The Dixiecrat Platform

The Smoking Gun ^ | August 14, 1948 | The States Rights Democratic Party

[GraniteStateConservative]

Just so people here understand that Thurmond's run for the White House had nothing to do with lowering taxes or reducing government spending.

[inkling]

Does anyone actually think Lott has put this behind him? Tomorrow there will be another example of his "racism." Then another the day after that. Then another and another.

And now Lott has handed over his personal problem to the entire Republican Party. The GOP Senators have given him a pass for applauding the Dixiecrats. Therefore the GOP is now the party that will actively abide racist sentiments.

All the work we have done to prove we aren't racist has been set aside to save this feckless, vacillating, spineless, toupeed mediocrity.

We are the stupid party. We will suffer dearly for the hubris and selfishness of Trent Lott. And all we will get in return is Lott's severe pandering to the Black Caucus to "prove" he isn't racist. I hope you Lott-backers like Affirmative Action.

[GWfan]

Say hello to the new senate majority leader, I mean the new and former senate majority leader--Tom Daschle. You are fighting to lose the senate without an election. I will not listen to you b!tch once the senate has gone back to dem hands. Then you will see what gridlock really is.

Get ready for some more race-baiting, coming your way thanks to people like...MonroeDNA!

[ChadGore]

I care.

Lott needs to groom a new majority leader to focus on 04.

[hinckley buzzard]

"Many people here believe that the states have the right to tell people what they can put in their body..."

Ah, Geez. Read the XXI*st Amendment.

The XIV*th Amendment squelches your desire to have states tell people who they can and cannot marry, since marriage in the US is a matter of civil law regarding life, liberty and property, among other things.

Grow up, fer chrissakes.

[libbylu]

geez, give it up. lott isn't a bigot. who cares if he is? 54 years ago, you'd think he had just voted in that race. in my view, he was talking to strom like men in the south do, showing respect and razzing at the same time. it's a shame a person has to guard every word they say, especially when they just aren't bad people.
and please tell me, are people who accuse people of being racist any better than the people they are accusing?????

[BunnySlippers]

I agree. It's time for Lott to go. He's a distinct liability.

[GWfan]

He is not a bigot. He said a bone-headed comment. Lott was what, 7 years old in 1948? You are GIVING the senate back to the dems by demanding Lott resign.

Tell me, who will be the next person to be called a 'bigot'? I know it won't be a dem. This is an exercise in winning the election Nov. 5th and losing the senate without another election. Keep it up, you could have us Hillary by 2004.

[muawiyah]

Section three looks like a rebuke of Harry Truman's 1947 demand that subversives in the Army be ferreted out and listed.

Interesting to see Liberals so opposed to the Dixiecrat platform while at the same time they are still angry about Harry's lists (which they blame on Tailgunner Joe!

[Ol'Grey Head]

Everyone knows this is just "I gotta" demogogery. What a person says spontaneously should NEVER be used to judge them, it is insidious and mean to do so. The only way to judge Lott is by his record over the last 15 to 20 years. Hopefully that record is solid or why was he ever given the power he has. We live in a society which has replaced logic, science, and thought with superstition, dogma, and fear.

[inkling]

He is not a bigot. He said a bone-headed comment. Lott was what, 7 years old in 1948? You are GIVING the senate back to the dems by demanding Lott resign.

I have never seen one Freeper ask Lott to leave the Senate. We just don't want him leading our party. We will retain a 2-vote majority.

However. If we keep Lott as our leader, we will most likely lose the Senate and the House in 2004. It's not just the minority vote. White, middle-of-the-road voters will not support a party they perceive to be tolerant of racism.

Why on earth is Lott -- who has brought this party nothing but failure and incompetence -- worth squandering our fragile majority? Especially since he will spend all his time pandering to the Maxine Waters' of the world?

[muawiyah]

Actually, I am in favor of mandatory INTER-RACIAL marriage. Do that for four or five generations and we'll get rid of the really sharp and divisive so-called "racial" issues in this country.

