Democrats: A Lott of trouble (ANN COULTERS VIEWS ON TRENT LOTT ATTACK)

worldnetdaily ^ | 12/18/2002 | Ann Coulter

[TLBSHOW]

Democrats: A Lott of trouble

I'm just glad Strom Thurmond isn't around to see this.

Statisticians believe Trent Lott is now on track to break Bill Clinton's single-season record for public apologies. During his recent B.E.T. appearance, Lott said he supported affirmative action, regretted voting against the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, and that he'd give "The Bernie Mac Show" another try.

What the Lott incident shows is that Republicans have to be careful about letting Democrats into our party. Back when they supported segregation, Lott and Thurmond were Democrats. This is something the media are intentionally hiding to make it look like the Republican Party is the party of segregation and race discrimination, which it never has been.

In 1948, Thurmond did not run as a "Dixiecan," he ran as a "Dixiecrat" – his party was an offshoot of the Democratic Party. And when he lost, he went right back to being a Democrat. This whole brouhaha is about a former Democrat praising another former Democrat for what was once a Democrat policy.

Republicans made Southern Democrats drop the race nonsense when they entered the Republican Party. Democrats supported race discrimination, then for about three years they didn't, now they do again. They've just changed which race they think should be discriminated against. In the 1920s, the Democratic platforms didn't even call for anti-lynching legislation as the Republican platforms did.

Thurmond's Dixiecrat Party was not the only extremist spin-off from the Democratic Party in 1948. Henry Wallace, formerly FDR's vice president and agriculture secretary, left the Democratic Party that year to form the communist-dominated and Soviet-backed "Progressive Party." Much as Thurmond's Dixiecrat Party was expressly pro-segregation, Wallace's Progressive Party was expressly pro-Soviet.

Indeed, this was the apex of Moscow-directed subversion of U.S. politics. The Progressive Party platform excluded even the mildest criticism of Soviet aggression. It will come as no surprise that many American celebrities supported Wallace. The Progressives received 1 million votes nationwide, about the same as Thurmond's Dixiecrat Party.

Thurmond went on to reject segregation, become a Republican, and serve his country well as a U.S. senator. By contrast, running a communist-dominated presidential campaign was Wallace's last hurrah. Yet only an off-the-cuff remark at a birthday party praising Thurmond's presidential campaign is the career-destroyer. Not so fawning references to Wallace's Soviet-backed presidential campaign.

Just two years before Lott's remarks, a hagiographic book on Wallace's life was released, titled "American Dreamer." How about a book about a segregationist titled "American Dreamer"? Wallace's version of the American "dream" was communism every bit as much as Strom Thurmond's dream was segregation. Aren't dreams of murderous dictators, gulags and death camps at least comparable in evil to segregated lunch counters?

The dust jacket on "American Dreamer" featured a nauseating statement of praise by U.S. Sen. Edward Kennedy. Kennedy said that the book deserved "to be read by all who care about the American dream." The American dream: communist totalitarianism. Why wasn't the lecherous liberal asked to retire for his flattering remarks about a proven Soviet fifth columnist?

In 1999, the Clinton administration dedicated a room at the Agriculture Department to Wallace. At the dedication, former Democratic presidential candidate George McGovern gave a speech explicitly praising Wallace's pro-Soviet positions, such as the idea that the Cold War was "overdone" and that "problems" between the nations "could not be resolved by military means."

McGovern fondly recalled that he himself had voted for Wallace. He chipperly reminded the audience that he had run for president in 1972 "on a similar platform" – with the help of a young Yale law school graduate named Bill Clinton. Inasmuch as Trent Lott was in kindergarten in 1948, he did not vote for Thurmond. He did not run on a "similar" platform to the Dixiecrats. He did not write a jacket-flap endorsement calling a segregationist an "American Dreamer."

The idea that Lott took the occasion of an old timer's birthday to introduce a new policy initiative to bring back segregation – a Democrat policy – is ludicrous. Lott is a fine fellow; he just has some sort of liberal-Tourette's syndrome that makes him spout Democrat ideas at random. A few years ago, Lott practically wanted to give the adulterous Air Force pilot Kelly Flinn a silver star for her service. Remember that?

Up until two weeks ago, conservatives were clamoring for Lott's removal precisely because of his annoying habit of saying dumb things. (Showing their inferior intellect, liberals have only recently figured that out.) Republicans should ask Lott to step down as leader, but only for all the nice things he's said about Teddy Kennedy.

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[jwalsh07]

The democrats are not stupid people. In fact, they are shrewder than our side more often than not.

I said it last night and I'll say it again. The left will be positioning themselves as the party of compassion and redemption. They are able to do this because the republicans do not stand up to assaults that have any reference to race.

I might add that I think John Lewis is informed by his Christianity anad he is sincere about redemption. That will not, however, stop him from pressing for a political advantage in the yers to come.

James Carville I don't trust as far as I can throw him. He's a political firebug.

[jwalsh07]

When FR becomes a popularity contest let me know.

Why?

