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I think Lott has a good voting record, as someone else on the forum has already said. I do NOT think he is an effective majority leader, but the retiring Jesse Helms thinks Lott is a "great" leader. He may know something that I don't.

I also don't think Lott should be removed from the leadership for a silly comment at a birthday party. I think everyone has at one time or another said something silly that he regrets, and perhaps something silly at a birthday party. To remove Trent under these circumstances would fall into the PC of the hard left.

Trent is forced out over this, it would be like the 1830 Democrat birthday gathering for the late Thomas Jefferson. At that birthday party, the President Jackson (TN) challenged Vice President Calhoun (SC) over the status of the federal union. In time, Calhoun resigned the vice presidency and became a Jackson critic, but all within the Democrat party. So it would be hard to imagine that Thurmond's birthday party would be relegated to such importance as the first of the Jefferson-Jackson dinner.

>>To remove Trent under these circumstances would fall into the PC of the hard left. <<

Either Lott is a segregationist or a witless buffoon. Neither one is what I want representing my party.

BTW-- If Lott would explain his remarks, that might be a step in the right direction.

It wasn't really a bad thing. In that election you had Harry Truman, anti-Commuinist but otherwise as liberal as the day is long; Tom Dewey, who was Rockefeller before Rockefeller; Henry Agarn Wallace, who would have been a Communist if he had been honest with himself (and whose running mate actually WAS a Communist); and Thurmond, the only candidate in the race who was taking a small government, states'rights position, opposing the Federalization of everything. I believe that is the correct position constitutionally and as a matter of philosophy.

If Thurmond had somehow been elected, we would most likely have a good bit less Federal government today and a lower tax burden, which would be a good thing.

And Jackson and Sharptongue are hardly the people who have any moral authority to go after anyone. Lott should remind himself that those who cry racism all the time are usually the biggest racists. I would say so, but Trent doesn't have enough spine to do it.