Commentary: Lott Throws In The Towel (Conservative base will be gone)

crosswalk ^ | 12/20/2002 | Gary Bauer

[OldFashionedAmerican]

The Right whimped out, and the Left won again. We can't even get rid of someone who demostratably broke Federal laws; (B.C.). But THEY can get rid of someone by twisting words, sticking together no matter how outrageous their position is, and by screaming to their boot licking media.

[Jorge]

Inadvertently, the libs have given us one victory -- stronger leadership in the Senate -- and an opportunity for another, even greater one. To dispell this whole evil notion that the GOP is composed of racists.

There is a reason why the Democrats backed off on their attacks and didn't want Lott removed...

Excellent point. They realized they showed their hand too soon...when it was too late.
This will turn out to be a positive opportunity for the GOP.

[TLBSHOW]

TLB stated that those who asked Lott to resign should be banned from Free Republic.

So Gary Bauer, Pat Buchanan, and Robert Novak columns it is.


I am having a great deal of fun exploring all the writers that did not mouth off from the Rove memo. Of get Lott. As far as I am concerned all the ones that did can write for Salon. LOL

[fightinJAG]

yeah, Bush is so "nice" to those who hate us, he goes and blows them away while they're driving their SUV across the desert.

[Wait4Truth]

I wonder if the President will address race in his State of the Union Address. That would be the best chance to reach a larger audience. So many questions...

[StopGlobalWhining]

Bill Frist has an 85 percent conservative rating.

Bill Frist is rated with a "D" on upholding the Creator endowed rights affirmed in the Second Amendment to the Constitution by Gun Owners of America (GOA)

Bill Frist is a "conservative"???

We have a far less conservative GOP Senate today than we had in January 2001. Gone are Phil Gramm, Jesse Helms and Bob Smith.

[GailA]

Here's the thread it is Frist 88 to Santorum 86, American Tax Payer Union also has Frist rated 2 points ahead of Santorum FR Thread

[Wait4Truth]

Well, you could go to acuratings.com and check them out. That's what I did. :-)

[TLBSHOW]

What is it with you? Affirmative action which Bush promotes as he has done already in court will be his downfall! I bet many many blacks will agree that we need to get rid of it Now.

Speaking of Now they need to go too......

[TLBSHOW]

Bush is fantastic with defense but tell me about CFR and why he signed it?

[fightinJAG]

I hope you are right about Hillary's remarks. Boy, didn't she look ugh-ly today? And since when did she actually start making media comments. This must be about Bubba dating Demi Moore---you know, the Clintons are finally going to separate so that the Witch can be free of him and run for the presidency. Thus, Witchy is beginning to pop up here and there in the media more often.

[Jhoffa_]

And George W. Bush, who jumped on Lott and all but labelled him a racist..

Dubya about had to come down hard on Lott in public.

Lott wasn't saying much, the whole incident and what he meant exactly was ambiguous. Everyone was uncertain and it was only a matter of time before someone put Dubya on the spot about it anyway.

I get the impression he came down hard on him in private also, and that's kind of troubling. (At the urging of Rove, perhaps?)

I think you're right about the cowardly, "Canonized Conservatives" though.

I couldn't believe my eyes when the nicest, most compassionate, understanding & all around most decent comment I heard about his mistake was from Tom Daschle.

I didn't care why Daschle said what he did, I was just amazed that he said it while the supposed "conservatives" were all readying Lott's noose.

[Poohbah]

You took up all that bandwidth to say nothing. Absolutely zero.

Wrong. I merely pointed out that making broad-brush statements about how most "politically aware" Americans want the executive branch to file an amicus brief in the UofMich case, in the absence of any sort of statistically valid polling, is kinda sily.

Your opinion is that Americans aren't interested in where the Bush administration stands on affirmative action.

There are slightly more important things on the minds of most Americans I've run into recently. Affirmative action just ain't on the radar screen, unless you're talking about taking affirmative action against Saddam Hussein.

[Wait4Truth]

It's Sherry, not Sharon - but that's ok. I think more highly of Senator Lott now that he has stepped down from the ML role. I have no plans to criticize him anymore and I haven't today. I have been fighting against the lies against Bill Frist today. The lies being spread about him have been sickening.

[Poohbah]

I bet many many blacks will agree that we need to get rid of it Now.

And your evidence for this statement is...?

(Cue Final Jeopardy theme)

[Poohbah]

I get the impression he came down hard on him in private also, and that's kind of troubling.

What's really troubling is that Lott didn't take the hint and clean up his mess.

[jwalsh07]

My opinion stands, you're clueless.

[Reagan Man]

>>>So many questions...

Depends on the level of political recovery the GOP makes between now and then. I don't think PresBush wants to feed the passions of racial strife and open old wounds.

[Wait4Truth]

Oh! And Merry Christmas to you, too, sink! I hope we can all unite again one of these days. I hate flame wars and don't usually get too involved in them but I was really upset over all of this. You were, too. Let's pray that this backfires on the RATS. It very well could.

[fightinJAG]

One of the reasons we could not get rid of the criminal creep, Bubba? TRENT LOTT (leader of the sham impeachment trial).