Posted on 08/25/2015 11:04:12 AM PDT by massmike
Ohio Gov. John Kasich collected another endorsement from a prominent Southern Republican on Tuesday. Former Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott pledged his support to the governor, and will serve as a national co-chair on Kasich's campaign.
Lott, 73, spent 35 years in Congress from Mississippi's delegation, and rose through the ranks of GOP leadership in the Senate to secure the top spot. His colleagues ousted him from that position after he made comments praising former South Carolina Sen. Strom Thurmond, who ran as a "Dixiecrat" for president in 1948.
Thurmond's states' rights platform challenged the civil rights movement of the mid-20th century. At Thurmond's 100th birthday party, Lott reportedly said Mississippi voted for Thurmond, remained proud of its vote and the country would have been better off had others done the same. He later apologized.
A few years after Lott's colleagues pushed him out of the top spot, they lifted him back into party leadership as the Senate's Republican whip.
"Trent is a friend whom I respect and whose leadership has been of enormous benefit to our country," Kasich said in a statement on Tuesday. "He's got a keen policy mind with experience across the full scope of federal issues and political wisdom that's been honed in the trenches. I'm humbled that he's on our team and excited about the work we're going to be able to do together to win this race and begin lifting up our nation for everyone."
When asked about the issue of race and the Black Lives Matter protests earlier this year, Kasich said, "All lives do matter," but emphasized that, "Black lives matter, especially now."
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Trent comes out of his closet.. KASICH?.... LoL..
Trent Lott’s endorsement means as much to me as Haley Barbour’s. If either of them were to endorse someone I happened to be for or was considering to support I would have to take another hard look, I must have missed something important.
Kiss of Death for Miss. GOPee to endorse you.
GOPe RINOs gargling each others’ bath water. They’re worse than the Marxist ‘RATS because they pretend to be something they’re not *all* the time (conservative). At least the Marxist ‘RATS only pretend to be “moderates” during election season.
Trent Lott? That reminds me. The Republican Party has been cursed with ninnies for a long time. And pundits keep wondering why Trump is doing so well. Look here, folks. Mush endorsing mush. That’s why Trump is doing so well.
Well! That oughta just about sink John Kasich!!
You have to feel sorry for poor John Kasich. With all of his policy woes and polling worries, Now he has to explain Trent Lott endorsing him. Trent Lott? Who’s next? Thad Cochran?
Poor John.
Ouch!
Who?
Kiss of death, couldn’t happen to a nicer Cheap Labor Express candidate
At one point I had some respect for Haley Barbour
but after the stuff he pulled to get Thad Cochran
re-elected-puff gone in an instant!
Even back then, Trent couldn't decide who's side he was on. Cowboy or Injun?
LMAO!
Can’t fix stupid.
Trent who or Trent what? A lott of shiite that’s what.
So Kasich is running as an outsider, yea right. He's as establishment as they come.
Haley Barbour is big time for open borders and amnesty, for big bucks. He was Mexico’s lobbyist.
Another reason I lost all my respect for him!
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