Posted on 01/02/2003 5:26:21 PM PST by TLBSHOW
The panic that the Democrats face is real for a number of reasons. This kind of stuff makes me not worry so much about the Lott situation. What worries me more about that is not what the Democrats are saying, but what it's causing amongst the Republican and conservative ranks.
The Lott situation was, and may or may not still be, on the brink of causing a deep fissure in conservative circles. A whole lot of people on our side saw self-serving grandstanding by certain elements of the conservative movement. The notion that it was never about Lott, but rather about tarring every Republican and conservative as a Ku Klux Klansman in the Robert Byrd mold, was not recognized immediately by as many people as it should have been.
I predicted the situation would play out this way, and I was right yet again. This attempt to fan flames of racial strife is the root of Congressman Charles Rangel's proposal to bring back the draft. The left likes to say that only poor minorities fight our wars, and Rangel figures that a call for the draft will get people worked up against liberating Iraq and denying Al-Qaeda a nuclear ally in Saddam Hussein. They're going to extend unemployment compensation as well, in an attempt to say everything is miserable.
The Wall Street Journal has run pieces on the Bush administration scaling back the tax cuts – more of the same motivation there. Democrats like Warren Christopher are writing columns saying that our great nation can't focus on North Korea and Iraq at once. Meanwhile, the first hit piece on Dr. Bill Frist has come out. All these people know how to do is demonize. It's literally amazing. In the context of the Democrats trying to figure out how they can replicate what's happened here on the EIB Network, this attack is even more enjoyable.
Really! You have inside knowledge of this?
Why at the first press conference I referred to Lott himself announced that the president of BET called him personally as he hails from Mississippi and they know each other and Lott said he made the decision to appear.
You, of course, are just making up your assertion out of bitterness.
Misspoke? No, he didn't misspeak. And I understood exactly what he was saying and how he felt about Sen. Frank's "lifestyle choice."
Misspeaking would be, for instance, "Solomon Barney Frank."
I guess I am naive. I think Sen. Lott was a segregationist. I think it's part of his past. He grew up with it, fought for it, then accepted desegregation.
But I admit I'm satisfied in my naivety.
I seldom make remarks like this, but the circumstances here give me the feeling that maybe the Good Lord was watching out for Frist.
I propose that we begin referring to the race card here, every time, as " The Liberal Race Card ® ", it being the only hope they have to defeat us.
Adding the ® underscores that it's their invention...
Who's your candidate? Hillary?
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