Ultimately that's the only way to resolve them - in bed, and the sooner we start the better!

[inkling]

LOL! Great point!

[EdJay]

"You DO understand that this campaign was waged in 1948, don't you? You are also aware, I assume that we are nearing the end of the year 2002. What is your obsession with this matter?"

I can't speak for Granite State, to whom the above comment is apparently addressed -- but I think most of us do understand that. That's why we can't figure out why Trent Lott thought fit, in 2002, to endorse the principles of 1948 -- or even to appear to endorse those principles. I don't think it's a slip of the tongue. I think it's what Lott reallly believes. It's not like Lott has not said similar things already. Back in 1980 he was claiming we'd be better off if the Dixiecrats had won in '48.

The excuse I've most often heard this time around is that he was simply honoring an old man who's nearing the end of a distinguished career. But he could easily have expressed appreciation for Thurmond (who's done many things since his Dixiecrat candidacy) without invoking the ghosts of segregationism past. So I must conclude he meant what he said. To say otherwise is to imply that he's a fool, which he is not.

And if anybody's "obsessing" about this issue, it's Lott and these Southern Partisan types, who simply can't get over their noble and beloved "Lost Cause." Really, it is past time for OUR party, the true Republican Party, the Grand Old Party of Abraham Lincoln, to give up its latter day Confederate wing.

[GraniteStateConservative]

I care if the guy representing my party in the Senate as its leader is a bigot. Why didn't he talk about how proud he was that Thurmond repudiated those views from back then? That would have been an honorable tribute.

"Strom was a segregationist once and once I was, too. We have both come to realize that every day that our nation was segregated was a day our nation was unfaithful to our founding ideals." Imagine if he'd have said that. What a powerful statement that would have been.

Yes, racists are worse than people who call racists racists.

[GraniteStateConservative]

Lott "spontaneously" said the same damn thing 22 years ago. He probably said it in college, too, when he acknowledges that he was a segregationist. He probably has said it many times behind closed doors, too.

[GWfan]

Get real. Lott will NOT be helpful to a party that has abandon him in his hour of need. The senate has slipped through our fingers yet once again. HE IS HUMAN people!! He said a few things he had not thought out at a BIRTHDAY PARTY!! He is NOT a racist, not a bigot. He is human and he messed up. He apologized a million times and you STILL WON'T LET IT GO.

Never have I seen so many idiots on FR. You people are a bunch of morons, this has nothing to do with racism, it is all about the dems last, desperate power grab after they LOST on Nov. 5th.

WHY ARE YOU SO BLIND??

When he leaves the senate, guess who gets to appoint the new senator from Mississippi??? That's right, a democrap.

[Howlin]

You DO understand that this campaign was waged in 1948, don't you?

Then why was Trent Lott talking about it just last Saturday?

[GraniteStateConservative]

Do you refuse to acknowledge the fact that he didn't JUST say this at a birthday party in 2002? Do you refuse to acknowledge that Lott admitted that he was a segregationist in college?

[inkling]

Really, it is past time for OUR party, the true Republican Party, the Grand Old Party of Abraham Lincoln, to give up its latter day Confederate wing.

What I don't understand is why Lott said what he did. On some level he must have thought it politically beneficial to give a sop to a pro-segregation lobby. Does he actually think such a lobby exists and that it is a sizable group? How lost in the past do you have to be to think that?

I am not here to say if he is or isn't a racist in his heart. But anyone who says what he says and thinks as he does shouldn't be the public face of the 2002 GOP. We're going to pay dearly for his ignorance and get zero in return.

[GWfan]

If Lott steps down from majority leader, why should he stay in the senate?? If he is too prejudiced to be the majority leader, isn't he also too prejudiced to be a senator???

Wanna guess what Jesse and Al will say?? They want him to step down because a dem in Mississippi can then appoint a new DEM senator.

POOF! What fragile majority? Say hello to majority leader senator Daschle.