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Date: Jan 16, 2006

Trent or Not?

Date: Jan 16, 2006

Just tonite ONLY..1-16 wrote:

Think of all the contacts he has.

Spoken like a true good ol' boy. That's been one of the problems at USM for several generations.

Date: Jan 16, 2006

hasn't lott alluded to running for the sentate again?

Date: Jan 16, 2006

Just tonite ONLY..1-16 wrote:

DO WE WANT HIM TO FOLLOW SFT AS PREZ?

If Lott had a really good provost and deans he listened to on academic matters, he could be effective. In view of the current reality, he'd be a disaster.

Date: Jan 16, 2006

Why in the world would Senator Lott want to be President of USM? If he had some burning desire to be president of a university, he could easily go elsewhere. However, I agree that with a good provost etc he could be effective, because the President's job is to raise money and be a public face for the University. He could do that well, but again, why would he want to?

Date: Jan 16, 2006

LVN wrote:

Why in the world would Senator Lott want to be President of USM? . . He could do that well, but again, why would he want to?

LVN, It's probably for reasons similar to those of other national politicians became college or university presidents. Remember Dwight Eisenhower? There are many other politicians turned college presidents. It's sort of a tradition.

Date: Jan 16, 2006

I wasn't asking why he'd want to be a university president, I was asking why he would want to be president of USM, specifically. He would probably have other choices.

Date: Jan 16, 2006

And there would be plenty of time for golf. And he could easily commute to work from the coast. And he would see the edifice named in his honor everytime he strolled over to the East side of campus.

Date: Jan 16, 2006

LVN wrote:

I wasn't asking why he'd want to be a university president, I was asking why he would want to be president of USM, specifically. He would probably have other choices.

Unfortunately, and unfairly, his choices are probably a great deal more limited now than before his infamous speech in South Carolina.

Date: Jan 17, 2006

Why not Mississippi State?

Date: Jan 17, 2006

Perhaps wrote:

Why not Mississippi State?

Why not Delta State?

Date: Jan 17, 2006

Why not Harvard, Yale or Princeton?

Date: Jan 17, 2006

Maybe he'll be the successor to Judge Cooley.

Date: Jan 17, 2006

Why would USM want Trent Lott as president? He has no experience as a college administrator to my knowledge (see SFT). He is an OLE MISS alum. I'm sure the IHL would love it. He would oversee the finishing off of USM.

Date: Jan 17, 2006

If Trent Lott wants to become a university president, he will want to go to Ole Miss.

By the way, David Boren has been a terrific president of the University of Oklahoma. Of course, he was a Rhodes Scholar and an excellent writer.

Date: Jan 17, 2006

tuesday
Our dear Senator says that he will seek reelection. That takes him out of consideration for president of USM and MSU. Unless, some good democrat beats him in November.

Could Mabus, Musgrove, or Moore do it? Will any one of them have the courage to take on Trent and his backers?

Date: Jan 17, 2006

Senate Watcher wrote:

tuesday
Our dear Senator says that he will seek reelection. That takes him out of consideration for president of USM and MSU. Unless, some good democrat beats him in November.

Could Mabus, Musgrove, or Moore do it? Will any one of them have the courage to take on Trent and his backers?

I believe any of the above mentiioned democrats could beat Lott if voters looked at the issues. We need someone in the Senate that really wants to be there. Trent Lott is tired of it. Why else would he have wavered regarding his decision of whether to run or not? It certainly was not to keep any Republican from opposing him.

A fourth person that would be a good candidate is Gene Taylor. When you look at Taylor's record it has certainly been a better record than Lott's.

Date: Jan 17, 2006

yellow dog democrat wrote:

A fourth person that would be a good candidate is Gene Taylor. When you look at Taylor's record it has certainly been a better record than Lott's.

Betcha he sends you a Christmas card with a picture of his family on it each year. You and I must be on his "special" list.

Date: Jan 17, 2006

yellow dog democrat wrote:

A fourth person that would be a good candidate is Gene Taylor. When you look at Taylor's record it has certainly been a better record than Lott's.

At a recent "town meeting," Taylor said that he was not a Senator & didn't want to be a Senator. If I remember my politicianese, that's sort of like saying, "If Trent says he ain't running, I'll announce"...

Gene's kind of between a rock & a hard place. The Republicans hate him, because they can't seem to beat him, and the Democrats don't like him, because he tends to be pretty conservative. Doe that make him some sort of atavism to the days of liberal Republicans (can anyone say "Nelson Rockefeller?") & conservative Democrats?

Date: Jan 17, 2006

All I know is that most of the Republicans in my family vote for Gene.