Trent Lott will become a simple Senator from Mississippi, and will not resign that seat until Haley Barbour gets elected governor, at the earliest.
Posted on 12/18/2002 3:51:50 PM PST by TLBSHOW
Democrats: A Lott of trouble
I'm just glad Strom Thurmond isn't around to see this.
Statisticians believe Trent Lott is now on track to break Bill Clinton's single-season record for public apologies. During his recent B.E.T. appearance, Lott said he supported affirmative action, regretted voting against the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, and that he'd give "The Bernie Mac Show" another try.
What the Lott incident shows is that Republicans have to be careful about letting Democrats into our party. Back when they supported segregation, Lott and Thurmond were Democrats. This is something the media are intentionally hiding to make it look like the Republican Party is the party of segregation and race discrimination, which it never has been.
In 1948, Thurmond did not run as a "Dixiecan," he ran as a "Dixiecrat" – his party was an offshoot of the Democratic Party. And when he lost, he went right back to being a Democrat. This whole brouhaha is about a former Democrat praising another former Democrat for what was once a Democrat policy.
Republicans made Southern Democrats drop the race nonsense when they entered the Republican Party. Democrats supported race discrimination, then for about three years they didn't, now they do again. They've just changed which race they think should be discriminated against. In the 1920s, the Democratic platforms didn't even call for anti-lynching legislation as the Republican platforms did.
Thurmond's Dixiecrat Party was not the only extremist spin-off from the Democratic Party in 1948. Henry Wallace, formerly FDR's vice president and agriculture secretary, left the Democratic Party that year to form the communist-dominated and Soviet-backed "Progressive Party." Much as Thurmond's Dixiecrat Party was expressly pro-segregation, Wallace's Progressive Party was expressly pro-Soviet.
Indeed, this was the apex of Moscow-directed subversion of U.S. politics. The Progressive Party platform excluded even the mildest criticism of Soviet aggression. It will come as no surprise that many American celebrities supported Wallace. The Progressives received 1 million votes nationwide, about the same as Thurmond's Dixiecrat Party.
Thurmond went on to reject segregation, become a Republican, and serve his country well as a U.S. senator. By contrast, running a communist-dominated presidential campaign was Wallace's last hurrah. Yet only an off-the-cuff remark at a birthday party praising Thurmond's presidential campaign is the career-destroyer. Not so fawning references to Wallace's Soviet-backed presidential campaign.
Just two years before Lott's remarks, a hagiographic book on Wallace's life was released, titled "American Dreamer." How about a book about a segregationist titled "American Dreamer"? Wallace's version of the American "dream" was communism every bit as much as Strom Thurmond's dream was segregation. Aren't dreams of murderous dictators, gulags and death camps at least comparable in evil to segregated lunch counters?
The dust jacket on "American Dreamer" featured a nauseating statement of praise by U.S. Sen. Edward Kennedy. Kennedy said that the book deserved "to be read by all who care about the American dream." The American dream: communist totalitarianism. Why wasn't the lecherous liberal asked to retire for his flattering remarks about a proven Soviet fifth columnist?
In 1999, the Clinton administration dedicated a room at the Agriculture Department to Wallace. At the dedication, former Democratic presidential candidate George McGovern gave a speech explicitly praising Wallace's pro-Soviet positions, such as the idea that the Cold War was "overdone" and that "problems" between the nations "could not be resolved by military means."
McGovern fondly recalled that he himself had voted for Wallace. He chipperly reminded the audience that he had run for president in 1972 "on a similar platform" – with the help of a young Yale law school graduate named Bill Clinton. Inasmuch as Trent Lott was in kindergarten in 1948, he did not vote for Thurmond. He did not run on a "similar" platform to the Dixiecrats. He did not write a jacket-flap endorsement calling a segregationist an "American Dreamer."
The idea that Lott took the occasion of an old timer's birthday to introduce a new policy initiative to bring back segregation – a Democrat policy – is ludicrous. Lott is a fine fellow; he just has some sort of liberal-Tourette's syndrome that makes him spout Democrat ideas at random. A few years ago, Lott practically wanted to give the adulterous Air Force pilot Kelly Flinn a silver star for her service. Remember that?
Up until two weeks ago, conservatives were clamoring for Lott's removal precisely because of his annoying habit of saying dumb things. (Showing their inferior intellect, liberals have only recently figured that out.) Republicans should ask Lott to step down as leader, but only for all the nice things he's said about Teddy Kennedy.
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Bacon, Lettuce, Tomatoes, Cheese, Pepper, Miracle Whip, Sandwich Dills, 12 Grain Whole Wheat...and a side of gourmet chips.
Tonight....
Bacon, Lettuce, Tomato, 1 slice American, 1 slice Swiss, Light Pepper, Deli Dill, Miracle Whip and.....FRESH LOTTED 12 GRAIN WHOLE WHEAT!! ..... With a side of gourmet chips
Tonight's seems to be a bit more detailed.......
I can't wait to see what tomorrow's looks like.
Perhaps Romain lettuce?
Trent Lott will become a simple Senator from Mississippi, and will not resign that seat until Haley Barbour gets elected governor, at the earliest.
Of course he's sincere. He'd have to be a complete retard NOT to want that walking screw-up as Leader of the opposing party.
Actually, after Trent got his grovel groove going I would have preferred he go anywhere but back to the senate.
But I'm arguing that Lott is going to stay now because you've been played like a violin and you can look forward to lots of hate crimes, hate speech, hate thoughts and hate inferred thoughts legislation coming out of the senate.
Lott has culpability but so do those who took this opportunity to to join an unholy alliance with the bad guys and dump him for a sentence that was at worst ambiguous and which Bob Dole and Paul Simon have said was benign.
I may be wrong about where this will end but I don't think so.
No kiddin?
And Trent Lott is the poster boy and ring leader of such cave-ins. Now we know why... he doesn't have a clue about racial matters.
Do you really think we'll stand up to future race-baiting under Lott? He's in turbo-charged grovel mode.
Every possible downside to him leaving is actually far worse if he stays as Majority Leader. Trent Lott operates contrary to the very principles you claim are served by defending him.
So what is there to admire about embracing his self-destruction?
Definately not! For Christ sakes Thurmond wasn't pro-slavery but for segregation, or separate but equal. Wallace's slavery for all is a hell of lot more EVIL! Turn in your conservative secret decoder ring.
Now, I'm simply offering observations as to where this is all headed.
The good part is you can bookmark my observations and make me eat them if I'm wrong.
Both Carville and Jackson are calling for simple censure. The cookiest of cooky Liberals. Are you blind man?
Who is in an unholy alliance?
Our desire to see Lott step down [or be forced down] has nothing to do with what Liberals want at this moment. It is a logical and competent political move meant to stop the enemies at the gate. You would give them their own boy sitting right at our kitchen table.
OK, now be a man and go find the quote where I mentioned Ann Coulter.
Get that bib ready!
The more savvy Democrats want Lott to be reahabbed as Majority Leader. They know a good thing when they see it.
Why would anyone want to give them two years of soundbites and attack ads in 2004, even as Lott is led by the nose to redeem himself at the expense of party and country?
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