[ApesForEvolution]

"James Carville just read a letter on CNN that he wrote to Lott accepting his apology because he said he spoke to John Lewis about it. He said that Lewis convinced him that nothing would ever be done about race relations if we kept up the crusade against Trent Lott.

I'm totally confused because Carville seemed sincere. ???

Because they overplayed their hand. The RAT-tool Lott as ML, even more their guy after he gave us patent Lott - was what they aimed for with a wide swath cut across 'WHITEY GOP & WHITEY BIGOT CONSERVATIVES'.

Now, we turn this around.

Lott is (soon) off the table as ML, sticks around because he has a 'contract with Mississippians through 06' and needs to do something right.

The RATS will have themselves a man that will be fair...but firm...and they're scared shatless.

[TLBSHOW]

Inasmuch as Trent Lott was in kindergarten in 1948, he did not vote for Thurmond. He did not run on a "similar" platform to the Dixiecrats. He did not write a jacket-flap endorsement calling a segregationist an "American Dreamer."

The idea that Lott took the occasion of an old timer's birthday to introduce a new policy initiative to bring back segregation – a Democrat policy – is ludicrous.

Ann Coulter

[VaBthang4]

Bingo.

[ApesForEvolution]

Yaaaaaa Baaaby! grOWLLLL! Conservative babes are KEWEL!

She's better to look at than a poke in the eye, that's fur sure.

[Sabertooth]

I don't find anything admirable at all in your use of this incident to dump Lott.

That's politics. He has become a liability.

Tell me, what is admirable about hamstringing our Senate, letting the Dems make us the Party of Lott, and couging up the Legislative and Executive Branches in two years, just because it galls you to concede a lost and worthless cause to the Democrats?

It's all about self-congratualtion and spite for Lott defenders; any downside to Lott stepping down goes threefold for him staying.

If the Democrats want to do us a favor, let them.

Your strategy is like fighting to keep the Germans from blowing up a bridge you wanted down anyway.

[ApesForEvolution]

Cloud? Meet Silver Lining...

[VaBthang4]

"Your strategy is like fighting to keep the Germans from blowing up a bridge you wanted down anyway."

Haha....perfect analogy.

[Sabertooth]

Don't be too surprised if one day someone taps you on the back of your shoulder, and, as you turn around to see who it is, you see Coulter tossing a vicious right cross upon your chin for even suggesting that she is, in any way , shape or form, tlbshow's girl.

I'd hit her in the mouth with a pastrami sandwich, and make her finish it.

[TLBSHOW]

Thurmond went on to reject segregation, become a Republican, and serve his country well as a U.S. senator.

Ann Coulter

[ApesForEvolution]

"That's politics. He has become a liability.

Tell me, what is admirable about hamstringing our Senate, letting the Dems make us the Party of Lott, and couging up the Legislative and Executive Branches in two years, just because it galls you to concede a lost and worthless cause to the Democrats?

It's all about self-congratualtion and spite for Lott defenders; any downside to Lott stepping down goes threefold for him staying.

If the Democrats want to do us a favor, let them.

Your strategy is like fighting to keep the Germans from blowing up a bridge you wanted down anyway"

Chalk it up to the "Custer Caucus" of the GOP. BTW, BRA-VO! WELL, well said mis amigo!

[jwalsh07]

You better get used to the idea that you shot at and missed the second in command of the republican party because there will be a price paid for that.

Lott's not going anywhere, the tide has turned. The rats won't be releasing any more "embarassing" information, that is if they have any.

Spike Lee said yesterday that Colin Powell and Condie Rice should be out criticising Lott and guess what Colin Powell did today?

You were played like a violin by a virtuoso.

I only hope that once and for all America can have an open and frank debate about race in this country.

[hole_n_one]

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[jwalsh07]

I told you last night what would hapen and you harrumphed it. Now I'm telling you that you missed, Lott will be staying. See my previous post.

[VaBthang4]

"vicious right-cross"

LOL

What is she 120 lbs? Just how vicious could it be? LOL...

I'd get the willies because she touched me. Yuck.

[Sabertooth]

You better get used to the idea that you shot at and missed the second in command of the republican party because there will be a price paid for that.

Lott's not going anywhere, the tide has turned. The rats won't be releasing any more "embarassing" information, that is if they have any.

I have good news: there is life after Kool Aid.

[ApesForEvolution]

"I'd hit her in the mouth with a pastrami sandwich, and make her finish it."

Oh, man...now you've got me choking on my BLT!!! LOL!!!

Bacon, Lettuce, Tomato, 1 slice American, 1 slice Swiss, Light Pepper, Deli Dill, Miracle Whip and.....FRESH LOTTED 12 GRAIN WHOLE WHEAT!!

With a side of gourmet chips and a cooool beverage of course.

[Mercat]

As usual, Ann says it best.

[Cultural Jihad]

• Aren't dreams of murderous dictators, gulags and death camps at least comparable in evil to segregated lunch counters?
• Republicans should ask Lott to step down as leader, but only for all the nice things he's said about Teddy Kennedy.

A two-bullseye BTTT for this excellent read.