Lott's a moron. He single handedly gave RATS an issue. And he's the next GOP Senate Majority Leader?
Twenty-two years ago, Trent Lott, then a House member from Mississippi, told a home state political gathering that if the country had elected segregationist candidate Strom Thurmond to the presidency "30 years ago, we wouldn't be in the mess we are today." The phrasing is very similar to incoming Senate Majority Leader Lott's controversial remarks at a 100th birthday party for Thurmond last week..
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37288-2002Dec10.html
Lott is a super MORON