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Democrats: A Lott of trouble (ANN COULTERS VIEWS ON TRENT LOTT ATTACK)
worldnetdaily ^ | 12/18/2002 | Ann Coulter

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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To: VaBthang4
Your the rat that needs to go
241 posted on 12/18/2002 6:44:05 PM PST by TLBSHOW
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To: jwalsh07
Whew...thanks!
242 posted on 12/18/2002 6:44:59 PM PST by Right_in_Virginia
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To: ApesForEvolution
Haha what? I didnt understand your post. :o)
243 posted on 12/18/2002 6:45:06 PM PST by VaBthang4
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To: VaBthang4
note to self
244 posted on 12/18/2002 6:46:02 PM PST by visualops
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To: ApesForEvolution
Yeah, what you said! LOL! :)

I know that I will piss off people for stating the obvious, but Lott has to go as Majority Leader. He is a lightning rod for carville & co. Just like Hillary is a lightning rod for most people who live outside of New York City and the DC beltway.

Let him have some non-social chairmanship where his followers on principle can watch him hours on end on C-Span 2.

Sheesh, some people on FR think there is a lynching of Lott going on, when the truth is Lott lynched himself, just like Hillary did in 94 with Hillarycare, IMO.

245 posted on 12/18/2002 6:46:27 PM PST by Dane
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To: TLBSHOW
When Lott was being accused as a 'racist' I was angry at the Democrats. However, Lott has now ONCE AGAIN caved in to the Democrats on BET, and I've had enough caving in on the important issues by this man. He is NO leader. I've asked Kay Bailey to vote against him. Does anyone have an email address for Cornyn yet?
246 posted on 12/18/2002 6:47:11 PM PST by Alissa
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To: TLBSHOW
Haha...yeah.

By the way you didnt respond. You said we should be careful about letting former rats into FR.

Would you allow Trent Lott in?

~Grin~

Dont be bitter. And you can save the personal shots...they wont move me. When you're right...that tends to be the case.
247 posted on 12/18/2002 6:47:16 PM PST by VaBthang4
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To: TLBSHOW; hole_n_one; VaBthang4
What's that? I heard something from the "CUSTER CAUCUS", but I couldn't make it out.

TLBSHOW, *you* are the divide and concurrer if *ever* there was one.

*YOU* are deemed what you smear others you disagree with.

I say this to you because you might mean well, but friends don't let friends...ahh, never mind.
248 posted on 12/18/2002 6:47:32 PM PST by ApesForEvolution
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To: ApesForEvolution
You know what I find funny? Crisis after crisis the Bush (rove) led republicans always seem to come out on top. Ill wait until everything is said in done after January to panic like our good buddy TLBSHOW. Until then, im going to support the republicans who want a new ML leader.
249 posted on 12/18/2002 6:47:41 PM PST by smith288
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To: VaBthang4
You do now! LOL!
250 posted on 12/18/2002 6:48:24 PM PST by ApesForEvolution
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To: Dane
And I repeat...Yeah, what you said!!! LOL!!!!
251 posted on 12/18/2002 6:49:16 PM PST by ApesForEvolution
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To: visualops
10 letters
252 posted on 12/18/2002 6:49:20 PM PST by VaBthang4
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To: ApesForEvolution
No...sorry. Still dont get it.

253 posted on 12/18/2002 6:51:02 PM PST by VaBthang4
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To: smith288
"You know what I find funny? Crisis after crisis the Bush (rove) led republicans always seem to come out on top. Ill wait until everything is said in done after January to panic like our good buddy TLBSHOW. Until then, im going to support the republicans who want a new ML leader"

(giggle) Well, don't grow weary in well doing. Politics isn't for the faint-hearted, but it's where we win or lose America. Fight the good fight with faith. This is *BIG* for the future and the time is NOW.
254 posted on 12/18/2002 6:52:09 PM PST by ApesForEvolution
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To: jwalsh07
I am agreeing with your analysis. It emboldens the left across the board.

I don't agree jwalsh, they've gained absolutely zero, as a matter of fact they've lost ground.

They know that Lott was a weak leader at the start. They expected republicans to act just like them and circle the wagons around Lott like they did with Clinton. We didn't. Instead, we waited for him to fix his own mess and he made it worse.

Do you really believe he went out on vacation without someone telling him he had a mess on his hands? His first "apology" wasn't exactly an apology. He was probably "counciled" on the proper thing to say but he "forgot".

The whole first week everyone, including the president, waited for him to pick up the ball and run with it. Had he done so, everyone would have been there defending him. He didn't. He made it worse and had to be publically rebuked before it even dawned on him that he had a problem.

Anyway, to make a long story short, we didn't stand beside him as more and more of his past was revealed. The democrats wanted more than anything for that to happen so they could have tarred us, and our policies, as racists. They lost on that count and they lost a weak leader of the republican caucus.

255 posted on 12/18/2002 6:52:25 PM PST by McGavin999
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To: ApesForEvolution
okay I got it.

The structure threw me off.
256 posted on 12/18/2002 6:52:31 PM PST by VaBthang4
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To: VaBthang4
Stick with checkers though.
LOL!

Oh and next time....bring a dictionary.
Bite me!

257 posted on 12/18/2002 6:53:11 PM PST by hole_n_one
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To: VaBthang4; hole_n_one
You two, while having fun, I'm sure, were killing the thread. No offense to either of you (I couldn't keep up with it all), but we have a common enemy and you both fell for their divide and conquer strategy. To both of you, a very, very Merry Christmas. And God's speed.
258 posted on 12/18/2002 6:54:23 PM PST by ApesForEvolution
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To: Darling Lili
Yeah, right. That's why the democrats are all dying to keep him there. ;)

Lanny Davis was defending him on H&C a little while ago.:-)

259 posted on 12/18/2002 6:55:35 PM PST by alnick
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To: VaBthang4
roflmao!

just wanted to 'bookmark', so to speak.
I guess the term here is 'bump'?
260 posted on 12/18/2002 6:56:52 PM PST by visualops
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