Is it really news that the GOP electing a segregationist?

An incredibly stupid choice; they learned nothing a week ago. Our trolls must be celebrating.

Shoot me now.

Save one bullet in case the first one fails.

Time to blow out the burning crosses on the cake!

Seems like republican minortiy whip in this present political enviroment would not be something you would want on your resume.

jp2:

I seem to remember that Robert Byrd was an ex-KKK member.

Don't wake jp2 up by telling him the truth. Support Mad Dog Murtha so we can have a few more laughs for the next two years. Even Hanoi John (a known traitor) gets a position that will allow him off of his knees once a week. Peeeloshi's a** must be getting wrinkled that from all of the kissing and slobbering. Someone photo shop him from the picture of his royal highness watching the annointed leader's walking down the hall. His face was much longer than usual.

Can the results of this election become any funnier. Yep, when Jack names the dim's he paid for favors. Bring it on Jack and the president will issue a complete pardon, but you have to name the right names. Reid and anyone from Ca will do. Two republican governors can replace them with republicans. Wouldn't that be a hoot. I'll bet Peeloshi's a** has ate a dozen pair of panties in the past two days. ROFL

I seem to remember that Robert Byrd was an ex-KKK member.

He was. And he gets away with using the "N" word. But haven't I been reading here about how us good guys take out our trash whereas the Dems worship theirs?

IMHO, the choice of Lott will go a long ways to defuse the Dem's Murtha mess and their (likely) choice of the crook Alcee Hastings to head up a critically important committee. It's all the liars in the MSM needs for cover.

In politics it's never okay to have a checkered past. I certaintly would never have voted for Byrd, even though he seems to be genuinely apologetic about his previous membership.

He isn't proud of his past. Lott is. That's the difference.

Old Coot:

I fully agree. My point was, I'm sick of the drive-by sanctimonious comments from those on the left, in this case, from jp2.

jp2:

You must have missed Byrd's recent use of the "N" word. "He isn't proud of his past." Could've fooled me.

The negatives of this is recycled leadership and an pro-pork in the lead. Upside, name me a better knife fighter in the senate. This tells me the senate republicans are serious about putting the kibosh on any democratic moves to the left. Let the games begin.

All the recent events are just pushing me further to the Libertarian party. The Republican party is just as bad as the Democrat party right now.

The contest was between Lott and Lamar Alexander. No one else was in the race.

I like Alexander a lot, although he isn't as conservative as I am - or Lott is, for that matter. He does fit the Tennessee tradition of center-right Republican Senators like Howard Baker, Fred Thompson, and Bill Frist. I supported Alexander in the Presidential primaries in 1996.

The job of Whip is to keep the caucus together on important votes. Lott, as a former Whip AND Majority Leader, knows how to do this. He is well versed on Senate rules and practices, and has been there long enough to know most of our Senators pretty well - and to know what it takes to get the stragglers on board.

Funny, the left feels perfectly entitled to call Lott a "segregationist" for ill-worded salute to Strom Thurmond on his birthday, but when we call Murtha a Defeatocrat for overtly and repeatedly advocating cutting-and-running from Iraq, or question his judgment in accepting "Man of the Year" award from Code Pink AFTER they raised money for the Iraqi terrorists shooting at our troops, they object.

This election only 3 republicans got my vote. (CA governor, CA lt governor and my congressman) If they don't immediately get their collective heads out of their own rears and stop acting like the "Office of Navel Contemplation" I'll change that in 2008 to cast zero votes for the GOP.

They aren't going to get any votes from me merely by claiming the other side is worse. At least the other side is open about their attitude towards me.

All the recent events are just pushing me further to the Libertarian party.

Before the FCC ruling that a company could own more than one radio station in a market, satellite radio did not have a chance against terrasterial radio.

Since that ruling, music formats on the whole have been watered down and live local jocks were replaced with wancasted air talents from a totally different city and sometimes state. Individual stations were not as important as the cluster or the designated cash cow in that cluster. So overall programing suffered because the station you liked to listen to didn't have to be number 1 or put out the best product. this is because advertising is packaged and sold as a cluster not for any one particular station.

Overall radio listernship is down from 20 years ago. People started drifting away from radio because they were given less of a reason to listen.

This gave satellite radio the toe hold it has in the market. Why would you pay for something you used to get free? Because you are disatisfied with the current product.

The elected Republican leadership could be facing the same thing. People might start drifting away from the Republican Party because they are not given any reason to stay. Obviously they chose Libertarian as the party more similiar to their own.

When Lott was forced to resign and Frist came aboard everything went downhill in the Senate. Politics isn't pretty. With Dems in control, Republicans need a savvy political player who knows what to expect and how to intercept it. Choir boys like Frist and less ruthless, less, wily types like Alexander would likely be destroyed with the Dems in control.

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Moron.

Lott made a stupid remark while trying to honor a dying old man and he's paid for the remark. On the other hand we have Hanoi John, Turbin Durbin and Mad Dog Murtha who have slandered millions of American troops and they've never been as much as critized by the dim's. What the he**?
Talk about a bunch of cowards with a double standard. The dim's have it locked up. I would cheer if I saw one or all three ran over by an 18 wheeler.

Tom Blogical: Understand your first comment; the double-standard is so freaking obvious that only our trolls seem unable to acknowledge it. I just hate for our side to give them any ammunition whatsoever. I referenced your comment to keep my pledge to discontinue feeding our trolls; got so that whenever I'd type a certain three-letter name, I'd have to wash my keyboard with bleach. But I don't want them banned; their mendacity needs to seen.

My objections to Lott are two-fold. One, his stupid remarks at Strom's little shindig, but even more, his obstruction to controlling government pork. "Porkbusters" has quite the profile on him. Putting a big spender as a prominent face on the Republican party really isn't the sort of image they should be going for. After all, it part of the reason the GOP faithful were dispirited about this lot (pun intended) in the first place.

"Hey Big Spender!
Spend...a little time with me..."

Old Coot:

Agreed, I hate the ammunition Republicans are giving them also; which is the reason for my being pushed to consider the Libertarian party.

I have to say I thoroughly enjoy reading your comments here.