Posted on 12/07/2002 6:39:49 AM PST by BillCompton
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Blurted Out Conviction of the Week: Trent Lott
What's a little segregationism among friends?
By Timothy Noah
Posted Friday, December 6, 2002, at 1:54 PM PT
"I want to say this about my state: When Strom Thurmond ran for president we voted for him. We're proud of it. And if the rest of the country had of followed our lead we wouldn't have had all these problems over all these years, either."
âTrent Lott at Strom Thurmond's 100th birthday party, as reported Dec. 6 in ABC News' political Weblog, The Note. To watch a video of the festivities, click here.
"I want to tell you, ladies and gentleman, that there's not enough troops in the army to force the southern people to break down segregation and admit the Nigra race into our theaters, into our swimming pools, into our homes, and into our churches."
 âStrom Thurmond, then-governor of South Carolina, in a speech from his 1948 "Dixiecrat" presidential campaign. To hear an audio clip, click here.
Article URL: http://slate.msn.com/?id=2075151
What you say here is what you are. If the truth from Vacant Lott bothers you so much, perhaps the dems would welcome you with open arms, a lost brethern.
It was after Thurmond became a Republican was he swayed to the other side.
Abraham Lincoln was the one who freed the slaves. He is also the FOUNDER OF THE __REPUBLICAN__ PARTY. The KKK was based in the DEMO party. Been there, saw it first hand. The KK would send people around asking the whites if they were going to vote for Democrats. Answer NO you got a message, so the smart always answeder 'sure', then did whatever they wanted when in the booth, after making sure you were alone.
History never was a strong suit of the DUMPos, that is why they want to re-write it every chance they get. Erase their own past on the way.
snooker
If this new keyboard doesn't stop mis-spelling words, I am going to throw it out ... can't even write M$ ... penguins forever.
Up to here, it comes across as a self-deprecating joke, and the audience laughs throughout Lott's delivery.
And if the rest of the country had of followed our lead we wouldn't have had all these problems over all these years, either."
Lotts seems to be serious about this, and the audience becomes eerily quiet.
Lott inserted his big foot inside his dumb mouth, and everyone present knows it.
Good riddance!
Do you really believe that Trent Lott is a segregationist, or can you recognize a partisan cheap shot from the Slate when you see it?
Firstly Vacant Lott is a waste, a former democrat.
Secondly, you pick out one part of his stupid remarks to cast the entire utterance in evil. Reality is a harsh teacher Bill, we do have "the southern mentality leading this country whether you like it or not".
The Kennedys hated Jews, so do the Clintons, Hillary had nice language to fit them, yet there was not a ripple. I suspect if not a closet socialist, you do not accept reality.
If that is the case then it was a blindingly stupid thing to say. It is handing your political opponents a club to beat you and your party over the head with.
Frankly, if he said it not meaning it, he is amazingly negligent with the limelight he has been entrusted by his party, and this coupled with his poor performance as Majority Leader should be more than sufficient to bring his ouster.
And if he said it meaning it, which is how it comes across to me, then it is even worse.
So, then throw out all the former democrats in the republican party and what have you got?????
What would be left?????
The link to the C-SPAN video is provided by the initial poster toward the bottom of the article.
Drag the Real Player "buttton" to the center of the Play bar to catch the beginning of Lott's speech.
And I am not sure why you are attacking me for going after a guy you yourself call vacant Lott. Perhaps you are going after me because I am going after bigotry? I really don't care to find out.
What is this southern mentality you speak of, cynicom, leading the country? How does it fit in with Bush's agenda? Or that of Cheney? Or of other Senate leadership such as Frist and Santorum? Or of the House leadership?
At one time MLK considered Goldwater an ally. But after Goldwater's presidential campaign, we Republicans were reduced to getting single digit support from blacks, and we still are stuck there.
Son you babble on to such extremes. You are making a mountain out of a molehill for Vacant Lott.
Power is patched together out of strange bedfellows. Lott happens to be a real strange one, yet you want to throw him to the wolves. Do you see your friends in the dem party throwing out Ole Bobby Byrd??? Course not. Now try to equate that to what you want to do to poor ole Lott.
Wars are not fought by all heros and straight arrows, there are a lot of misfits in there, cowards, thieves and what have you. Political ranks are the same.
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