[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.

[AntiGovernment]

"We wouldn't have had all these problems." Okay. What problems could have been avoided by electing Thurmond (a DEMOCRAT)? I'm all for state's rights, but Thurmond was a pretty bad racist.