Did you expect Speaker Hastert to call Lott out in the open? Same can be said for the black gentleman.
All in all, it never ceases to amaze me how tone-deaf conservatives can be. Thurmond ran in 1948 as a member of what party? What plank did that party purpose? Lastly, how can one separate this from the man himself had he won the election in '48?
There are myriad issues with which one can praise Sen. Thurmond in his political career. But this wasn't one of them.
The "outrageus comments" were just that: Outrageous. It's not like my concerns are not founded upon history. Yet issuing a statement that the U.S. would have been better off had Thurmond won in '48 as a then unrepentant segregationist is puzzling. Even worse, conservatives who backed up Lott on these statements have proven to be rather alarming to me. Lott's statement, coupled with the grassroots conservatives who stood by his statement is a dagger in the back of we few American black conservatives (like mhking, mafree, Trueblackman, swheats, T Lady, and St. Clair Slim) who desire to move more and more American blacks towards our philosophies. Statements like Lott's unravel our efforts and make the damage harder and harder to recover from.
The backstabbing continues.
And today was a good day...