[Sabertooth]

Everybody knows what he was referring to with Thurmond's 1948 campaign, and it wasn't segregation.

Then maybe he should have spelled it out a little better, since everyone knows that the point of Thurmond's Dixiecrat campaign was, in fact, segregation.

Everyone also ought to know that there is simply no point in trying to put a positive spin on the Strom Thurmond of 1948.

[Torie]

The Dixiecrats were really a plot to drain votes from the Wallace campaign. You will notice that Wallace (no, not George, he came later) got few votes where the Dixiecrats pulled a significant vote, so the plan worked out well. Their effort to stop a Commie symp in his tracks was successful. I am pleased to help you with some of this.

[panther33]

1.) When you speak at someone's 100th birthday party in front of hundreds of friends and colleagues, you talk nice about the person turning 100. I'm not saying you distort reality, but you give the person a compliment or two. Like Lott said, he only wanted "to honor Strom Thurmond the man... What are you going to say, 'I wish you lost'?"

2.) Sean Hannity interviewed Lott on his radio show the other day. You can listen to it on www.hannity.com if you haven't already heard it. Lott said that when he thinks of the Strom Thurmond of 1948, he thinks of "strong national defense, economic development, balanced budgets, and opportunity and [that's what I was referring to in the speech]."

Maybe he was misunderstood. Misunderstandings happen all the time; we apologize and try to be clearer next time. There is no reason to tar and feather Lott for a simple misunderstanding, especially when we have people like Senator Robert Byrd (D-WV), who still hasn't renounced a former membership with the KKK.