[dyed_in_the_wool]

I don't think you'll ever see trenchant idealism in the Senate.
Those people didn't get there by being principled. Not one of them.

[ImpBill]

Oh, this should be a fun thread.

Happy New Year.

[Fred Mertz]

Excellent!

[sheltonmac]

*PING*

[MileHi]

Nice article.

[xm177e2]

Neo-cons don't have an agenda? WTF? I thought we were criticized for wanting to do too much around the world.

[rooster1]

Yep! We just need a few good men with a pair of 'em to stand up and say "Enough is Enough", but I don't think any one like that is currently in office.

[billbears]

Bending to political peer pressure doesn't help —in fact, it makes you look weak

A hearty thank you. However I don't think you're going to get a lot of praise for saying something like that. We're a kinder gentler Republican party now. Selling out principles for power. By the time that power is gained the principles will be completely forgotten.

[sphinx]

Lott did himself in with his stumbling series of apologies. IMO, he needed to apologize ONCE for poorly chosen words -- which is what he more-or-less tried to do the first time -- and then, when the barrage didn't lift, go on the attack against Democrat race baiting. If 'ya just stand there like a punching bag, expect to get punched out. The best defense is a good offense, and the 'rats have been playing with fire on race for years.

[Fiddlstix]

Bump

[bewildered]

While I agree with you in principle, I think Trent Lott totally screwed this one up as well. His repeated apologies and lame excuses seemed to make it worse. If he would have just explained his comments once, as you did, then told everyone to shut the hell up it would have been better.

After reading Anne Coulter's editorial about Lott and Thurmond being converted Democrats, I began to question him as well. This is not the first time Lott has spouted off. Quoting a little from Ann's article which has other examples of Lott slip-ups...

Up until two weeks ago, conservatives were clamoring for Lott's removal precisely because of his annoying habit of saying dumb things. (Showing their inferior intellect, liberals have only recently figured that out.) Republicans should ask Lott to step down as leader, but only for all the nice things he's said about Teddy Kennedy.

While this may appear as another Republican cave-in, maybe many republicans figured it was a good time to get rid of some dead wood.

[Mr. K]

I made these same comments before (vacant)Lott gave up the fight.

As much as I wanted to see him gome (for being a spinelss jellyfish) I hated to see the liberals succeed in doing it this way. The man was branded a racists and hounded out of officee successfully by liberals. They will be emboldened to do it again.

Look what they are trying to do to Frist already. (Cat murderer, etc...)

[Luis Gonzalez]

The GOP is a party of cowards?

Well then, the just got rid of the head coward in Trent Lott.

Fully supports affirmative action?

I'm glad Trent quit before he got to do the Oprah show, and announced his support for reparations.

[Eastbound]

". . .Party of Cowards."

That would make the demrats the 'Party of Bullies,' the mildest appelation I can think of for that un-American, worse-than-criminal, puss-filled threat to the Republic, treasonous enterprise.

[dirtboy]

." And that, my friends, has become the battle cry of the neo-conservatives in the GOP, Party of Cowards.

Another whiny rant blaming the neocons. Quite frankly, Lott never gave conservatives any good reason to back him up, and then managed to careen madly across the political landscape, throwing supporters off his wagon as he backstabbed conservative values left and right in a futile effort to save his job at the expense of his party.

You sound like a liberal, blaming others instead of placing the blame firmly where it belongs - with Trent Lott himself.

[cynicom]

mac...

The resident, sanctimonious, self righteous, socialist republican partisan apologists are going to have you for lunch.

[Consort]

The cowards are the weak GOP voters who would support Lott over the party when Lott fell on his own sword and deserved to be replaced. He energized the Dems when they were in disarray. Regardless of how good or bad Frist performs, Lott had to step down.

[11th Earl of Mar]

The GOP are cowards for not throwing Lott out years ago, and doing it on principle. Instead we removed him over his own stupidity and his inability to keep himself out of trouble.

But in the end, we did the right thing when given the chance.

And he bottom line is that with Lott gone, the GOP is better for it.

[Triple]

I think that Lott's dismissal was one of the few signs of strength in the GOP.

He needed to go, because he was willing to sell out the conservative cause to retain his seat. (BET interview - affirmative action)

Perhaps, without Lott, the spineless imbecile, as majority leader, the GOP will steer a course closer to conservatism. With him as leader there was no chance of forwarding conservative principles.

Lee, I rarely disagree with you, but on this one; I totally disagree.

Sometimes, the politically correct thing is, coincidentally, the right thing to do.

[RaceBannon]

I am no neo-con, who is this loser to defend the character of Loser Lott??

Thanks to Lott's spine missing, we have democrat ideas all over the place, and an impeached president let off scott free.