Posted on 12/09/2002 6:13:30 PM PST by M 91 u2 K
I agree.
Daschle is the only person who called it a mistake and just completely blew it off. I was floored. Maybe he did it for the wrong reason, but he did it all the same.
I even suggested sending Tom Daschle a Thank YOU Note
Cut him out and draw a distinction between him and gore, sharpton, jackson, et al.
You're right. It's just incredibly dumb.
From a guy whose position of responsibility is supposedly for the non-dumb...
Because he said, whether or not he meant to, that America would have been better off if Jim Crow had been enshrined as a national policy (that WAS the Dixiecrat platform), instead of being done away with.
It makes me ask what his strategy is. Whatever it is, it intends to do the GOP no good.
We cannot use the "well look what Democrats do" defense--it's the same method the Clintons employed and are justly despised for.
No, no, no. You (and Eddie) are misunderstanding me. He expends incredible energy dispelling any notion of racism. Goes far and away to explain every, single little nuance. Above and beyond what most of us would just ignore as stuff so silly as to be unworthy of comment.
My take has always been that he's easy to embarrass on racial issues, maybe because of his liberal past or something.
Just my opinion.
Actually, most of the attacks on Lott have come from Republicans. Jesse, Al, and Al came late to the party.
Agreed, if Lot steps down because of this then the dems will have made their point that his comments were wrong and they'll paint all other Republicans as racists. The best defense is to keep calling liberals kooks when they bring this up.
I heard the remark. It was a Southern Senator getting carried away in a tribute to an old man.
He should apologize, but he should not step down as Majority Leader.
Some FR posters have gone from the historical to the hysterical.
We have to have the courage to do what the Democrats didn't do in 1998.
Ahh, he knows he's viewed as a mean little obstructionist twerp and he helped lose them the Senate. I mean, talk about Newt? Daschle shut down government as effectively as Newt ever did. He polls below Sharpton. People hate him and he knows it..
I have no doubt he did the right thing for the wrong reason, but he did do it. While algor, Jessie Jackson, Al Sharpton (and whoever else boards this train) are running around calling him a racist who should resign Tom just called it a mistake and blew it off like no ones business.
He was nicer to Trent than Britt Hume's entire panel and he was honest. For the first time I actually agreed with him on something political.
Actually, Jesse, and Al started the party.
The attacks today have come from FReepers who are nursing a grudge against Lott from impeachment.
A truly reprehensible reason to give the Democrats a scalp after Nov. 5.
It most certainly is. My criticisms of the civil rights movement aside, this is about power. Political correctness exerts its power by creating a variety of "thought crimes" around which everyone must tiptoe or suffer the most extreme consequences. Every time someone (usually an unsuspecting white male) expresses a taboo thought, he must grovel at the feet of the libs or be destroyed. This further empowers the beneficiaries of the taboos (libs and their minority lackeys) by demonstrating to everyone else the horrible price to be paid for thought crime.
Right now, he merely looks like either a mild racist or a foot-in-mouth idiot. If he apologizes, he will look like a groveling mild racist or a groveling foot-in-mouth idiot.
On the other hand, if he blows off the criticism and says nothing, he will land a blow against political correctness. This is because a public flaunting of the taboos--and getting away with the public flaunting--disempowers the libs by demonstrating to everyone that the taboo has no power.
This is the way to crack the berlin wall of PC thought police.
His comments were wrong and if we go the Clintonian everybody does it route, we are giving them the both paint and the brush.
Let him go. (as Leader)
We've been wanting him to step down anyway so why look this gift horse in the mouth?
This is not the hill I would pick to die on.
I think he should apologize.. But not grovel.
My gosh, it's a simple mistake from 1948. It slipped my mind and I bet pretty much everyone elses till we were reminded of it.
If he should go it's because he's inept, not for being a racist.
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