Posted on 12/11/2002 3:03:47 PM PST by Ragtime Cowgirl
Again, I say to those who are in a panic over a statement that I agree with, that is that it would have been good for America if Strom Thurmond had been elected President, "Get over it. You have nothing to gain by dancing to the Left's tune. Nothing! Six months from now, no one will respect you for it. Nothing of any value can possibly be gained by it. Get over it!"
And see Creating Hate In America Today, to see more evidence of the Left's game plan in this.
William Flax
You got that right. He would have blown the mid-term elections for Republicans for sure.
Just when blacks seemed to be catching on that the Dems have just been using them...Lott goes and gives Dems this opportunity to demogogue Republicans as racists again.
After the election, Rush spoke of how W. stayed up four hours past his bedtime waiting for results while Lott kept trying to leave so he could get home to bed. The very idea that he wouldn't hang around with his boss while the future of his own job was being decided was beyond belief.
The confidence in his voice as he made his Thurmond comments reflects his own egotism and misconception that he can do no wrong. Loss of the leadership position would be just desserts to the guy who was almost single-handedly resopnsible for the 2001 shift to the Dems. (After all, given the style differences between Lott and Jeffords, can you imagine them getting along for years in that quartet? I can see how someone like Jeffords would be totally peeved with someone like Lott and exiting at a critical moment would have been Lott-revenge more than anything else.)
Strom Thurmond says he was wrong. Holy crap! Some people on this site stun me.
Thurmond: "All the laws of Washington and all the bayonets of the Army cannot force the Negro into our homes, our schools, our churches."
The Dixiecrat Party platform: "The negro is a native of tropical climate where fruits and nuts are plentiful and where clothing is not required for protection against the weather ... The essentials of society in the jungle are few and do not include the production, transportation and marketing of goods. [Thus] his racial constitution has been fashioned to exclude any idea of voluntary cooperation on his part." "We stand for the segregation of the races and the racial integrity of each race."
The Dixiecrat Ballot:[A vote for Truman is a vote in suppport of Truman's civil rights program]...This means the vicious FEPC--anti-poll tax-- anti-lynching and anti-segregation proposals will become the law of the land and our way of life in the South will be gone forever."
That you would try to defend this sickens me.
Segregation never even entered his mind.
If this is true then why didn't Lott have half the brain to explain this was what he was really talking about?
Worse yet, why did he apologize for it, calling it a "terrible" thing to say..that he "regrets" it etc. etc.
What's wrong with "Pro States Rights position and dedication to the Constitution" that Lott should apologize for it, or try to avoid admitting that is what he meant?
I heard Lott offer alternate explanations on Hannity today of what he meant by "all these problems", and none of them included anything you refer to above.
Secondly, do you support the idea of an FEPC law? It is a highly Socialistic idea. (See "Civil Rights" vs. A Free Society.) Instead of getting sick, why don't you see what you are endorsing and be certain that you really want to be endorsing it.
As for the anti-lynch law that Truman had advocated. The South considered that insulting. They already had local laws on the subject, and they were being enforced. Unfortunately, I do not have the statistics handy, perhaps you do, but was any one lynched in South Carolina while Strom Thurmond was Governor? He was not advocating lynching, just opposing dictation from Washington. That is quite a different thing.
Personally, as a school boy in 1948, I was an enthusiastic supporter of Harry Truman and his Civil Rights proposals. It was only as I grew up over the next few years that I realized that I had bought a proverbial "pig- in-a-poke"; that the issue was not fairness, at all, but one of the allocation of power and control.
You can certainly disagree. But to want to crucify Lott because he agrees with the Southern view of the time is the sort of ludicrous thought control that really should sicken any Conservative.
William Flax
Trent needs to step down from his leadership position, but not from the Senate.
The racial divide in our country has been carefully cultivated by the left for decades. If the mainstream media won't hold "Rev." Jesse Jackson accountable for his hypocrisy, extortion, campaigning for America's enemies in Brazil, inciting riots in Florida, etc., we will not get a fair hearing now...except on alternative news sites. It's too distracting, divisive and BIG to deal with now. We'd have to examine the billion dollar industry of black victimization - including our new revisionist history schools, the truth about the far left NAACP, the socialist Congressional Black Caucus, the real story of slavery in America and who actually fought to free the slaves (Republicans and Christians first)...all un-PC, counter the leftist propaganda Americans were fed for years.
In a fair world we could simply present the evidence and ask for an apology from the left for the years of slanderous attacts. Black Americans and the press would register Republican and Jesse Jackson would stop calling himself a Reverend and pray for forgiveness from God...ah, but this comment makes me a "racist" in modern America...and, thanks to modern telecommunication and transportation...the left can assemble an international group of "outraged" celebrities to fill the airwaves with anti-Republican rhetoric - not just from sea to shining sea, but from Montezuma to Tripoli.
The UN conference on racism featured Jesse Jackson denouncing the USA - especially George Bush and the Republican party (AP, BBC and the international press reported extensively on "racist Republicans" in Florida during the 2000 election - another lie from the left) - and calling on the assembled world leaders to join the fight against American and Israeli racism. Representatives from over 180 nations spent a full week listening to mostly anti-American rhetoric and took this message home to their countries - many ruled by dictators and thugs - on Sept. 9, 2001. Think this will be included in the 9-11 Terrorism Report, or Kissinger's investigation? Eactly 15 months after 9-11 and still no comments from the press. Racism is too incendiary internationally.
When did David Horowitz become psychic??
Funny how Horowitz, himself a rabid target of censorship, is now ready to punk down and cave in to the mob when it's someone else on the hot seat.
If the pragmatic Freepers out there need to wave the white flag (no pun intened) to Maxine Waters, Jesse Jackson, and the rest of the RAT Race-Baiters and PC Thought Police, you will only be emboldening and encouraging this Frankenstein monster to further unjustifiable initimidation...
And that is exactly how this will all go down.
That is called "leadership."
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