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*********************************** Goin' for the Record "Statisticians believe Trent Lott is now on track to break Bill Clinton's single-season record for public apologies." - Columnist Ann Coulter *********************************** Misguided Ideological Purity? "The GOP went wrong in 1964 when Barry Goldwater, no racist, tragically voted against the Civil Rights Act out of misguided ideological purity." - Former Bob Dole running mate Jack Kemp *********************************** Barry Right, Jack Wrong "In 1964, Goldwater told the nation that the latest civil rights act was a mirage, that 'no law can make one person like another if he doesn't want to. ' Although he had a strong record as a desegregationist in Arizona and was committed to integration in his personal life, Goldwater knew that the public accommodation clauses in the act would 'destroy the rights of some under the false banner of promoting the civil rights of others.' As governmental mandates pile up on businesses, we see that Goldwater was right." - Tom Jenney, The Goldwater Institute, 11/4/02 ************************************ If Goldwater Had Been Elected in 1964, Lott Wouldn't Be Having All These Problems... "(Barry) Goldwater was no racist; early in his career as a Phoenix city council member, he aggressively supported local civil rights ordinances. But as his conservatism deepened, he grew first skeptical and then fearful about the use of government for social engineering. 'You cannot pass a law that will make me like you -- or you like me,' Goldwater told one rally. 'That is something that can only happen in our hearts.' "He understood, too, that government-mandated affirmative action was merely the flip side of segregationist racialism: 'It reintroduces through the back door the very principle of allocation by race that makes compulsory segregation morally wrong and offensive to freedom.' And, that, to Barry Goldwater, was the bottom line. 'Our aim, as I understand it, is neither to establish a segregated society nor to establish an integrated society,' he said. 'It is to preserve a free society.' " - Columnist Glenn Garvin, ReaonOnline, March 2002 *********************************** Whiteys, Hold Your Tongues "In the old feudal system, there were no First Amendment rights. The legally privileged were free to engage in hate speech and to verbally harass others, but any commoner who replied in kind could be sued or have his tongue cut out. "Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott still has his tongue, but just barely. He used his tongue in a way that gave offense to the new aristocrats. Black Americans have been granted the right to be offended by any words they don't like and to extract retribution. The offending speaker finds himself forced into contrition and humiliating apologies. Often the penalty is a destroyed career." - Columnist Paul Craig Roberts *********************************** First Black President Weighs In "Former President Bill Clinton said yesterday incoming Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott's remarks about Sen. Strom Thurmond are just a public manifestation of a Republican strategy to suppress black voters and appeal to whites on a racial basis. " 'He just embarrassed them by saying in Washington what they do on the back roads every day,' Mr. Clinton told CNN outside a business luncheon he was attending. 'How do they think they got a majority in the South anyway?' he said. 'I think what they are really upset about is that he made public their strategy.'" - Washington Times, 2/19/02 *********************************** The First Black Senator "(After) watching Black Entertainment Television early this week, this author has had a change of heart about the Mississippi Senator. It seems the 'Magnolia State' now has its first black Senator - because Trent Lott is now toast - burnt toast. "...If this writer had a chance to do so, I would ask Trent Lott only one question - the question many Republican voters should be asking: '...Senator Lott, if you really think segregation is immoral and shouldn't be tolerated in today's society, why did you all but sanction a segregationist policy by being a guest on Black Entertainment Television?' "See the hypocrisy here? There is no White Entertainment Television, and there isn't another medium in the country that has such a closed door policy regarding races. Did the Senator even know that BET isn't even owned by black people any more?" - J.J. Johnson, publisher, SierraTimes.com, 12/19/02 *********************************** BET Interview Made Bad Situation Worse "In his interview Monday on Black Entertainment Television, Mr. Lott called the controversy a 'wake-up call,' talked of a bipartisan 'task force of reconciliation,' came out for 'across the board' affirmative action and savaged his own lawmaking decisions with the bizarre claim that 'my actions, I think, don't reflect my voting record.' "Read between the lines: He will now take his cues from the Democrats and their allies like the NAACP and the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights. Thus the original tragedy - remarks that certainly sounded racist at Strom Thurmond's birthday bash - is compounded by his new posture as groveler-in-chief of the Republican Party." - Abigail Thernstrom, Republican appointee on the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, New York Times *********************************** Forever Compromised "(Trent Lott) is now so politically compromised that in his Black Entertainment Television interview he declared 'across the board' support for affirmative action, vowed to rethink his support for Judge Charles Pickering, and agreed to a 'civil rights tour' with Rep. John Lewis. A vacuum of white guilt as wide as the Grand Canyon has opened in him, and he will never again see civil rights, welfare, judgeships or education with a clear eye." - Columnist Shelby Steele, Wall Street Journal *********************************** Pander Left, Abandon Right "...Trent Lott's support within his party is melting away, and right now he is nowhere near the 26 votes from GOP Senate colleagues he needs to retain his job. . . . It is Mr. Lott's failure to be more than a deal-making legislative tactician that has ensured conservatives have few qualms about abandoning him in the wake of his racial remarks. . . . Conservatives are outraged at the damage Mr. Lott has caused to their efforts to reach out to minority communities and advocate principled race-neutral policies. Mr. Lott's outrageous pandering to his critics has only stoked the anger and disappointment." - John Fund's Political Diary, 12/19/02 *********************************** Heavy Price to Pay for Defending Lott "The media furor and frenzy may have caused some Republican leaders to instinctively come to Mr. Lott's defense against overblown charges. Moreover, a sense of decency probably made them reluctant to publicly humiliate the man by stripping him of his majority leadership position. But, make no mistake, the Republicans have already paid a price, and it's only the down payment. That Mr. Lott did not step aside himself is a greater disqualification for leadership than anything he said." - Columnist Thomas Sowell *********************************** Left Salivates Over New Opportunities "Whether Trent Lott stays or goes, Democrats and civil rights groups see his apparent nostalgia for a segregated past as a golden opportunity to make some legislative gains. . . . Democrats say issues that Lott might help them push include an expansion of hate crimes legislation to cover sexual orientation, which Republicans blocked this year; an increase in the minimum wage; national legislation banning racial profiling; reform of death penalty laws, which activists say are used against minorities more than anyone else; and AIDS funding, especially for Africa. Consideration of any of those issues previously would have been unlikely in a Republican-controlled Congress. Democrats also hope to bring up more affirmative action programs, which Lott said he supports." - Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 12/19/02 ************************************ Long Savings on Long Distance! 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