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How is praising his segregationist run for President as a Democrat - a platform AND a party Strom is supposed to have renounced - "being nice"?

He wasn't praising his segregationist run for President; he was praising Strom. But, you're trying to get in his head, which is what thought police do.

He wasn't praising his segregationist run for President; he was praising Strom.

Sorry, but you're wrong. I don't have the quote handy, but I'd say you're the one trying to get in to Trent's head. The plain sense of his statement is that he thinks it would have been good if Strom had won the Presidency in 1948. If he just wanted to praise the man, he could have said that he wished Strom had run - and won - in, say, 1976 or 1996. Or just a generic "you'd have made a great President, Strom." Trent went out of his way to SPECIFICALLY bring up and then praise Strom's '48 candidacy.

I've come to the conclusion that we're screwed. Completely screwed. Whether Lott stays or goes. Personally, I still want him gone, since I'd rather be screwed without him as the ML than with him. And I blame Lott for this, not Bush or anyone else.

Face it, the Dems and the press beat the GOP again - if Lott stays, as the Dems increasingly want, he will be so weak on the GOP agenda and overly open to the liberal "civil rights" agenda. He has shown he is willing to implode the party and abandon any past issues to keep his job. If Lott goes, the Dems still have the leverage to now go after any other GOP leader with the same charges of racism. The Senate may actually switch sides. In addition, the GOP is fractured over this, with some traditional Bush-backers now attacking him for "disloyalty", and the Senate GOPers launching various unseemly power struggles.

And I don't reserve blame only for Lott here, this is what the country-clubbers in the GOP get for anointing such a fool as leader to begin with. I'm just sick, angry, and depressed over this whole affair, as I'm sure most conservatives are. Chalk one up for the liberals and their propaganda machine.