[Poohbah]

How very liberal of you to put words in Senator Lott's mouth! Your analogy is a complete and total misfire, and I think you know it.

Did Senator Lott say that "resumption of segregation would have prevented so many of the problems we've experienced since then"?

No, he did not.

Did I say he did, or did you strategically move the quotation marks around to distort what I said? (Hint: the correct answer is the latter one.)

Case closed.

Yup. Case closed. You have to misrepresent what I said to make your point, therefore, I claim the win.

His expressed opinion about Senator Thurmond was no more racist than my expression of admiration about the genius of one of our founders.

The only significant difference between the Democrat and Dixiecrat platforms was the issue of segregation. That is the platform Thurmond was running on in 1948. Either Lott is actually in agreement with that platform, or he's too much of a blithering idiot to be trusted with anything important (the latter is my opinion).

[puroresu]

I wrote: Did Senator Lott say that "resumption of segregation would have prevented so many of the problems we've experienced since then"? No, he did not.

You wrote: Did I say he did, or did you strategically move the quotation marks around to distort what I said? (Hint: the correct answer is the latter one.)

The quote I provided is the proper analogy to your assertion, because the analogy you provided was incorrect to the situation.

I wrote: Case closed.

You wrote: Yup. Case closed. You have to misrepresent what I said to make your point, therefore, I claim the win.

It really did go over your head, didn't it?

I wrote: His expressed opinion about Senator Thurmond was no more racist than my expression of admiration about the genius of one of our founders.

You wrote: The only significant difference between the Democrat and Dixiecrat platforms was the issue of segregation. That is the platform Thurmond was running on in 1948. Either Lott is actually in agreement with that platform, or he's too much of a blithering idiot to be trusted with anything important (the latter is my opinion).

You persist in this nonsense, don't you?

I stated an outright admiration for James Madison. Lott praised a fellow politician after he delivered a fiery speech and, later, at his 100th birthday.

If you don't see where this is headed, you're blind. In 30 years someone praising George Washington will be deemed unfit for office.