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

crosswalk ^ | 12/20/2002 | Gary Bauer

[TLBSHOW]

Commentary: Lott Throws In The Towel Gary Bauer President, American Values

After days of endless apologizing, Trent Lott has thrown in the towel and resigned as Senate Majority Leader. Late last night he began making phone calls to GOP colleagues to let them know his decision.

Also over night the White House began a more concerted push to replace Lott with Senator Bill Frist, who will now emerge as the "frontrunner."

Frist is a savvy media personality, but he angered many conservatives by interfering in Republican primaries around the country, virtually always in favor of the moderate candidate over the conservative. And he was a staunch supporter of former Surgeon General Satcher, who was pro-abortion. I hope a more reliable conservative-- either Nickles or Santorum-- will throw their hat in the ring.

Now comes the hard part. This mess doesn't end with Lott's resignation. The GOP needs to find its backbone. One example: There are reports that the Administration is now afraid to go into court against the University of Michigan's offensive racial quota system that selects students from certain minority groups regardless of grades while rejecting white students with much higher grades.

For 30 years the Republicans have opposed these quasi-quota schemes. Are we now going to throw in the towel because of the smear campaign against Republicans of the last two weeks?

Some insiders are suggesting there will be reluctance at the White House to nominate conservative judges. Such reports better be inaccurate or the conservative base of the party will be gone.

Let me bring up again one easy way for the White House to signal that it knows how to play hardball and help Americans of all races. Many Washington D.C. schools are abysmal and the children, mostly black, trapped in them are ill served. The White House should send a school voucher program to Capitol Hill on the first day of the new Congress just for the District of Columbia. Ted Kennedy will scream. Hillary Clinton will pull her hair out. Daschle will reach for the Maalox. And they will line up and vote "no" against those black families and in favor of the teacher unions.

Last year Bush dropped his voucher plan because Kennedy refused to let it out of Committee, but there should be no cave in this time.

[lainde]

BTTT

[eddie willers]

I am looking for a way to repair the damage

That was done today.

[skeeter]

Was this before or after Lott threw himself on the mercy of the liberal left, confessed that he was part of an "immoral" racist southern GOP and pledged his support for affirmative action or whatever other position might help redeem his image with the left wing racebaiters?

Before.

[TLBSHOW]

wrong, it has just begun

[Texasforever]

Why don't all of us just stop the debate. It is settled and for good or ill Lott is out and Frist is in. Only time will tell if this is a good thing. It is no longer rational to defend or damn Trent Lott since he is now irrelevant. I came down on one side and many of my fellow "bushbots" took the opposite stance. It does put to rest, I hope, that Bush supporters are mindless drones that are incapable of taking issue with each other or the president. I hope one issue does not have the power to break old alliances and efforts. Besides, I got an early Christmas present of DSL and can now make a fool of myself 20 times faster.

[Texas Eagle]

STOP the freeking idiot cry baby wacko right wing all or nothing rants !

It's not a rant. It's the raising of a red flag. We wackos are ready, willing and able to hold Bill Frist's feet to the fire.

[skeeter]

Actually, Frist has an 88% lifetime, 92% in 2000 and 100% in 2001.

He's certainly trending in the right direction...

[eddie willers]

[Lott] He was born October 9, 1941, in Grenada County, Mississippi.....

Trent Lott Biography

I guess an idiot could still be in Kindergarden at age 7.

[TLBSHOW]

One of the better posts of the night. :>)

Merry Christmas my friend hey you can tell some stories about you and me freeping rats at other sites LOL

[Texasforever]

Merry Christmas my friend hey you can tell some stories about you and me freeping rats at other sites LOL

LOL

[TLBSHOW]

It's not a rant. It's the raising of a red flag. We are ready, willing and able to hold Bill Frist's feet to the fire.


BUMP

[eddie willers]

wrong, it has just begun

You've been a know-nothing since you first stomped onto this website.

[TLBSHOW]

yeah but Trent is our idiot isn't he?

[TLBSHOW]

She came Pretty close.

[Howlin]

I appreciate you need to direct your restless energies somewhere.

Exactly. When you've been banned on all the antiFreeper sites and you LIKE being contrarian, I guess you have nothing else to do except return "home" and trash your so-called family.

[america-rules]

""Right wing, all or nothing rants," you say" ? You are at least partially correct. The reality is, that if the right wing doesn't get "all" we ask for, (as humble as our demands are) the Republican party has "nothing" to distinguish it from the DemonRATS."

I just spent the last two hours on the ACU site and looked at every rating from every member of congress and it's amazing how the GOP eats it's own.

95% of the Liberals on the Dem side have a conservative rating of 10-20 but we call them liberals all the way.

Then we look at the GOP side where 90% have a liberal rating of 10-15 (Or a 85-90 ACU rating) and we call them liberals, moderates, RINOS, sell outs etc..

I've never heard a 80% Liberal be called a sell out or a conservative or a LINO !

[TLBSHOW]

EDDIE IT HAS JUST BEGUN!

The fact is if we stand together we will defeat the democrats and send them back to the stone age!

[TLBSHOW]

Thanks dear but if you look at tos the bar is dead isn't it. Like the whole site. LOL

Plus as an extra bonus I kept em busy during the election and they didn't bother FR much! Did they...

[eddie willers]

The fact is if we stand together we will defeat the democrats and send them back to the stone age!

Not if you back losers like Lott.
The Dems stayed loyal to that dirtbag Clinton.
What did they gain?...derision!

What did it cost them?...
The House, The Senate and Presidency!

Defend that which is worth defending.

[aristeides]

SCOTUS puts a lot of weight in what DOJ argues. If DOJ argues against the race quotas, SCOTUS will almost certainly rule against them. If DOJ argues for the race quotas, SCOTUS will probably rule in favor of them. If DOJ argues for neither side, things become unclear -- I would bet SCOTUS would rule against the quotas, but it all comes down to O'Connor's vote.