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You can remind them that Lott was 7 years old at the time Thurmond ran for president, that he wasn't referring to the segregationist policies of the Dixicrat platform (read Democrat platform) but rather to Thurmond's strong policies of defense and immigration - both of which are affecting us today and are problems probably the problems that Lott was referring to. You can remind them that their own party has a former KKK member - Byrd. That Jesse Jackson is an anti semite who constantly urges African Americans to vote Democrat. You can remind them that Clinton gave the Presidential Medal of Honor to Sen. Fulbright - a segregationist and racist - and called Fulbright his "mentor". See my editorial below to the Washington Times regarding that little matter. There's more you could remind your friends of, I'm sure.

he wasn't referring to the segregationist policies of the Dixicrat platform (read Democrat platform) but rather to Thurmond's strong policies of defense and immigration -

Please. All the Dixiecrats stood for was segregation. On every other issue the were the mirror of the extremely liberal, "New Deal" Democratic party. Why a guy who claims to be a conservative would support a anachronistic, liberal monstrosity like the Dixiecrat party is beyond me.

What you said is not a defense of that statement. The statement is outrageous and cannot be defended. The Strom Thurmond who ran for President in 1948 was a racist and the platform he ran on was a segregationist platform that was despicable. Are you familiar with what the South was like in 1948. People were being lynched because of their skin color. Simply put, anyone who would contend that he was proud of what Thurmond did in 1948 is not someone that I want as Senate Majority leader.

Moving on to defending what Lott said, in order to defend the statement you have to say that he didn't really mean what he said. You have to say that Lott just got caught up in the moment when he was saying how proud he was of Thurmond's run for the presidency in 1948. Such a defense seems ridiculous to me and more fitting of the people I saw defending Clinton during the 1990s.

You can remind them that Lott was 7 years old at the time Thurmond ran for president, that he wasn't referring to the segregationist policies of the Dixicrat platform (read Democrat platform) but rather to Thurmond's strong policies of defense and immigration - both of which are affecting us today and are problems probably the problems that Lott was referring to. You can remind them that their own party has a former KKK member - Byrd. That Jesse Jackson is an anti semite who constantly urges African Americans to vote Democrat. You can remind them that Clinton gave the Presidential Medal of Honor to Sen. Fulbright - a segregationist and racist - and called Fulbright his "mentor". See my editorial below to the Washington Times regarding that little matter. There's more you could remind your friends of, I'm sure.

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