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.
My favorite call today was the guy fr LA lampooning Bill Press when he had a talk show in LAA-LAA land.
Actually, this was recognized, thus dealt with. Had Lott stepped aside as Leader at his first press conference he could have spared his reputation a bit.
Meanwhile, the first hit piece on Dr. Bill Frist has come out. All these people know how to do is demonize.
The hit piece came out, but as fate would have it, tragedy struck in Florida and Dr. Frist was able to lend assistance. The family that is suffering was spared further devastation thanks to the incoming Majority Leader and the hit piece is for naught.
And admitted he was a racist when he wasn't?
How would that have helped his reputation? He should have told the race pimps to stuff it up their ample asses, and told the long-knived conservatives that he was not going to step down. Period.
One of us is confused.
It was clear by his first press conference that his continuing presence as leader in the Senate was not going to be an asset to the republicans. A simple statement that his continuation in the role would only serve as a distraction would have sufficed.
How would that have helped his reputation?
Why one would hope he would not have made his disastrous appearance on BET, and thus salvaged whatever lingering respect amongst his supporters was left. More than one Lott staffer and supporter has acknowledged that interview was not helpful.
How would that have helped his reputation? He should have told the race pimps to stuff it up their ample asses, and told the long-knived conservatives that he was not going to step down. Period.
Bingo. Bump to the top. (But, alas. No one is listening in the "new, more moderate Republican Party." They are too busy meeting with Al Sharpton planning more concessions.)
Did you approve of Dick Armey's comments, labelling Barney Frank "Barney Fag"? No, but you understood that he simply misspoke. Lott has a habit of going overboard on Thurmond when he's in his presence, and I don't think it has anything to do with approving of segregation. Lott's voting record certainly isn't segregationist.
So, he's not SML, he's still one of us, and no one has called him a racist.
You're not that naive. No one, liberal or conservative thinks Lott is anything but a hood-wearing, segregationist-favoring racist. That's what forcing him out of the SML position meant, and everybody knows it but you.
"The timing of this accident is no coincidence!! What do Bush and Frist know about this accident, and when did they know it?"
On second thought, since the vehicle was an SUV, it's possible the SUV crashed itself in order to help its Republican patrons. Would this be a violation of campaign finance reform, if it were a conspiracy between Frist, Bush and the SUV?
Hillary and McCain should really demand an investigation.
I'd better shut up now - don't want to give 'em any ideas.
Common sense?
Did you know Lott was referring to Dixiecrats and segregation when he made those remarks or were you informed of that by somebody else? I would hazard a guess that 99.5% of Americans would not have added Lott's remarks together and come up with Dixiecrat/segregationist absent Sidney and Carville's push in that direction.
Not one person in attendance at that affair took umbrage at the remarks contemperaneously including loads of journalists, including Armstrong Williams, and members of both parties.
But here is the kicker for me, why would Lott go on National TV with a coterie of media jackals in attendance and declare his undying love of American apartheid?
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