Then your complaint is much different than what Lott's detractors are saying. In fact, some senators have already said that he could "win fogiveness" by supporting things like a minimum wage hike, housing subsidies, etc.
This isn't even about Lott anymore -- it's simply another tactic in pushing a left-wing agenda. At least they're consistent, though . . . It doesn't matter if you lynched black people in Alabama last week, as long as you toe the Democratic Party line this week.
Trent Lott can only win forgiveness by giving a speech talking about the gravity of what he said. He hasn't talked about what a Strom-Thurmond-lead U. S. would have been like. He should. He needs to tell us that he knows that it was a horrible thing to wish Thurmond on us-- that the consequences are unimaginably bad. Giving sop to the race pimps won't do it.
And if we take Thurmond at his word-- that he has left those views behind-- then he is glad he lost in 1948.