When you screw up, you eat the worms, and you say you were wrong and that you're sorry.
I have gotten myself into positions that, on a personal level, were far more fraught with disaster than what Lott's playing with now...and a quick, prompt, and unconditional apology allowed others to forgive my multitude of sins.
Well he sure didn't "offend" me. And what do you want? Lott to roll a peanut across the street with his nose while on his knees?
"When you screw up, you eat the worms, and you say you were wrong and that you're sorry."
Again, it is arguable that Lott has done something sooo heinous. Try and re-focus. It's become a freakin' circus only for the sake of energizing the moribund Democratic agenda...
Even in Nazi Germany, they did not crucify one for expressing a viewpoint on an historic question, which had nothing to do with Hitler's current program. One could probably have expressed the view in 1938 that Kaiser Wilhelm I should or should not have done something in 1884, without fearing the Gestapo. But you, my arrogant friend, aspire to censor what opinions today's generation of politicians may have on what happened in 1948, and the consequences. And what is your justification? You think that the political enemies of the man you would shoot down, will make hay with his views.
Well they have made hay, all right. But it is from the reactions of so-called Conservatives, bent suddenly on internecine warfare to appease an absurd fantasy. That fantasy is that the public--the objective or not already committed public--will somehow be inflamed because one Senator expressed admiration for what another Senator did 54 years ago. Do you have any idea how silly that is? The people making all that noise about their outrage are the already committed verbal warriors of the Left. They are not people who were on our side who have suddenly shifted.
The correct response should have been to laugh in their faces and then denounce their irrationality for thinking the American people are so stupid that they would be taken in by this sort of contrived controversy.
Stop playing into the hands of propagandists who want to undermine your heritage by dividing its defenders on stupid diversionary issues.
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