Lott supported by some blacks in home state after remarks

Washington Times ^ | 12/15/02 | Janita Poe, COX NEWS SERVICE

[kattracks]

LULA, Miss.

[puroresu]

Maybe somebody here has the statistics (I don't), but my understanding is that Lott runs far better among black voters than most Republicans. Maybe I'm wrong, but I thought I saw somewhere that he routinely gets 20 to 25% of the black vote, while most Republicans fall below 10%. Does anyone here have the true numbers? I've also heard that Strom Thurmond always got more black votes than the average Republican.

[ambrose]

The answer is RINO Lott is an excellent pork barrel politician. Black people aren't voting for Lott because Lott longs for the return of the confederacy. He gets their votes because he brings home the bacon from Washington. Same reason all those Republicans voted for Tim Johnson in S Dakota...

[xm177e2]

I think you're wrong, he only got about 5% (I think that's what one recent thread said)

[puroresu]

I found it! He got 11% in the last election. Not too bad considering he had a black opponent. Bush got 9%. Cochran, Mississippi's other Senator, got about a third of the black vote, which is very high.

http://www.clarionledger.com/news/0212/14/m01a.html

[puroresu]

Well, it's the old liberal double standard. One of them can make an outright racist remark or recommend segregation for blacks, and it's okay. But if a Republican makes some comment that high strung people interpret as racist, we're told that even the possibility that hyper-sensetive people might think it's racist is enough to merit tossing the offender overboard. Since no one in the Republican Party advocates segregation for whites today, the rule there is to find out if they supported it 40 years ago, and then to go after them. Having purged the "racist" from the party, we can then announce that we have higher standards than the Democrats. After all, we punish members who aren't racists if the Democrats say they are, while the Democrats don't do anything to their members who really are racists. See how this "higher standard" thing works?

Besides, how can we demand that Bill Clinton be pushished for felony perjury and obstruction of justice when we allow Lott to make off-the-cuff comments to retiring colleagues at birthday parties?

Wasn't it Barney Frank who coined the term "appearance of impropriety"? Well, there you go! Lott has the "appearance of impropriety". He made a few remarks that no one paid a bit of attention to until Jesse Jackson, a racist, declared them to be "racist". Other racists like Sharpton joined in. As expected, a large chunk of the GOP, to avoid being called "racist", sided with the racists.

[A_perfect_lady]

I think you summed it up pretty well just now.

[TLBSHOW]

its telling that this thread got so little replys

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