Lott demurs on Frist character question

[sabra]

http://www.thetimesonline.com/articles/2005/08/21/ap/headlines/d8c4cc8o0.txt

Lott demurs on Frist character question

Associated Press


WASHINGTON - When Sen. Trent Lott decides which GOP presidential candidate to support in 2008, it apparently will not be Sen. Bill Frist, the Tennessee Republican who Lott says betrayed him at a low moment in his political career.

Asked Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press" whether Frist, who challenged and succeeded Lott as Senate majority leader in 2002, has the character to be president, Lott paused before answering.

"I think I'd have to think about that," said Lott, R-Miss.

Lott said "a lot of good people out there" are thinking about whether to run and that "I probably would lean toward some of the others, let me just put it that way."

[charlyvi]

1. Wow.

They're beginning to eat their own. BWAHAHAHAHAHA.
Oh, and pot meet kettle!

[DemoTex]

2. Doesn't Lott have a book coming out soon?

That could be a real zinger!

[Iowa]

4. Yeah, I just read a review of his new book in the paper...

Get this... he blames Bob Dole for some of his problems. Apparently Dole swiped some of Lott's jokes at Thurmond's 100th birthday bash. Dole spoke before Lott, so when Lott went on, he was forced to improvise - and it was all downhill for him after that.

[mom cat]

7. Blaming Bob Dole...Now that is a new one!

:rofl:

[Iowa]

10. Yeah mom cat, I was laughing too!

It has the ring of truth - Dole swipes his jokes and dumbass is forced to wing it. And he's too dumb to self-censor in a situation like that; he needs cue cards. I can believe that.

To think Lott might still be majority leader if he wasn't so incredibly stupid, and if Dole wasn't such a cad.

:rofl:

[seemslikeadream]

9. On MTP: Trent Lott lets slip that Bush was planning the Iraq war in 2001?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4413897

[MissMarple]

3. I guess this is what bullying and back stabbing get you.

I think Lott knows where some of the bodies are buried. You'd think these guys would be on SOME kind of a learning curve. Hubris, thy name is GOP.

Now what was that old saying about pride? ;)

[Endangered Specie]

5. Ohhhh cock fight!

;)

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[daleo]

8. When one of these guys muses about another one's character

It probably means "watch it, or I will spill the beans about your mistress".

[Canuckistanian]

11. The hands are moving ever so slightly to the knives....

This should be good.

[DemGirl7]

12. I like it when Republicans fight with each other, lets get them on PPV

who would think would win, Dr.CatKiller or The Dixieland Confederate??

[GinaMaria]

13. How long before * yanks on Lott's choke chain?

Let's see if he back pedals this week.

[Canuckistanian]

14. Here kitty, kitty, kitty

[CHIMO]

15. An Interesting Letter

Are We Really Better Off Without Saddam?

Memo To: Sen. Trent Lott
From: Jude Wanniski
Re: All Things Considered, Maybe Not

Dear Trent…. I caught you on “Meet the Press” this morning and of course agree with you completely that your Republican colleague, Bill Frist, betrayed you back in 2002 when he announced he would run for Majority Leader at a point when you might have survived in that post. You may disagree, but I still think it was the White House that pulled the plug on you. It was not the President, but the neo-cons in the Vice President’s office. It was exactly at the time when they were planning to take the country to war in Iraq, to get rid of Saddam Hussein so they could play their imperial game. You should remember the memo I sent you on July 31 of ’02, ”Richard Perle’s Puppet Show.” I’m sure you received it, but here is how it opened:

I'm still expecting that you will be true to your word, Trent, and dissent from any plans to make war on Iraq unless you have a "smoking gun" that persuades you Saddam Hussein is a real threat to our national security. Please note Senator Biden announced BEFORE his Foreign Relations hearings this week that Saddam must be removed from power in Baghdad. It is of some comfort that the top brass at the Pentagon is telling the defense reporter of the Washington Post that Saddam is no threat and can be contained, as he has been since the Gulf War. But I am afraid President Bush still does not understand that he has become a marionette in Richard Perle's continuing puppet show in the Middle East. It really is up to you to do everything you can to break those strings as I do not see anyone else around who can do it. It had been my hope that Colin Powell as Secretary of State could outmaneuver Perle, who chairs the Defense Policy Board, and his gunslingers – Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, Condi Rice and their minions at the Pentagon and the National Security Council. Not so far.

To be honest, Trent, if I were you I would take stock of the situation and instead of throwing good money and blood after bad. I’m not saying “bad blood” to demean our armed forces, of course. I’m with Cindy Sheehan, who still doesn’t understand why we continue to send young men and women into the Iraqi meat grinder. She suspects it is because President Bush and his team simply think because our government has invested so much in Iraq that we might as well throw a few thousand more into the maw and hope it all turns out right in the end.

The fact that I’ve known you for 35 years, back to your earliest days in the House, and that I’ve never steered you wrong with my advice, should count for something, shouldn’t it. There was a time when I really believed you were presidential timber, back when you spoke your mind and it was always nice to hear what it was that was on your mind. The fact that you won a majority of the black vote in Mississippi in your first re-election bid as a Republican was simply astonishing. How insane it was that you would be ousted as Majority Leader because of a joke you told at a party for Strom Thurmond. You’re a good man, Trent. You could never be otherwise, but you should clear your head about why you were bounced as Majority Leader. It wasn’t Bill Frist. It was Richard Perle and his puppets, including the Veep.

http://www.wanniski.com/

[Betty]

16. Lott commenting on "character"...

somehow that seems just...lame. All the things that make Frist evil are things that Lott probably apporves of. He's just pissed that Frist got his job.

[davidinalameda]

17. Lott Demurs on Frist Character Question

http://nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Lott-Frist.html


When Sen. Trent Lott decides which GOP presidential candidate to support in 2008, it apparently will not be Sen. Bill Frist, the Tennessee Republican who Lott says betrayed him at a low moment in his political career.

Asked Sunday on NBC's ''Meet the Press'' whether Frist, who challenged and succeeded Lott as Senate majority leader in 2002, has the character to be president, Lott paused before answering.

''I think I'd have to think about that,'' said Lott, R-Miss.

:rofl: