# Trent Lott **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [December 11, 2002, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trent-lott/142127 "2002-12-11T22:56:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 11
**Author:** ![The\_Flying\_Dutchman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/9fc348/32.png) [@The\_Flying\_Dutchman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Flying_Dutchman)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2002, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trent-lott/142127/201 "2002-12-21T22:16:14Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by december \* > \*\*I hate to defend the oleagenous senator, but according to Brink Lindsay, Lott spoke at exactly one CCC meeting, and he never wrote for their newsletter - they printed a syndicated column that he wrote in their newsletter, but it wasn’t written specifically for them. [Lindsay continues:](http://www.brinklindsey.com/archives/003060.php#003060) \*\* Look at your link once more **December**. Brink Lindsay never said what you claim he said. What he did say is > [@](#): > > he’s spoken at the organization’s meetings and written for its newsletter. In a 1992 speech before the group, he reportedly stated that “the people in this room stand for the right principles and the right philosophy.” ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2002, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trent-lott/142127/202 "2002-12-21T22:22:45Z")
No, elucidator, you didn’t just say that Buchanan is ‘extreme right’. You passed him off as representative of what the extreme right thinks. Given that he seems to be the ONLY member of the ‘extreme right’ who thinks this way, that’s a little disingenuous, no? ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2002, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trent-lott/142127/203 "2002-12-22T05:38:43Z")
Colour me confused, **Sam**. **elucidator** quoted from Pat Buchanan and then commented: > [@](#): > > Bush/Rove have severely pissed off the X-treme right. You then responded: > [@](#): > > No they haven’t. They’ve pissed off one old extremist who no longer has a position in the Republican party. > > Conservatives are ecstatic over Lott’s resignation. And then you list William F. Buckley, Jonah Goldberg, Charles Krauthammer, Thomas Sowell and Mona Charon as examples of conservatives who are calling for Lott’s resignation. So are you saying that Republicans generally are the “extreme right” and that these guys are extremists? I wouldn’t have thought so - I’d have called them conservatives, but not extreme right, unlike Buchanan. Frankly, I think you and **elucidator** are saying the same thing. 😕 😕 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2002, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trent-lott/142127/204 "2002-12-22T05:43:35Z")
But Buchanan in whatever category you like. The fact is, the right wing in general, from moderate to extreme, was apalled by what Lott said, and most wanted him gone. A handful of them are opportunists who wanted Lott gone simply because he is a liability to the Republicans. To write a message quoting Buchanan and then attribute his attitude to “the extreme right” is about as honest as quoting the nuttiest thing Al Sharpton said, and then saying, “even the most liberal Democrats are disagreeing.” ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2002, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trent-lott/142127/205 "2002-12-22T05:56:53Z")
Ah, but **Sammy** , the operative word is “extreme”, is it not? And you yourself identified Mr. Buchanan as being too extremely right for the Republicans. _I_ didn’t say “Republican”, you did. And, I do believe, the much admired Ms. Coulter has produced some drivel on the subject. Outside of those two, what other “exteme right” columnists and pundits do you know about? And in what way are they at variance with these opinions? That petard you are hoist upon is your own. I am merely an innocent stander-by. True, I find it chucklesome. But I had nothing to do with it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trent-lott/142127.md?page=10)