{"id":1582,"date":"2006-11-16T17:03:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-16T17:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2006\/11\/mel-martinez-and-trent-lott.html"},"modified":"2006-11-16T17:03:00","modified_gmt":"2006-11-16T17:03:00","slug":"mel-martinez-and-trent-lott","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2006\/11\/mel-martinez-and-trent-lott.html","title":{"rendered":"Mel Martinez and Trent Lott"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Mirengoff at <a href=\"http:\/\/powerlineblog.com\/archives\/015920.php\">Powerline<\/a> has a positive take on the appointment of Mel Martinez and the election of Trent Lott:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Many conservative bloggers seem unwilling to entertain the thought that it may be reasonable to have an Hispanic Senator as a public face of the party, while politicos at the RNC do the nuts-and-bolts work. Or that the advantages of having a procedural wizard in the number two Senate minority job may outweigh a few bad headlines and a little digust two years before the next election.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(<a href=\"http:\/\/hughhewitt.townhall.com\/g\/b38ffbaf-e0e6-4305-9add-93cdd8e9fccb\">via<\/a>)<br \/>\nYeah, Lott knows what he&#8217;s doing procedurally but he compromises Republican principles too much.  I want more of an ideologue in the whip position.  I&#8217;m putting my hope in McConnell to keep him in line.<br \/>\nAnd as to Martinez, I had thought that as well, that&#8217;s why I wasn&#8217;t surprised that he was selected.  Though, I&#8217;m not too thrilled that he won&#8217;t be an advocate for Republican principles.   We need someone out on the Sunday morning shows telling everyone how great the economy is thanks to the President&#8217;s tax cuts and how we need a strong defense and how the Democrats are looking to cut and run and how Pelosi doesn&#8217;t even think we&#8217;re at war, etc.<\/p>\n<div class=\"tag_list\">Tags: <span class=\"tags\"><a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Mel+Martinez\" rel=\"tag\">Mel Martinez<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Trent+Lott\" rel=\"tag\">Trent Lott<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Republicans\" rel=\"tag\">Republicans<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Senate\" rel=\"tag\">Senate<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/minority+whip\" rel=\"tag\">minority whip<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Mirengoff at Powerline has a positive take on the appointment of Mel Martinez and the election of Trent Lott: Many conservative bloggers seem unwilling to entertain the thought that it may be reasonable to have an Hispanic Senator as a public face of the party, while politicos at the RNC do the nuts-and-bolts work.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":307,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-under-the-sun"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - 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