimistic about the future for the GOP, just disgusted with the spineless behavior of a significant portion of conservatives and Republicans alike.
God help, the Grand Old Party!
If we're all very, very quiet for the next couple of hours it looks like Gore just handed us a BIG, HUGE gift. His announcement just knocked this whole thing off the front page. :o)
Next time your not on-line without an announcement, give me a call. We missed you.
(Didn't we do a notification program a few years ago? E-mail addresses and phone numbers? I thought you had a list).
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Well, at any rate, on this 'Mr. Lott, When-Exactly-Did-You-Stop-Lynching-Blacks?' news conference Friday, I offer my two cents:
Great piece JohnHuang2. It made me think of this David Horowitz piece.
***…….There is a superficial sense, of course, in which we were civil rights and peace activists-and that is certainly the way I would have described myself at the time, particularly if I were speaking to a non-left audience. It is certainly the way Mrs. Clinton and my former comrades in the left refer to themselves and their pasts in similar contexts today. But they are lying. (And when they defend racial preferences now-a principle they denounced as "racist" then-even they must know it).
The first truth about leftist missionaries, about believing progressives, is that they are liars. But they are not liars in the ordinary way, which is to say by choice. They are liars by necessity-often without even realizing that they are. Because they also lie to themselves. It is the political lie that gives their cause its life.
Why, for example, if you were one of them, would you tell the truth? If you were serious about your role in humanity's vanguard, if you had the knowledge (which others did not), that you were certain would lead them to a better world, why would you tell them a truth that they could not "understand" and that would hold them back?*** Excerpted from Hillary Clinton and the Racial Left - David Horowitz
WOW! This is GREAT!
Boy, you came back to FR with a vengeance! I've really missed you and your $.02! Good to see ya'! ;o)