This is what we get for letting the race pimps run Lott out of office. I don't like Lott, I hated his lack of strong leadership and principle and his statement at Strom's party was insipid, but the reaction by the press, the libs and the huslers was way overblown. The reaction of consevatives was disgusting, and now we need to learn to like it because we're going to see it non stop between now and 2004!
Whoever is the Republican leader in the Senate is in for a major Opposition Research operation, headed by Carville and those stooges.
By this time next month, public opinion polls will reflect that Bill Frist is as bad a "racist" as Trent Lott ever was.
Just wait: The questions are already rolling out of the mouths of the usual suspects: "Isn't it true that the Republican party has a serious problem with minorities? Isn't it true that Republican opposition to expanding affirmative action shows that they are the party of racism and bigotry?"
YaddaYadda.
Yeah, Lott is partly at fault, but the story actually didn't get legs until about three or four days after the Thurmond birthday party, when some "civil rights leaders," having received their marching orders from the DNC, began calling up reporters and pointing it out.
The press started the ball rolling and the Republican Keystone Kops have done most of the dirty work after that.