[TLBSHOW]

The consequences of this rout of the Republicans, due to their own cowardice, are going to be sweeping.

The liberal establishment has the bit in its teeth. All the momentum of November is gone. Republicans are going to be made to apologize for their past racist sins, to grovel before the inquisition, to abandon any and all plans to block the "civil rights" agenda of Sharpton, Jackson, Daschle and Gore. They will be told to drop any thought of nominating conservative Southern judges to U.S. courts. All efforts to overturn affirmative action – i.e., reverse discrimination – are almost surely now dead. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/811053/posts?page=88#88

[M. Thatcher]

The consequences of this rout of the Republicans, due to their own cowardice, are going to be sweeping. The liberal establishment has the bit in its teeth. All the momentum of November is gone. Republicans are going to be made to apologize for their past racist sins, to grovel before the inquisition, to abandon any and all plans to block the "civil rights" agenda of Sharpton, Jackson, Daschle and Gore. They will be told to drop any thought of nominating conservative Southern judges to U.S. courts. All efforts to overturn affirmative action – i.e., reverse discrimination – are almost surely now dead.

On the contrary: the putrid Lott boil has been lanced, and the party can recover. The Democrat attacks you cite will now be repelled. Lott, being poisonous, hampered the immune system.

Try optimism. With the odious Trent Lott gone, optimism is no longer irrational.

[Puddleglum]

Well, I agree that the Dems have done their best to throw water on the fire that was the November elections, but I don't think that fire's dead. I think a lot of people in the USA have had their own lives affected by the various divisive litmus tests that pass for equality among the Dems. I am optimistic that there is a powerful, pragmatic and broadly-appealing counterpunch to be thrown should the Dems reach too far, which of course they will. You cannot counter segregation by segregating our society into a multitiude of interest groups and getting some egghead sociologist to decide which derserve more benefits, civil liberties, etc than the others.

[maxter]

It ain't going to happen. The liberal establishment has overplayed their hand. Get ready. Things will get rolling now. Don't blink or you might miss one, as the items on the Republican agenda gets passed, one after another. It is a new day. Enjoy.

[Dave S]

They will be told to drop any thought of nominating conservative Southern judges to U.S. courts. All efforts to overturn affirmative action – i.e., reverse discrimination – are almost surely now dead

And you can thank your imbecilic, Cheerleader Lott for doing that. If he could either have kept his mouth shut or quickly dealt with his faux paux he would still be leader. As soon as Lott let this thing stew for four or five days because he wouldnt be bothered on this vacation, Pickering was dead and so was heavy Bush support for the University Of Michigan affirmative action case. Put the blame where it belongs. Squarely on Lott.