Trent Lott, Bill Clinton, and career politicians

TownHall.com ^ | 12/17/02 | Dennis Prager

[RonDog]

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[Sabertooth]

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[alnick]

If Lott would have followed this strategy, not only would this have already blown over, he'd be widely respected for the way that he handled the situation.

[MeekOneGOP]

Trent Lott, Bill Clinton, and career politicians

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[FBD]

Has Lott apologized again today yet? I expect it will have to be a daily occurance, for the rest of his career. He is damaged goods...

I also hear he is going to start working with the wacky Major Owens on some project as a sign of his repentance.

[My2Cents]

True. Lott was clearly in damage-control mode last week, with the aim of saving his sorry rearend, rather than actually apologizing for his insensitivity.

[My2Cents]

Major Owens...Is this the guy who claimed that sharks still circle the former trade route of slave ships?

I saw a bit of Lott on BET last night, and he's reached the point of grovelling. It's embarrassing. And the fact that he's now sold his soul in support of affirmative action shows how actually damaging keeping him as majority leader will be.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the heads up!

[Dustbunny]

WOW !!!

Well said !!

[cake_crumb]

Lott COULD have gotten out of this relatively unscathed, IF he had been honest, straightforard and stuck by the principles of his party. Instead (especially after that BET thing last night) he seems bent on handing the Democrats his OWN head on a platter...at first, I truly believed that we MUST fight for him to remain majority leader...but after the AA flip-flop and the smarmy bribe offer to black Americans in general...the party is probably better off without him as majority leader.

[cake_crumb]

It sure IS well said!

[Poohbah]

Prager is definitely one of the more thoughtful moral commentators of our day.

He sums it up in a nutshell: Lott screwed up. That's bad enough. But then Lott compounded the screwup by not promptly clearing the air about it.

[BOBTHENAILER]

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[Howlin]

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[mhking]

Perfect.

Had Lott said something akin to this, he would have been forgiven. There would have been some grumbling, there would have been some hand-wringing. But in the larger picture, Lott would have been viewed as a statesman, and an honorable man.

Instead, we're left with this sniveling, groveling, mewling animal who looks like the sick monkey on the Sprint commercials.

Lott handed the right the KY and bent over. And he's doing his level best to get the rest of the Right to do the same damn thing.

[Mo1]

YEP .. BINGO

[Willie Green]

The issue is not whether Trent Lott, the man, can be forgiven for his awful comments. He can be forgiven.

The issue is whether or not Lott even NEEDS "forgiveness".

The ONLY thing the man is guilty of is saying some flattering remarks to a senile old geezer who happened to continue breathing long enough to become 100 years old.
For this, the 'Rat poverty pimps wish to crucify him on the cross of political correctness, joined by a mob of spineless RINOs who're willing to capitulate to their extortive demands.

[cake_crumb]

"Had Lott said something akin to this, he would have been forgiven. There would have been some grumbling, there would have been some hand-wringing. But in the larger picture, Lott would have been viewed as a statesman, and an honorable man."

Unfortunately, he did the exact opposite. Now the entire Republican party (all but Lott) is being blamed for Lott's blatantly CRAVEN behavior by a few people who claim to be Republicans. This is SOOO bizarre!