[AntiGovernment]

Former House leader Lott pays a fairly innocuous compliment to a fellow southerner

Is it innocuous to say that the country would have been better off in 1948 with a radical segregationist as president? I understand he wanted to pay a compliment to a 100-year old man, but he could have complimented anything, yet he chose to compliment segregationism. Plus, it was the second time he had said that. Anyway, Lott was a worthless leader, so good riddance (not that things have gotten better).

[ClearCase_guy]

Thurmond ran for President of the United States in 1948 on the Dixiecrat (or States' Rights) ticket. Lott said: "I want to say this about my state: When Strom Thurmond ran for president, we voted for him. We're proud of it. And if the rest of the country had followed our lead, we wouldn't have had all these problems over all these years, either."

You (and the Media) see Thurmond as a racist son-of-a-gun and cannot see anything else about him. His issue was State Rights. It's a good issue. It was a good issue in 1948. It's a good issue in 2006. Lott was talking about States Rights but you heard "I hate black people". Get the wax out of your ears.

[tumblindice]

I believe he was just trying to compliment a fellow salon, but I'll concede your point: all conservatives are presumptive racists and deserve censure from the press, condemnation and then punishment from their peers on any questionable point of `political correctness', while Democrats should be able to express any irresponsible slur that comes to their minds without fear of recrimination because they were simply mistaken or misunderstood.
(Also, open the borders because to oppose doing so is racist. And Ann Coulter is very, very bad. And a racist.)

[tumblindice]

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