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Lott's sin is giving Dems ammo--so he must go
Chicago Sun Times ^
| 12/15/02
| Mark Steyn
Posted on 12/15/2002 6:32:09 AM PST by chiller
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To: sam I am
Clinton's been absent because he claimed the Dems did not have a "destruction machine" like the Republicans do. HA. The next time he shows his face I hope somebody asks him about his non-existant destruction machine. I'm quite sure they would ask him, so don't look for him for a while.
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posted on
12/15/2002 12:43:12 PM PST
by
chiller
To: ricpic
The correct answer is"B".Why?Because only SOME young black males are "the terror of our cities"just as only SOME white males I grew up with in the nice white suburb of San Mateo used to rob and terrorize some of us white kids back in the Sixties!
I live in Oakland,am white and I am certainly NOT terrorized by black males or anyone else for that matter.Now if I were a BLACK person I might feel concern for my safety since almost all the victims of criminals in my city are black or Mexican.
But your generalizations are unfounded and show your prejudices.
To: chiller
You're right, he's on the money. Strom became a dixiecrat
because he was a racist. Lott's support shows he's either a racist, an idiot or a fool. In any case, he's not fit to be our leader.
Strom led the walkout from the '48 Democratic Convention because a presidential panel had proposed a federal anti-lynching law and the abolition of poll taxes designed to keep blacks from voting. That's it.
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posted on
12/15/2002 12:54:51 PM PST
by
GOPJ
To: chiller; wirestripper; Torie; Poohbah; Texasforever; Miss Marple
It's pathetic that Jesse (''Hymietown'') Jackson should be huffing and puffing about Lott's outrageous behavior. It's ridiculous that RNC Chairman Marc Racicot has been bullied into a meeting with Al Sharpton: If Lott is unacceptable as Senate majority leader, the race-baiting Rev should be unacceptable anywhere. But that's why principled conservatives have a right to be furious with the senator.
Yep.
To: Sabertooth
There is a double standard. Whining about it does us no good. The best way to cope with it is to simply do the right thing, no matter what. Eventually, the voters will figure out who's zoomin' who.
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posted on
12/15/2002 1:01:58 PM PST
by
Poohbah
To: TigersEye
Trent, is that you?
"If he is forced to step down he has as much as admitted guilt 'as charged'."
He is guilty as charged. He is guilty of being a moron -- not a racist.
"Why would he want to continue on in the Senate as a self branded racist and bigot and put his family through that?"
Again, as I have stated in other posts, this may be how Trent Lott wants to frame the issue, but it is not the issue. The issue is Lott's propensity for gaffes, and his genius for snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.
Lott bent the rules to get himself named Majority Leader in the first place. Rather than holding the election after the start of the new session, he schedules it during the Lame Duck session, counting on getting 25 votes from the get-along gang that remains. The newly-elected Senators got almost no input on the decision.
Why do you suppose that was? Maybe because Lott *knew* he was a fumble-mouth, and feared that something would happen between Election Day and Inaugeration Day.
He did, too. He sold out Bush on the Lame Duck session immediately after the election. Then he attempted to sell out the Republicans on the Homeland Defence Bill. Like I said earlier, the straw that breaks isn't usually the heaviest one.
"Why has the left made an issue of this in the first place?"
The left did not make an issue of this until after the right erupted. Initially Daschle and the other dwarves were all for giving Lott a pass. Only after they smelled blood in the water, did they decide the issue was worth raising -- lind of like seeing the mob, and deciding that you better get ahead of it so you can be seen as a leader.
No Democrat has called for Lott's resignation from his seat. None are going to because they have several Senators with racist pasts, who would also be put on the spot.
If you wish to defend Lott, fine. Like I said, they call the GOP the Stupid Party for a reason.
To: Poohbah
The key to solving the double standard is to raise the bar for the Democrats, not to lower ours.
To: No Truce With Kings
Daschle was perfectly happy to have a Republican Majority Leader who was that much of an idiot.
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posted on
12/15/2002 1:04:54 PM PST
by
Poohbah
To: Poohbah
"Daschle was perfectly happy to have a Republican Majority Leader who was that much of an idiot."
