[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.

[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.

[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.

[hinckley buzzard]

"Can anyone name the last democrat tosssed by his teammates....?"

Yeah. James Traficant.

They didn't have to toss Gary Condit because the voters did it for them.

Congressman Tony Coelho quietly "retired" from Congress rather than face charges of fraud and corruption and certain conviction.

In 1972 Goerge McGovern dumped his Vice-Presidential running mate Senator Tom Eagleton of Missouri when it came to light he had been treated in the past for bipolar disorder.


A few years before that, there was Senator Tom Dodd, father of the current sleazebag Chris, who was censured and essentially cashiered by his own party for massive corruption.

Then there was the drunken Ways and Means Chair, Wilbur Mills, who was dumped after his frolics in the mall Fountain with stripper Fannie Foxe.

Regardless, the fact is that ignorant and misleading defenses of the indefensible Lott by the likes of this Faber kid are an insult to the intelligence of the populace.

The Conservative forces of the Republican Party did the right thing. They stood up and said, "We can't read minds, but we know what we hear, and we are no longer going to tolerate this kind of crap from our own people."

Did it make political sense? The speech by Bush, in which he disavowed Lott's bigotry, was the most powerful opportunity for Republicans to speak to African-Americans in a long time. And it was a home run.

Besides, there is the matter of integrity--do the right thing because it is the right thing to do-- regardless of whether or not your foes demand it.

Lott's comments were not "winging it" or off-the-cuff. They were written notes and had been used before. He believed them, he meant them, and he thereby proved himself unworthy to lead the GOP in the Senate.

[cynicom]

One has to love the Bush apologists, they so much resemble the Clinton apologists. Kneepads on, ready to apologize at anytime for any thing. I have to wonder why they come here on a conservative forum.

[StriperSniper]

every Republican candidate in 2004 will face TV commercials beginning with Trent Lott's endorsement of Strom Thurmond followed by footage of Dixiecrat Thurmond in 1948 blatantly appealing for segregation."

I'm sure they are already made, and waiting to go.

[Beenliedto]

The Republican Party just turned and ran from what they feared would be dreadful political trouble down the road.

The Republican Party did exactly what George wanted....

And now George's man is Majority Leader.

[.30Carbine]

Dogs aren't the only ones who smell fear. We all do. The beautiful woman smells the fear of the nervous nerd asking for a date. The boss smells the fear of the insecure worker asking for a raise. And the voter smells the fear of a political party – even one controlling all three branches of government – that so quickly sacrifices a leader who did NOT mis-think, who did NOT mis-act, but who merely mis-SPOKE.

I really like this article and I thank you for posting it.

[wardaddy]

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

No.

[Walkin Man]

Now the race baiters not only rule the demoRat party but the Republican Party as well. Watch what you say Republicans, search every speech, word by word so you will be sure not to offend Jessie Jackson, Al Sharpton, and Hillary Clinton! Woe to you if you make a mistake, for you will have commited a thought crime and your fellow Republicans will be the first to stick their knives into your back!

[jwalsh07]

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

Nope. Lott was simply a down payment.

[.30Carbine]

Info on the author:

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Barry Farber has had an incredible career. Before leaving college Barry had been an editor of a daily newspaper, a wrestler, a steel worker, a representative of American college students in Yugoslavia and Brazil, an interpreter for units of the Chinese Nationalist Navy, and a Phi Beta Kappa student. All before leaving college.

Since then, Barry's news coverage has taken him in and out of trouble spots all over the world: He led Hungarians across the border after their revolution and sped to Cuba after the fall of Batista, beating Fidel Castro to Havana by five days! Barry reported on the repression of Soviet Jews from the Moscow synagogue beginning in 1956.

In 1991, Barry's nationally syndicated radio show won him the title of "Talk Show Host of the Year." His numerous articles have appeared in the New York Times, Reader's Digest, the Washington Post, and the Saturday Review, to name a few.

[Salvation]

**One problem. Trent Lott is NOT a racist.**

And the Republicans will be sorry that Frist is acting in Lott's place. Give it time. We won't like it. I promise.

[gitmo]

So, already by Christmas the Republicans took their newly revealed "racist" Trent Lott and chopped him off like a hood ornament and left him folded up in the glove compartment like a paper napkin full of forgotten fruitcake.

Instead of a political army guided by courage and conviction, we now see the Republicans as a nudist in the middle of a barbed-wire fence.

This guy must have an odd life.

[okie01]

No. Trent Lott isn't a "racist". But, in front of the cameras, for the benefit of history, he said something that, on its surface, could not be interpreted as anything other than "racist" and deeply regressive.

He did this all by himself. Nobody made him do it. It was, solely, Trent Lott's fault. Nobody else's.

Y'know, Trent Lott was an inept Minority Leader. And an even more inept Majority Leader.

He was prone to saying dumb things. This was neither the first, nor would it be the last (as evidenced by his pitiful performance on BET).

As such, Lott constantly cost the party energy and embarrassment -- which could have been better spent on moving the ball forward, rather than having to drop back and protect his ass. Over and over.

Had Lott been an effective leader and a positive contributor to the party's legislative program, he would have been defended for what would have been perceived as a momentary lapse of mis-speaking.

As it was, Lott's fumble, his inability to recover and the liberal media attack on Lott offered the party (and its conservatives) the opportunity to rid itself of what had become a demonstrable burden.

In effect, the libs did us a favor. The Majority Leadership is now in stronger hands. And Lott is consigned to where he can help, with his reliable conservative vote, but can't any longer hurt, with his perpetual fumbling.

Thus, the Republican Party and the Conservative Movement is in better shape today than it was a month ago.

All of which leaves me to wonder: Why are you investing so much energy in Trent Lott's defense? His record simply doesn't warrant it.