So Much More Than Lott

newsmax ^ | 12/31/2002 | Barry Farber

[Austin Willard Wright]

I just don't get it. Why are sensible wasting time making Traitor "affirmative action across the board" Lott into some sort of martyr.

[cynicom]

Not all of the republican party turned their back on Lott, Bush was right up front, showing the democrat/media firing squad where to fire salvo after salvo. Then he had the gall after Lott stepped down to say, Lott was his friend and he respected him. What a hypocrite.

[Thane_Banquo]

Am I the only one troubled by this Republican unconditional surrender to an obviously phony charge?

Yes, you are. The GOP wisely used Lott's statement as an excuse to to get rid of someone who was for a long time a severe liability. Lott was easily rolled by Democrats to do whatever they wished, and after his statement, it would have been even easier for the Dem's to control the Majority Leader.

[BuddhaBoy]

The Republican party used an opportunity from the Democrats to lance a boil named Trent Lott from their ass.

[Austin Willard Wright]

That's "sensible conservatives."

[Ragin1]

"I am a conservative," the syndrome goes. "Therefore, when I commit a liberal or an anti-conservative act, the liberals will love me."

Sounds like the first line of the Republican platform. Spineless jellyfish.

[Thane_Banquo]

Its interesting how after Lott was forced out, some conservatives whine about how Bush didn't stop the coup, yet they conveniently forget that when Lott was Majority Leader, he was no friend to the conservative movement. Need I bring up his treatment of the impeachment managers, or his brilliant "power-sharing" idea that ended up with Democrats in control of the Senate?

Lott may very well be Bush's friend, and Bush may very well respect him, but that does not mean Bush wants him as Majority Leader. I'm sure the First Canine is Bush's friend, but that doesn't mean the President would make him curator of the Rose Garden.

[cynicom]

Thane...<p.

Can you tell us the name of the first American president that handpicked the Senate majority leader?????

[joesnuffy]

Yes, you are. The GOP wisely used Lott's statement as an excuse to to get rid of someone who was for a long time a severe liability. Lott was easily rolled by Democrats to do whatever they wished, and after his statement, it would have been even easier for the Dem's to control the Majority Leader.

All politicans are whores to some degree or another.....its the nature of the beast...
Lott needed to go...a chicken shitte way to get rid of him via slander...no doubt aobut it....
Do Republicans get down & dirty...yes indeedie ometimes they do...nobody's perfect

But the Demoncraps are evil and led merrily along that route by the Clintlers and their ilk...imo

[M. Thatcher]

Can you tell us the name of the first American president that handpicked the Senate majority leader?????

You obviously prefer the twit handpicked by Bob Dole.

There are precisely four human beings on the planet still stewing about Trent Lott's being gloriously deposed and they are all on this thread. A toast to you all, and may you spend the entire year in this unproductive state.

[sinkspur]

Am I the only one troubled by this Republican unconditional surrender to an obviously phony charge?

Nope. Republicans are gutless cowards.

This won't be the last time they'll run like scalded dogs when race rears its head. Bush is already folding like a $2 suitcase on the tax cuts, preferring to throw a bone to those who don't pay taxes rather than accelerate the cuts for those who do.

Cowardice is genetic to the GOP.

[TLBSHOW]

Hear and heed, now, Republicans. All your friends and all your foes now know where your buttons are and exactly how high and how quickly you will jump when they're pushed.

INTERESTING STORY!

[Thane_Banquo]

Probably one of the first Presidents to have his party in control of the Senate. The President is the absolute ruler of his party while he is in power. No national leadership position is filled without his OK.

[sinkspur]

There are precisely four human beings on the planet still stewing about Trent Lott's being gloriously deposed and they are all on this thread.

Wrong. There are many voters warily eyeing the GOP for its next capitulation to the race pimps. They've seen how a man can be capriciously thrown overboard for misspeaking.

What's next? Kicking Cass Ballenger out of the House for having a black-faced lawn jockey in his yard? (He painted it white, by the way, another example of a GOP politician shaking-in-his-boots.)

[Jorge]

There are precisely four human beings on the planet still stewing about Trent Lott's being gloriously deposed and they are all on this thread. A toast to you all, and may you spend the entire year in this unproductive state.

LOL. My thoughts exactly when I saw this thread.

[cynicom]

Re-read...What is name of first American president to pick the Senate majority leader.

[cynicom]

Thane...

Perhaps the separations of power have been nullified by Bush?????

[cynicom]

The ringing applause after that "historic" speech by Bush, was the democrats applauding and cheering him on. Course many republican apologists were also on board with the democrat socialists, exultating at the ritual cleansing.

[Fzob]

Am I the only one troubled by this Republican unconditional surrender to an obviously phony charge?

The only thing I am troubled about is the unconditional surrender of and by Lott. He caused this mess and then made it 100 times worse by going on an apology tour, when he should of stood up like he had a backbone and told the morons claiming he and the Republican are the party of racists to go pound sand.

It only proved to me once again why Lott was unfit to be Majority or Minority leader.