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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.