NANCY PELOSI Echoes Democrat Talking Points (You're Going To Hear These For The Next Two Years!)

Fox News Channel ^ | December 20, 2002 | N/A

[Illbay]

Nancy Pelosi just made a public statement on the resignation of Lott. Not TWO SENTENCES into the statement, she mentioned the election in Georgia where, she claims "the Republicans exploited white racist sentiment about the Confederate flag." This comes on the heels of similar statements by Bill Clinton yesterday. Batten down the hatches, folk. If you're a conservative and a Republican, you're going to be a "racist" for the next two years!

[engrpat]

Seems like a waste of time for the democrats. They must have the black vote to win, republicans don't and have proved it. Seems like they are preaching to congragation and not trying to bring in new floks to fill the church. Let them go on no matter how it goes they lose.

[Peach]

Clinton also gave the Presidential Medal of Honor to Sen. Fulbright and called him his mentor. Fulbright was an unapologetic racist and segrationist.

[RooRoobird14]

I would put my sights on Robert Byrd. Drag his KKK membership into full view. If they bring a knife to the fight... we bring a shotgun.

Exactly, Johnny7. The first thing the Senate GOP ought to do when they re-convene is introduce a resolution censuring Robert Byrd.

[Wphile]

It wasn't an issue in Georgia or North Carolina during this last campaign but the Dems want to make it look like it was. Pelosi is merely parroting clinton's remarks to CNN the other day. This is all happening because of clinton. It's unbelievable to me why they continue to follow clinton. What has he done for the democrats? Lost the House, lost the Senate, and lost the presidency. He may have won twice, but he sure is a drag on the rest of the party.

The new talking points...confederate flag in Georgia, NC. It was a nonissue during the campaign - no republican ran on it - but the dems never let the facts get in the way of their lies.

[RippleFire]

Batten down the hatches, folk. If you're a conservative and a Republican, you're going to be a "racist" for the next two years!

So what else is new?

[nutmeg]

*Barf Alert* Pelosi ping!

[sinkspur]

All of you need to remember this in the future, and at some point we have to draw a line in the sand.

Republicans are cowards. It's been proven over and over again.

There will be no lines in the sand by Republicans. If they won't do it over this, they won't do it over anything.

[jsraggmann]

State elections, exactly.

[Peach]

I know. I get tired of people saying something like the GOP made the confederate flag an issue during the campaign. There's no basis for the comment; didn't happen and I'm in SC. But then the sheeple start taking it as gospel. Why doesn't the GOP go out and DEFEND ITSELF on these charges?

[Tennessean4Bush]

Confederate Flag was and issue...There is simply no disputing that fact.

Where and when and how?

This is another case of a Democratic urban myth.

[wku man]

"I've often stated that conservatives, especially Republicans, are foolish to try to make support of inconsequential issues like the Confederate flag an issue at all. But whether they do or not, the Democrats are emboldened by the Keystone Kops reaction of the Republicans to the criticism of Lott's comments."

You and I have disagreed on this in the past, and will continue to do so. The Confederate battle flag is not inconsequential to many of us...it is powerfully symbolic to native Southerners. To us, it is a symbol of our homes, our families, our culture, and our way of life, not slavery, Jim Crow, segregation and racism as is the popular assertion. To folks in other parts of the nation (I've even seen it flying in New York and Pennsylvania!), it is a symbol of resistance to tyranny. If the race baiters and scumbag liberal Rats and Socialists want to take offense at it (whether real or pretend), that's their problem. My flag still flies, and woe to the little Commie piece of crap who dares try to take it down.

If Nancy Pelousy wants to pile on, that's fine. It'll just further stiffen the resolve of those of us who are not afraid to fight the ever-encroaching tyranny of Political Correctness. The Pubbies will further cave to the race baiters, and bring us yet another step closer to the flashpoint that's looming over the horizon. These are indeed "interesting" times.

Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!

[cynicom]

New???? quite a bit...This is the first time the republicans have joined forces with the democrats to destroy one of their own. When the democrats join the republicans in removing Robert byrd, let me know.

I will wait for Frist to get enough guts to ask for censure of Byrd.

[jsraggmann]

The new governor of GA will either change the flag back or put it up to a vote, like Mississippi did.

[The Vast Right Wing]

Republican talking points: Party founded by Abraham Lincoln, the Great Emancipator.

[Ff--150]

Yes, let's play make-believe, and play-like there are two different political parties across the fruited plains.

[Darnright]

>>Over at DU they are saying that the RATS should bring up the confederate flag for the next two years. Seems Clinton has written the policy and it has been faxed out to the mouthpieces.<<

Let them. And the Republicans can pat them on their childlike heads, and reply that Republicans are more concerned about things like creating opportunities for every American, and keeping our country safe, than whether some people want to hang on to a symbol of history.

[stanz]

I've hearing about them for 3 decades!

[Sir Gawain]

And here I was thinking you were a GOP cheerleader all the way.

[alaskanfan]

The public doesn't buy it. They judged Lott based on Lott.

I'm not so certain about the political savy of the common American. Not all people are as aware of politics as the posters on these forums.

After hearing the "man on the street" interviews on such programs as Sean Hannity, reading posts at du, I wonder just how much the common American knows about politics in general? Do they really consider the issues or just spout the rhetoric they hear from people they look up to whether they be leaders of the community or other public figures such as film stars, basketball players or musicians?

[goodnesswins]

The DEMS are like a member of your family who focuses on something from 30 years ago that happened....everyone else has moved on, except them, and they wonder why no one wants anything to do with them. Bring it on Dems, bring it on.