Trent Lott: 'Jeb Would Lose to Hillary'

[kpete]

And Trent Lott had some shocking words on "Hardball."

Lott was his usual outspoken self. Asked about Pres. Bush's comment about brother Jeb Bush's '08 potential, Lott: "Well, certainly you would say that about your own brother. Otherwise your mother might discipline you. Look, I don't think it's going to happen in 2008. Frankly, I don't think it's a good idea. I would not be supportive of Jeb Bush running for president. But I certainly understand why the president would say that about his own brother."

Asked if J. Bush could beat Hillary Clinton, Lott: "I don't think so, no." More: "I think the Republican nominee will eventually be able to win, will be able to beat Hillary Clinton or any Democrat."

MSNBC's Matthews: "Whoa, you're just revising and extending here, senator. You just said that Jeb would lose to Hillary."

Lott: "I don't think he'd be the best candidate for the nomination. You know, I've said that about and I'm not backing off of that."

http://hotlineblog.nationaljournal.com/archives/2006/05/hotline_after_d_27.html

[mdmc]

1. either way

America loses.:shrug: Bring it on:shrug:

[HughBeaumont]

2. END THE DYNASTIES on BOTH sides of the coin!!!

DAMN. 300 million people and the only ones qualified to run our country HAVE to sport a last name of either Bush or Clinton?

Small wonder why the American pop media cares so much about Britain's royal family. We pretty much have two ourselves.

[Leopolds Ghost]

20. Everything in America is Bigger, By God! Why settle for one Dynasty

When you could have two or three?

[HughBeaumont]

23. Why settle for 50 states when you can have just Texas and Florida!!!1!1!!

[Skidmore]

25. I second that emotion!!!

We are not a monarchy!

[PerceptionManagement]

3. When Trent and Jeb! become relevant, we are in trouble.

President Jeb!? Presendent Trent? Never in a million years.

[itzamirakul]

4. How CAN Jeb lose as long as we have

electronic voting machines that do not issue paper receipts? (definitely sarcasm meant here)

Those damned machines should either be destroyed with axes the way the feds used to destroy liquor stills and speakeasys or transformed into ATM-like machines that DO issue receipts.

[tanyev]

5. I think the Easter Bunny would lose to Santa.

[mccoyn]

16. Good response -nt

[still_one]

6. LOL, so now tweety has decided who the parties nominations

will be

you have to laugh at how out of touch these clowns are

[CoffeeCat]

7. I'm sick of the media furthering a Hillary nomination and WIN...

...The media assumes she will be the Dem nominee.

Why do they do this?

She's hated outside of Dem circles. Independents don't like her and the Republicans can't stand her. At least 40 percent of the Dem party dislikes her as much as the Republicans.

I'm really sick of her being the media's candidate.

I guess they figure---that if they proclaim Hillary the 08 Dem candidate enough times--people will eventually vote for her?

I am so not interested in Hillary.

[rucky]

8. Let's take strategy advice from Trent Lott!

Hillary '08. Woo-Hoo.

[bullwinkle428]

9. Lott can sure hold a grudge...I have to give him that much!

[bunkerbuster1]

24. My first thought too.

No love lost between Trent and the Bushes.

[havocmom]

10. In a fair election, Jeb would lose to my left shoe

or my dog

[Hubert Flottz]

11. There goes the front porch suckfests on Trent's new porch...

I thought cheerleaders all rooted for the team!

[DinahMoeHum]

15. Trent's "new porch" ain't gonna be there for a lo-n-n-n-g while. . .

Before and After Katrina:
http://www.sunherald.com/multimedia/sunherald/archive/baflash/lott.html

:evilfrown:

[0007]

12. Trent goes which ever way the wind blows and works hard at the same

time to sound so original and wise. He'll soon be the minority leader again.

[Inland]

14. Yep. Trent's ambition: minority leader. And revenge, of course.

He can't be leader unless he tears down the current leadership, and he can't tear down the current leadership and retain the majority. Short run, minority leader.

[WI_DEM]

13. I agree, but he would probably be the only one who she could beat

I think anybody could make easy work of a "Bush" in '08.

[AlGore-08.com]

17. Actually, I think HRC'd probably loose to Jeb!(Tm)

He's got more of a record than she has, the media likes him fairly well, and he's got a much better excuse for supporting Smirk and his policies than she does. If red state Americans can (supposedly) get over who HIllary is and who Hillary's married to, then why would blue state Americans reject Jeb(TM!) because of his brother? Are we less reasonable? Are we more blinded by partisanship?

Then there's the fact that Jeb(TM!) would carry Florida, and unless there's something I don't know about him, the red states...

Still, it is amusing to watch Trent Lott turn on the Smirk family like a cornered weasel. Can't wait to see him turn on Cat-Killer Frist for making a pig's breakfast of Trent's old job...

[dad]

19. L-O-S-E

One man's campaign to teach people to spell "lose" continues.

[Leopolds Ghost]

22. One Man! Discovered A Difference!

"In A Time. no... At A Blog!"

--Mr. Voice, fresh off Listerine B-)

[BurtWorm]

18. Jeb would lose to a ham sandwich at this point.

(Apologies to Will Pitt.) ;)

[Leopolds Ghost]

21. Then we don't need Hillary so long as we have a ham sandwich we can draft!

:evilgrin: