The GOP, Party of Cowards

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

[TLBSHOW]

there you are! LOL

the water is fine over here too!

Why Win If You're Going to Wimp Out? (Rush Limbaugh asks Republicans) ^

Posted by TLBSHOW

[Concerned]

CYNICOM WROTE TO M.PEACH: "M. I never understood how Lott was ever voted in as majority leader."

He was next in line in SENIORITY after Dole.

[Luis Gonzalez]

Ping me when you have something intelligent to add to the discourse.

[cynicom]

Luis...

Be nice now. You got caught with your socialism showing and you know it.

[Luis Gonzalez]

LOL!!!

Bye, I have to find someone with some sort of intelligence to talk to.

And you ain't it.

[antaresequity]

No, the neo-cons were so desperate to prove that they could be just as racially sensitive as their slightly more liberal counterparts that Lott's political fate had already been sealed

Trent Lott was a crappy Senate leader...thats why he is gone...though I totally agree with the author on the rest of his premise...by and large...that the road paved with apeasment is stupid...

The war never ends...might as well fight "our" war...

[Luis Gonzalez]

sheltonmac IS the "author".

[Concerned]

SHELTONMAC WROTE: "If he was so INCOMPETENT and INEFFECTIVE, why was he even chosen as Majority Leader in the first place?"

Lott was the next in line in SENIORITY in the Republican ranks after Dole left to run his sorry campaign for President.

[antaresequity]

My bad...

[Luis Gonzalez]

That's OK, most people wouldn't admit to it openly.

[Concerned]

I WROTE: "Although I would have PREFERRED for Lott to be voted out of LEADERSHIP long ago, Lott's REPEATED apology gaffes and eventual LIBERAL promises on BET were the straw that broke the camel's back."

L. N. SMITHEE RESPONDED WITH: "Precisely. And because he didn't step down immediately, now the lefties can say lie that he was forced out of leadership only because he apologized too much and promised changes the party didn't want to make. That's what makes this a disaster for the GOP any way you slice it."

We'll have to agree to disagree. Other than on FR, Lott is ANCIENT HISTORY.

Lott is NOT the LEADER---he is "just" a Senator who was REPEATEDLY VOTED IN by HIS MISSISSIPPI CONSTITUENTS who have decided that he REPRESENTS THEM (and VOTED OUT by Republican Senators who have decided that he does NOT REPRESENT THEM!).

[Concerned]

REPUBLIC OF TEXAS WROTE: "Regardless of the circumstances, a chance to dump Lott was too good to pass up. NOW, we need to go on the offense against the left, and especially on race issues. (Should be easy since they are racists and we are not) No game is ever won soley by defense."

You're singing to the choir now. I agree with you.

[Concerned]

L. N. SMITHEE RESPONDED TO ME WITH: "Precisely. And because he didn't step down immediately, now the lefties can say lie that he was forced out of leadership only because he apologized too much and promised changes the party didn't want to make. That's what makes this a disaster for the GOP any way you slice it."

I RESPONDED TO HIM WITH: "We'll have to agree to disagree. Other than on FR, Lott is ANCIENT HISTORY."

OOPS! I disagree with the idea that it is a disaster for the GOP. I agree that the RATS will try to portray it that way. I do not believe that they will get any traction because of the realization that FOX News' audience is INCREASING and CNN, MSNBC, CNBC audiences are DECREASING---for a REASON.

[sheltonmac]

"The VOTERS of MISSISSIPPI who CHOOSE HIM to REPRESENT THEM!!!"

The VOTERS of MISSISSIPPI CHOSE HIM to REPRESENT THEM, but that DOESN'T mean that HE is FIT to REPRESENT THEM!!!

[dirtboy]

Lott was the next in line in SENIORITY in the Republican ranks after Dole left to run his sorry campaign for President.

That is not correct. Lott was first elected to the Senate in 1988, and I can think of several other Senators who had seniority. Lott did have experience as Whip in both the House and Senate.

[Concerned]

I WROTE: "The VOTERS of MISSISSIPPI who CHOOSE HIM to REPRESENT THEM!!!"

SHELTONMAC RESPONDED WITH: "The VOTERS of MISSISSIPPI CHOSE HIM to REPRESENT THEM, but that DOESN'T mean that HE is FIT to REPRESENT THEM!!!"

So WHO do YOU think should decide who is "FIT" and would BEST REPRESENT THEM???...YOU?

Sorry, Sheltonmac, but THAT is why we have ELECTIONS...so the VOTERS (preferably LIVE ones) CHOOSE who THEY want to REPRESENT THEM.

[Fred Mertz]

YOU two GUYS are SLAYING me...LOL

[Who is John Galt?]

In other words, "if you can't beat 'em, join 'em." And that, my friends, has become the battle cry of the neo-conservatives in the GOP, Party of Cowards.

The Republicans will have a chance to prove whether or not they are really republicans in less than two years, when the so-called 'assault weapons' ban is scheduled to expire. Anyone care to predict what our Republican President and our Republican Congress will do to the 2nd Amendment of the United States Constitution, given that 2004 is an election year?

I suspect it won't be pretty...