Posted on 12/14/2002 9:14:34 AM PST by Tumbleweed_Connection
1. 1964 Civil Rights Act was passed with Republican support, almost filibustered by Leftists. Gore’s father was one of those who was vehemently against it yet they escape judgment on their actions. It was passed against their vote.
2. If the same type of things were said/written about Byrd... how would the Leftists react? Why are you... selectively choosing our "candidate"?
3. Congress has worked with Lott for decades, why haven't they been exposed to consistent racial characteristics by Lott in the past?
4. Why has Thurmond remained silent?
5. What effects do Welfare and education have on segregation and racism? Until recent years which party has implemented reform on each? How did Lott vote?
6. Anyone recall Kennedy's one way conversations with ML King? When does it come time to "cleanse" for that?
7. Which party is being "cleansed"? How many of you... truly don't believe Lexus searches were run throughout last week? How far back was too far back during the Clinton administration? As many in our who were victims, what did the Leftists gain? What does it say to you... about today?
8. If you... are going to allow the Leftists (who assert they are free of segregation and racism) to publicly assault our party without demanding they look in their own mirror, what have you... accomplished?
I agree. He is damaged goods, and a weak leader.
The recent runoff in LA was won because of black votor turnout. That put them over the edge. With Lott in charge of the Senate, this will happen on a national scale 2 years from now.
The dems know this. They will tar him as much as they can, even censure him, but don't really want him to step down. They need a demon to inflame the emotions of their moronic followers come the next election.
Their handlers freely admitted they had nobody to demonize last election; not since Newt resigned. Heck, they still tried to bring up Newt during the races.
Lott will single-handedly ensure the election of rats next election, if he does not step down.
As far as his FBI file in rat databases, the ex-male cheerleader from Mississippi State supposedly has a college skeleton in his closet. If true, my guess is that the rats are threatening to release this info if he resigns the leadership, but not from the Senate.
The rats win if he stays as ML, or if he resigns from the Senate. The pubs win if he resigns the leadership, but stays in the Senate. I say I don't care if pubs lose the senate, this guy should be gone. He sucks.
Though I crawled over broken glass to vote straight pubbie last election, I left the pubbie party when Lott caved on the CWB treaty. I despise him as a so-called leader.
These are the politicians who are making the decisions for you. They are granting Johnson, Sharpton, Jackson, the media... as well as themselves free passes, clue me in and tell me why you think that would ever change. Tell me what legislation Lott has supported which puts him on their side of the fence?
Its a net gain for the democrats.
Try Again.
Demanding that Lott resign his leadership position in humiliation, accept the brand of racist, and then take a seat in the back row of the Senate chamber IS a political crucifixion.
Can you name one politician who would do this?
Give this some time to play out. Who knows what family pressures may make demands on Lott's time six months from now.
Absolutely true.
A higher percentage of Senate Republicans voted for it than Democrats.
Goldwater was one of the few notable exceptions.
2. If the same type of things were said/written about Byrd... how would the Leftists react? Why are you... selectively choosing our "candidate"?
They'd shrug it off. There's a clear double standard.
Aren't we better than that?
3. Congress has worked with Lott for decades, why haven't they been exposed to consistent racial characteristics by Lott in the past?
What makes you think they haven't?
4. Why has Thurmond remained silent?
Good question. He hasn't attacked Lott - and he hasn't defended him either.
5. What effects do Welfare and education have on segregation and racism? Until recent years which party has implemented reform on each? How did Lott vote?
Baleful. The pachyderms. Tolerably.
Of course, in 1982, Lott voted against the extension of the Voting Rights Act, which authorizes the Justice Department to review election law changes in Mississippi and other Deep South states and to monitor elections.
In 1983, he was one of 90 House members who voted against creating a national holiday to honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Six years later, Lott was one of seven senators who voted to abolish the King holiday commission, and in 1994, he was one of 28 who favored scrapping its federal funding.
And in 2001, Lott was the only senator who opposed President George W. Bush's nomination of Roger Gregory, an African-American from Virginia, to the Fourth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
It may not be a racist pattern, but it certainly is a...curious one. Especially when you add in the rest of his record.
6. Anyone recall Kennedy's one way conversations with ML King? When does it come time to "cleanse" for that?
Good question.
Meanwhile, we have to "cleanse" for something one of our guys did last week.
7. Which party is being "cleansed"? How many of you... truly don't believe Lexus searches were run throughout last week? How far back was too far back during the Clinton administration? As many in our who were victims, what did the Leftists gain? What does it say to you... about today?
I don't mind the usual leftist lies and lunges.
I do mind giving them prime material like this to work with.
8. If you... are going to allow the Leftists (who assert they are free of segregation and racism) to publicly assault our party without demanding they look in their own mirror, what have you... accomplished?
That's an insufficient reason to keep supporting someone as utterly tone deaf on race relations and politically obtuse as Trent Lott.
We will lose more by keeping him at the top than we will by getting him to step down.
If Trent had a sense of honor and loyalty he would resign his leadership post.
It seems he thinks otherwise.
As Steven Hates put it in the Weekly Standard this week:
"Asking for forgiveness is reasonable--everyone makes mistakes. But wanting to do so and remain leader is not. The controversy is no longer just about Trent Lott. It's about the Republican party. Despite what Democrats would like to suggest, this is not because most or even many Republicans are secretly nostalgic for segregation. They aren't. Rather, it's because Lott failed to deal swiftly and seriously with the substance of his original comment. And it's because Republican officeholders, however understandable their instinct for self-preservation, failed to speak out strongly against one of their own on a matter of principle.
"What's clear is this: The more Trent Lott speaks as the third-ranking Republican in America, the more his problem becomes the party's problem. "I want the Republican party not to be hurt by this," Lott said Friday. "I want us to find a way to reach out and to build on our mistakes that we have made in the past." Us to find a way? Our mistakes? We have made?
""I'm not about to resign for an accusation for something I'm not," Lott declared, responding to accusations that he is racist.
"Perhaps he would consider stepping down for something he has become: a burden for his party."
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