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Trent Lott hates Ted Cruz! A lot! He hates hates hates the guy!
Redstate ^ | 2/6/2016 | Moe Lane

Posted on 02/06/2016 3:52:15 PM PST by JSDude1

Former Senator Trent Lott – who, as you might remember, walked into a political buzzsaw in 2002 over comments that effectively destroyed his Senate career – highly disapproves of this Senator Ted Cruz fellow. Not least because Senator Cruz said some awful, awful things about former Senator Lott’s good friend, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. It’s always interesting to see how a lobbyist defines ‘inappropriate behavior,’ really. Hoover up all the political pork you can? That’s Senatorial. Call Mitch McConnell a liar over the Export-Import Bank? Call out the Sergeant-At-Arms:

“Having been majority leader, I’ve never had someone stand on the Senate floor and call me a liar,” Lott said in an interview with The Hill’s Molly K. Hooper. “In fact, if I had been in the Senate at that time I would have moved to have him removed from the Senate chamber physically.”

A few things, here. First, note the on the Senate floor. That’s there because any number of people have called Trent Lott a liar over the years. Second: …I have been doing this gig since 2001, 2002. I am pretty familiar with how people operate in Washington, DC. And I can say this without much fear of contradiction: Trent Lott is absolutely lying, there. There is not a chance in Perdition that Trent Lott would have willingly provoked a confrontation on the Senate floor like that, pretty much because the inevitable result would have been twofold. First: Lott’s faction in the government would have had even more trouble shoving through the reauthorization of the Export-Import Bank. Second (and much more importantly): Trent Lott would have been a dead man walking in his next Senatorial primary*.

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TOPICS: Editorial; Extended News; Politics/Elections; US: Mississippi
KEYWORDS: conservative; corruption; cruz; lott; mediabias; rino; teaparty
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1 posted on 02/06/2016 3:52:16 PM PST by JSDude1
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So does Jeb Bush.

So what!


2 posted on 02/06/2016 3:54:22 PM PST by xzins (Have YOU Donated to the Freep-a-Thon? https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: JSDude1

Another “the enemy of my enemy” endorsement


3 posted on 02/06/2016 3:54:46 PM PST by almcbean
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To: JSDude1

And I hate Trent Lott, so there.


4 posted on 02/06/2016 3:54:52 PM PST by dfwgator
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Amounts to an good endorsement for Cruz. Trent Lott? Good grief. Who will they trLott out next
5 posted on 02/06/2016 3:54:54 PM PST by DoughtyOne (the Free Republic Caucus: what FReepers are thinking, 100s or 1000s of them. It's up to you.)
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To: JSDude1

Lott was the epitome of the establishment go along to get along weakling.

When you have a dwarf like Tom Daschle rolling you at every turn, its time to hang it up.

Now he’s just another lobbyist whore.


6 posted on 02/06/2016 3:54:56 PM PST by headstamp 2
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To: JSDude1

Yet another establishment hack that will probably endorse Trump.


7 posted on 02/06/2016 3:56:32 PM PST by GodGunsGuts
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To: JSDude1

What a great endorsement for Cruz !!!


8 posted on 02/06/2016 3:58:39 PM PST by Critical 1
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"Having been majority leader, I've never had someone stand on the Senate floor and call me a liar," Lott said

Truth hurts, eh Trent? Especially in a public forum. You never could handle it.

9 posted on 02/06/2016 4:00:28 PM PST by Mr. Mojo
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Lott left the Senate well before Cruz arrives. I wonder if the two have ever even met.


10 posted on 02/06/2016 4:00:57 PM PST by Theodore R. (Liberals keep winning; so the American people must now be all-liberal all the time.)
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To: JSDude1

Trent Lott was once a reliable, inspiring conservative. He fell off the rails so long ago that we can’t remember how he once was. MS fails again!


11 posted on 02/06/2016 4:02:15 PM PST by Theodore R. (Liberals keep winning; so the American people must now be all-liberal all the time.)
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To: JSDude1

Trump endorsed Chris McDaniel. Cruz cozied up to Lankford & Cochran.


12 posted on 02/06/2016 4:02:57 PM PST by ObamahatesPACoal (Savage BLASTS Megyn Kelly, Fox News Over Treatment Of Trump)
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"In fact, if I had been in the Senate at that time I would have moved to have him removed from the Senate chamber physically.'

Of that I have no doubt. Scratch a RINO, find an insecure authoritarian.

13 posted on 02/06/2016 4:03:35 PM PST by Mr. Mojo
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The King of Squish.

He let the Clinton fungus grow..

What did Hil’s Fbi files have on him?


14 posted on 02/06/2016 4:03:44 PM PST by NormsRevenge (SEMPER FI!! - Monthly Donors Rock!!)
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To: DoughtyOne

The sissy couldn’t stand up to the Rat Party, But....he will stand up to a conservative.
What a joke.


15 posted on 02/06/2016 4:13:58 PM PST by bobo1 (progressives=commies/fascists)
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I loathe and despise Trent Lott. What a worthless POS is this political hack.


16 posted on 02/06/2016 4:14:03 PM PST by MasterGunner01 ( Barbara Da)
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Isn’t he the same Trent lott that let Clinton off the hook?


17 posted on 02/06/2016 4:14:13 PM PST by stockpirate (Fox News aka - False News Network "We deceive, you believe.")
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Redstate ^ | 2/6/2016 | Moe Lane

Who cares what some loser at Redstate.com thinks.


18 posted on 02/06/2016 4:14:37 PM PST by McGruff (Rubio quit his job as senator. Can't have a quitter as president.)
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I agree. I may not support Cruz, but this is just silly.

What did Trent Lott do for us in the last ten years?


19 posted on 02/06/2016 4:17:04 PM PST by DoughtyOne (the Free Republic Caucus: what FReepers are thinking, 100s or 1000s of them. It's up to you.)
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He posts here under the pseudonym _______.


20 posted on 02/06/2016 4:22:50 PM PST by jwalsh07 (On)
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