And what, good Sinkspur, is sanctimonious about taking alarm at what are plainly - on their face - racist comments?
Especially when he's said them on more than one occasion?
You continue to defend the indefensible.
This party will sacrifice far too much moral stature - and any chance of passing a real conservative agenda - so long as the neo-confederate, segregationist stink of Trent Lott continues to trail our passage.
I'm not as reticent as Sabertooth. