Posted on 12/11/2002 10:09:09 PM PST by TLBSHOW
In the end, it is all about political expediency. The faction inside your Party who prevails will be the one who convinces the most Republicans of their view of his relative liability or usefulness.
As an outsider, I would opine that he has hurt your party more than helped already. It seems that he has alienated the more conservative members of your party by things he has done having nothing whatsoever to do with this flap.
HA!!!!
You noticed, huh?
Well face it, he could've threatened [to try to] break your neck as he's been know to do, right?
So c'mon now, give credit where it's due!
There's actually been a marked improvement whenever threats have been replaced with insults.
Just chalk-up the whole experience to:
"One can fool some of the people some of the time; but, not all of the people all of the time."
Whereby you may assume your (rightfully earned) place in the, "all of the people" column, now. {g}
Just between you & I?
I love that guy to pieces, I swear.
...makes me look so moderate. :o)
I think the howling could be lessened considerably if it was made known that the removal of Lott would be met with a complete- and public- investigation of a Democratic senator for criminal activities that would result in his loss of office as well...particularly if it were one mentioned as a potential Democratic presidential or VP candidate. I'm sure some likely suspect could be found, and in the aftermath of the Gary Condit scandal, I expect some quick backpedalling would result.
If not, Bush could always begin replacing ALL the Demovcratic holdovers he's kept on since the Clinton administration, including all the Democratic U.S. Attorneys brought in to replace the Republicans tossed out by Clinton...if Bush hasn't cut a deal with the Democrats already, hoping to gain support for a war in Iraq from some Key Democrats, without which his reelection chances may be nil.
-archy-/-
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