The GOP, Party of Cowards

Ever Vigilant ^ | 12/23/2003 | Lee R. Shelton IV

[dyed_in_the_wool]

I don't think you'll ever see trenchant idealism in the Senate.
Those people didn't get there by being principled. Not one of them.

[ImpBill]

Oh, this should be a fun thread.

Happy New Year.

[Fred Mertz]

Excellent!

[sheltonmac]

*PING*

[MileHi]

Nice article.

[Archangelsk]

Or a pulled thread, or a thread with many comments pulled. :-)

[xm177e2]

Neo-cons don't have an agenda? WTF? I thought we were criticized for wanting to do too much around the world.

[rooster1]

Yep! We just need a few good men with a pair of 'em to stand up and say "Enough is Enough", but I don't think any one like that is currently in office.

[billbears]

Bending to political peer pressure doesn't help —in fact, it makes you look weak

A hearty thank you. However I don't think you're going to get a lot of praise for saying something like that. We're a kinder gentler Republican party now. Selling out principles for power. By the time that power is gained the principles will be completely forgotten.

[TLBSHOW]

BTTT

[sphinx]

Lott did himself in with his stumbling series of apologies. IMO, he needed to apologize ONCE for poorly chosen words -- which is what he more-or-less tried to do the first time -- and then, when the barrage didn't lift, go on the attack against Democrat race baiting. If 'ya just stand there like a punching bag, expect to get punched out. The best defense is a good offense, and the 'rats have been playing with fire on race for years.

[Luis Gonzalez]

"I wanna tell you, ladies and gentlemen, that there's not enough troops in the army to force the southern people to break down segregation and admit the nigger race into our theatres into our swimming pools into our homes and into our churches."---Strom Thurmond, presidential candidate, 1948

"I wanna say this about my state. When Strom Thurmond ran for president, we voted for him. We're proud of him. And if the rest of the country had followed our lead we wouldn't have had all these problems over all these years either." Senator Trent Lott, Dec 2002

[alpowolf]

By the time that power is gained the principles will be completely forgotten

That's always the thing that irritates me most when the so-called pragmatists insist that a sell-out is necessary. Their circular logic spins around and around: they can't stick to principle because they don't have enough power...when they get the power, they still can't stick to principle because they're afraid of losing the power. But what is the point of power, if not to use it?

[Luis Gonzalez]

"Nobody proposed that when the senator from Mississippi implied that we would be better off had Strom Thurmond been elected president in 1948, he was referring to some of the more noble causes Thurmond stood for, like states' rights and a less-intrusive federal government."

"I wanna tell you, ladies and gentlemen, that there's not enough troops in the army to force the southern people to break down segregation and admit the nigger race into our theatres into our swimming pools into our homes and into our churches."---Strom Thurmond, presidential candidate, 1948

Yeah, right...

[Fiddlstix]

Bump

[bewildered]

While I agree with you in principle, I think Trent Lott totally screwed this one up as well. His repeated apologies and lame excuses seemed to make it worse. If he would have just explained his comments once, as you did, then told everyone to shut the hell up it would have been better.

After reading Anne Coulter's editorial about Lott and Thurmond being converted Democrats, I began to question him as well. This is not the first time Lott has spouted off. Quoting a little from Ann's article which has other examples of Lott slip-ups...

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.

While this may appear as another Republican cave-in, maybe many republicans figured it was a good time to get rid of some dead wood.

[Mr. K]

I made these same comments before (vacant)Lott gave up the fight.

As much as I wanted to see him gome (for being a spinelss jellyfish) I hated to see the liberals succeed in doing it this way. The man was branded a racists and hounded out of officee successfully by liberals. They will be emboldened to do it again.

Look what they are trying to do to Frist already. (Cat murderer, etc...)

[Luis Gonzalez]

The GOP is a party of cowards?

Well then, the just got rid of the head coward in Trent Lott.

Fully supports affirmative action?

I'm glad Trent quit before he got to do the Oprah show, and announced his support for reparations.

[Eastbound]

". . .Party of Cowards."

That would make the demrats the 'Party of Bullies,' the mildest appelation I can think of for that un-American, worse-than-criminal, puss-filled threat to the Republic, treasonous enterprise.