Unfortunatlely, this is politics and these mistakes of unclarity are fatal when it comes to being a party leader of the Republicans since the Republicans must hold to a higher standard because of the liberal media. Someone else should be majority leader for the good of the party and therefore the country.
Funny how the Dems and the liberal media are so dumb as to always attack the Republicans that are kindest to them. Lott saved Clinton and gave the Dems power when he didn't have to. Daschle knows that but all the other Dems and the liberal media are only thinning the Republican herd in this case and will only make the Republicans stronger as they have for 30 years with these kinds of situations. Meanwhile, true racists and idiots such as Hillary, Byrd, Jackson, Sharpton, etc., will continue to be the spokespeople for the Dems. When your enemy wants to hand himself, feed him the rope. Dems have nothing to gain because they already have the black vote, Republicans have nothing to lose because blacks show no willingness to get off the Dem plantation any time soon. If Lott is not majority leader, this'll be forgotten in two years and we'll have a more conservative Senate.
Well stated and I couldn't agree with you more.
From Associated Press (EXCERPT):
"Senate Republican leader Trent Lott tried to help Bob Jones University keep its federal tax-exempt status despite the school's policy prohibiting interracial dating two decades before his recent comments stirred a race controversy.
"Racial discrimination does not always violate public policy," Lott, then a congressman from Mississippi, wrote in a 1981 friend of the court brief that unsuccessfully urged the U.S. Supreme Court to stop the Internal Revenue Service from stripping the university's tax exemption.
Lott expresses regret for remarks; court filing from 1981 surfaces