Bush has not been subjected to the Lott treatment. There are various types of smears, and those directed at Bush are the usual clumsy efforts. Since Bush has repeatedly given lip service to the sort of campus values that the Left was counting on in the Lott gambit, there would have been no point.
But the Lott gambit was a probe. If they hadn't found something useful from Lott, they would have picked someone else. The possibilities are limitless, because they are now capitalizing on the conditioned guilt reflexes that have been instilled in many educated Americans, and know that certain probes will always evoke a conditioned response. No person, cooly reflective, would see any issue at all in a flight of fancy, about an event 54+ years ago, at a birthday party, honoring a Centenarian. No this was a probe, to see how the Republicans would respond to an off the wall attack, and they hit a raw nerve, when all of the inside the beltway types went defensive.
As for your other comments? Well, my friend, time will tell. Let us revisit this subject, a year from now. For anyone else, who wants a hardly panicy analysis of the considerations involved, in this ongoing and still developing event: The Trent Lott Affair--Anatomy & Context Of A Smear.
William Flax
Bush has been subject to far worse. Who can forget the leftist race-baiting ad showing the pickup truck dragging death of James Byrd which blamed Bush for supposedly not supporting Hate crimes legislation.
But it didn't work.
But the Lott gambit was a probe. If they hadn't found something useful from Lott, they would have picked someone else. The possibilities are limitless, because they are now capitalizing on the conditioned guilt reflexes that have been instilled in many educated Americans, and know that certain probes will always evoke a conditioned response. No person, cooly reflective, would see any issue at all in a flight of fancy, about an event 54+ years ago, at a birthday party, honoring a Centenarian. No this was a probe, to see how the Republicans would respond to an off the wall attack, and they hit a raw nerve, when all of the inside the beltway types went defensive.
Oh please. You are over-analyzing all this. You sound like the reverse version of the "vast right wing conspiracy". The Demonrat liberals are not nearly as sophisticated as you suggest here.
They saw an opportunity in Lott's foolish statements and they jumped on it. They didn't have to "probe" anything.
Lott embarrassed himself and the Republican party, and didn't belong in a position of leadership. Period.