Posted on 12/09/2002 6:13:30 PM PST by M 91 u2 K
And if he doesn't apologize...then he looks like an arrogant a**hole who has very little reason to be that arrogant.
He's just got to step down from the Majority Leader slot, or get pushed down. One of the two.
Why are you calling for this man's head because he made a simple mistake? Attitudes like yours is one of reasons the Republicans have not been more successful at the polls, they tend to eat their own.
The title of the thread is Trent Lott Needs to Apologize Profusely and Quick, Or Step Down.
I agree.
I haven't heard the little apology...much less the profuse one
Yes, Trent Lott should apologize for his remark, but maybe someone should ask Clinton to apologize for a very similar remark that he was quoted as making in a book by Lani Guinier. Clinton supposedly said to a group of good old boy southerners, that we wouldn't be having all this trouble if we hadn't lost the war (Civil).
This wasn't a simple mistake. He said that America would have been better off had Jim Crow become the law of the entire land in 1949. Now I don't think he was trying to say that--but he DID say that.
Attitudes like yours is one of reasons the Republicans have not been more successful at the polls, they tend to eat their own.
No, our failure is due to out tolerating people who are too stupid to figure out how to pour urine from a boot if you told them the instructions were printed in the heel.
I'm not so sure. Though I do not care for Senator Lott's lack of spine in many respects, he could easily have made this comment in view of Senator Thurmond's eventual morphing into a Civil Rights advocate. We should be asking ourselves whether, on the face of it, a victory for Thurmond back then would really have been better for the country in the long haul. Kind of hard to second guess history. Even worse to be kicking ourselves and others in the ass for birthday party verbiage.
Assuming for a moment that he was not talking about segregation when he expressed his wish that Strom had won (I think that he was actually talking about other policies of Strom's, since I don't think that Lott is a closet segregationist...and he was also being nice to an old guy on his retirement)....for what does he have to apologize? If professional "victims" out there (Jesse Jackson, etc) assumed that he meant segregation, that is their problem.
If he does apologize, he would not be apologizing for anything that he actually meant to do....but would rather be apologizing as an act of submission to the taboos of the liberals.
It is just this sort of behavior that has given us the rampant political correctness that dominates our culture today. The only way to defeat a taboo is to publically flaunt it...thus disempowering it.
You're right.
I've had my say.
That's the way I see it too.
I just think an apology and clearing the record, briefly and without groveling would be the way to go. Pull a few ties out from under that algore/sharpton/jackson express.
JMO.
This is just the sort of mindless, guilt-ridden RINO stuff that has always plagued conservativism. He clearly did not mean to applaud segregation (he was being nice to an old guy on his retirement day)...so for what does he have to apologize? The libs want him to grovel so as to reinforce their PC taboos and to humiliate him (and, by association, us).
I've lost count of the number of times I've heard black leaders (Jackson, Sharpton, etc) speak about whites in ways that I find offensive. Do you think they'd ever consider apologizing? No way.
The blacks are willing inmates of the liberal welfare plantation. They don't vote for us. We owe them nothing.
According to Fox News, he got 39 electoral votes.
No, it's called not imitating Bill Clinton's defenders.
He clearly did not mean to applaud segregation (he was being nice to an old guy on his retirement day)...so for what does he have to apologize?
Sorry, but his words are pretty clear, unless you're going to quibble over the meaning of "is."
The question is a valid one: is Lott a segregationist, or just a plain idiot?
Either way, he has a moral obligation to the GOP to step down from his leadership post, because he is not fit to lead.
The blacks are willing inmates of the liberal welfare plantation. They don't vote for us. We owe them nothing.
We owe all of the American public a moral example.
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