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To: grania
Lott, along with just about everyone else inside the Beltway, who opened their mouths, reacted in a ridiculous way to the recent flap. (See Trent Lott Affair--Anatomy & Context Of A Smear.)

That said, I think that we can expect some further fall out, now that the Left has successfully flexed their muscle. Although that success reflected more the lack of moral fibre among politicians in general, rather than anything persuasive in their argument, it has encouraged them. And, as a practical matter, the need to get our borders closed to third world immigration, will encounter a lot of nasty rhetoric by those who will suggest that it is "racist" to want to maintain the traditional character of the population. They will continue to play that card until we stand up and demonstrate that it will not work for them.

Our position is not hopeless. But we need to rediscover the basic values, which have always included family ties, common culture, kith and kin and shared history--that a nation is not a game of musical chairs.

William Flax

17 posted on 12/29/2002 7:35:02 PM PST by Ohioan
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To: Ohioan
That said, I think that we can expect some further fall out, now that the Left has successfully flexed their muscle...Interesting passage from A.Coulter's Slander I ran across today:
"An annoying typical Republican response to liberal hate speech is to attack one's friends in order to appease one's enemies. Democrats still hate the Republican appeasers, they just hate them a little less. And when it comes time for the left to tear down the conciliators, these Republican "moderates" won't have many friends left willing to defend them. As Winston Chruchill said, appeasment reflects the hope that the crocodile will eat you last. With some portion of (admittedly craven) Republicans casually acknowledging the liberal premise that conservatives are mean and hateful, the left is emboldened to carry on with ever greater insolence."
Prescient.....
24 posted on 12/29/2002 9:09:41 PM PST by Intolerant in NJ
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