I think the main reason the Democrats are criticizing Lott is the hope that Republicans will decide that they have to keep Lott to put the Dems in their place.
To: Sabertooth
Exactly.
Besides, the liberal press will not let us get away with it.
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posted on
12/15/2002 1:10:14 PM PST
by
Poohbah
To: chiller
Lott's sin is giving Dems ammo Which brings up an interesting side note: There aren't many more people with Thurmond's past left in the Senate. We have to remember that this happened at Thurmond's 100th birthday party. He also had the entire Senate give him a moment of appreciation, as well as some testimonials by other Senators. The last Senator that I can recall living this long and still being in the Senate was Claude Pepper.
Who are the next Senators of that era who will retire or have milestone events? How will their retirement affairs be tainted by how the Democrats treated Lott? People haven't been dwelling on this much, but the whole Lott affair is also turning all the Thurmond tributes into back-handed compliments. How can they say anything of praise to Thurmond now and have it taken with any sincerity? How do we know they weren't feigning sincerity towards Thurmond all along?
I say this because the next in line for this treatment will be: 1) Robert Byrd, 2) Jesse Helms, 3) Ernest Hollings. What will happen to them and anyone who pays tribute to them?
-PJ
To: chiller
That, after all, is what a ''Dixiecrat'' is: a Southern racist Democrat.Perhaps Steyn has made it permissible to say things like "this mealy-mouthed pea-brain must go"! He is a stereotypical southern pork barrel specialist and nothing more. It has been a point of amazement to me that he continues to be elected Senate leader.
To: No Truce With Kings
If you wish to defend Lott, fine. Like I said, they call the GOP the Stupid Party for a reason. I don't think Lott's a racist but that's not my point. The idea that Dem senators are vulnerable because they are racist is laughable. What on earth is beyond excusing for the Dem's? They will take Lott's seat and thumb their nose at us. If what Lott said about Thurmond was so bad how is it that Strom himself is still revered and sat in the Senate so long? Never mind, that's not the point either.
I simply predict that if Lott steps down as ML he will also give up his Senate seat. Perhaps not all at once but shortly thereafter. The pubs will lose the senate majority before the new senate is sworn in.
To: Poohbah
Besides, the liberal press will not let us get away with it.So the liberal press is going to help us raise the bar on Democrats?
To: TigersEye
No. But people
will eventually notice the double standard.
The liberal press is, in a perverse way, our friend. They force us to work that much harder, and allow the Democrats to be that much lazier. Hard work and laziness generally beget very different rewards.
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posted on
12/15/2002 1:56:29 PM PST
by
Poohbah
To: Poohbah
If Republicans hold on, and if the Democrats and the liberal media over-reach and continue to push this story, then it will be another case of the Democrats not being able to get their message out. Now, during the lull between the mid-term election and the start of the new Congress, would have been the time for Democrats to introduce new initiatives. However, they are harping on the "old song" that Republicans are racist, to the exclusion of introducing new ideas. Their cries of racism will not buy them much as they will be preaching to the choir -- those that would believe already believe, and those that don't will not be swayed by the shrill voices.
Over time, the war in Iraq, terrorism, and national and international affairs will overtake this story, and the Democrats will have lost an opportunity control the agenda for positive purposes.
-PJ
To: Political Junkie Too
If Republicans hold on, and if the Democrats and the liberal media over-reach and continue to push this story, then it will be another case of the Democrats not being able to get their message out.If Republicans hold on to the Vacant Lott, then every single damn thing we do will be successfully filibustered, and said filibustering will have just enough of a veneer of respectability that it won't be portrayed as cynical partisanship.
Lott has to go, simply because he's a Class A F***-Up.
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posted on
12/15/2002 2:14:03 PM PST
by
Poohbah
To: MeeknMing
Thanks for the heads up!
To: chiller
The incoming Senate majority leader couldn't even wait till he'd come in to start screwing up. Insofar as he has any conservative defenders, the defense is this: Hey, relax, Trent isn't racist, just stupid. Another Steyn classic.
If I had a nickel for every time a Lott defender prefaced his remarks with, "Yes, he's stupid, BUT..." in the last 72 hours, I could retire.
To: Pokey78
Bump!
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posted on
12/15/2002 2:36:45 PM PST
by
facedown
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