The GOP, Party of Cowards

Ever Vigilant ^ | 12/23/2003 | Lee R. Shelton IV

[hchutch]

But a lot of folks could interpret his comments to mean otherwise - and quotes are in the ey of the beholder.

Trent Lott was dumb enough to give the left a target and he had enough that could make the race card stick. There's enough there that it could stick. Sorry to burst your bubble, but Lott was indefensible.

Now, I have high regard for Ann Coulter, but as her book Slander makes clear (A book I have read, by the way), the media (outside of Fox News and the Washington Times) will target our guys for the slightest slip-up without any regard for the truth.

On the other hand, Frist just made the headlines, too, in case you haven't noticed. Let me tell you something - the average person is going to note two things:

1. We took action against someone who made REPEATED comments that could reasonably be interpreted as saying a segregationist should have been elected in 1948. We replaced him.

2. The guy who replaced him just made the headlines - for assisting the victims of a nasty wreck. He helped to save four of the six victims. And attacking him is going to make the Dems look HORRIBLE.

We know the left and the media will slander/libel our guys if they can. It's better to have folks who will be very hard to have it stick. The best option is to have someone who will be of such charcter (as Frist is) that the attacks are SEEN by the people as slander/libel.

[Luis Gonzalez]

"Just think of Barney Frank..."

Yep...Barney has bent over for many in his day.

[dogbyte12]

TLB... do a two word google search. Meese Commission. Your prayers will be answered.

[deport]

As the Ann Coulter said, Trent never said that we should have elected a segregationist as President

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Very true..... but it matters not one whit what Ann says but rather this entire thing is about what Trent said. Ann has nothing to do with it, other than in your mind.

Lott said: "I want to say this about my state, when Strom Thurmond ran for president, we voted for him. We're proud of it, and if the rest of the country had followed our lead, we wouldn't have had all these problems over all these years either."

Lott's said in re his remarks: "A poor choice of words conveyed to some the impression that I embraced the discarded policies of the past. Nothing could be further from the truth, and I apologize to anyone who was offended by my statement.''

So Lott admits he used words that were of a poor choice and conveyed an impression that he embraced the policies of the past. Preception is what gets people in trouble and Lott never was able to turn that around.

[FreeReign]

A lose-lose situation Wouldn't it be refreshing if our officials in Washington had the courage to admit what most voters have long figured out - that making goods cheaply in developing countries hasn't done much to raise the standard of living for most foreign workers, nor has it turned them into consumers of American products. Rather, in too many instances, global trade has meant soaring unemployment for low-skilled Americans who can least afford to lose their jobs. Glenn Burkins Charlotte Observer August 12, 2002

Unemployment for all Americans has remained relatively flat, while the costs of manufactured items to the consumer has gone down.

[cynicom]

ALL....

When the dems/media take after Frist (and they will), I wonder if republicans will want conservatives to join in the Frist defense?????

[ImpBill]

"Yeah, and the Republicans stink to high heaven."

Isn't it interesting that I can agree with you on this premise, but totally disagree with your methond of having arrived at it. I think they started airing their fowl ordor when through the Lott leadership they first caved on the Xlinton Impeachment trial and then with the power sharing arrangement with D'Aschole.

I left party membership because of Lott and his supporters long ago and could care less what brought him down. Just glad to see him gone. Hoping they might return to being a party of "principled" conservative leadership again, but I am not holding my breath.

[Mark17]

look how many voted for GOP candidates in the 2002 elections, in defiance of historical patterns of the party holding the White House losing ground in midterm elections.

Yes that did happen, but wasn't it the 98 elections, where slick Willie was in power, and the demon rats also gained seats instead of losing them?

[Luis Gonzalez]

Lott spent the better part of the past ten years administering CPR to the Democrats.

The impeachment (I had actually given Trent a pass on that, convinced that it was a smart political move), the power-sharing scheme, his failure to maintain control of the Senate Republicans with Jefford's switch, and now, a remark so idiotic that it singlehandedly revitalized a demoralized, disjointed Democratic Party.

If you don't demote Generals for losing battle after battle, and constantly giving ground to the enemy, what do you demote them for?

[Mark17]

And attacking him is going to make the Dems look HORRIBLE.

Aren't the Rats already trying to demonize Frist for the treatment of animals while in Med School?

[TLBSHOW]

I wonder if republicans will want conservatives to join in the Frist defense?????

Frist is the leader and if the rats attack him I will defend him too but will the GOP?

[F.J. Mitchell]

All true, every word. Our November victory will be nothing more than an identical clone to a mud fence ugly demogogaRAT sweep if Bill Frist is more moderate (liberalese for flaming liberal) than Trent Lott.

[Joe Hadenuf]

Enter Johnny One-note.

And I might add, beware of liberal, anti-American leftist and racist, dressed as conservatives.

[Luis Gonzalez]

"I wonder if republicans will want conservatives to join in the Frist defense?"

I love that.

It's the rant du jour of the lunatic fringe. Suggesting that Republicans are not conservatives.

Here's the deal cy: While all conservatives are not Republicans, all Republicans are conservatives.

[Luis Gonzalez]

Playing the race card Joe?

[Luis Gonzalez]

Feeling enpowered by the Dems these days?

[cynicom]

TLB...

Dems are aready salivating from the mouth over Frist. The Frist family is worth about a billion bucks from HCA 25 per cent holdings. HCA stole about a billion from Medicare, now you know the dems are going to ride that horse to death.

[hchutch]

Haven't heard anything but rumors on that... but I have seen the headlines of how he assisted in that accident in Florida - and in the next day or two it's going to show up in other papers as well. That is the key - yeah, you'll get the slamming from the Left over anything they can dig up.

But Frist, unlike Lott, has quite a few markers as well. The man got results as head of the NRSC. He's going to have a decent-sized amount of goodwill as a result of his actions down in Florida. Lott did not have much goodwill banked away for his final screw-up as Majority Leader.

[Coleus]

What made Ronald Reagan a great president was that he was NOT afraid of the press and didn't govern by polls. We will never see a repbulican like him again. Can you imagine any republican in office today going to the Iron Curtain and telling Gorby to tear it down?

I lost respect for Lott when he refused to go after Clinton after Clinton was Impeached. It was up to Lott and the Senate to have Clinton removed from office.

George Bush and Trent Lott APPROVED the appointing of 5 PRO-ABORTION judges in NJ. Bush no more in 2004!

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[KeyBored]

"I'm looking for a Political Party with the principles the Republicans claim to have and the balls the Democrats actually have."

Principles? Better call Starfleet, 'cause that particular party doesn't exist on THIS planet.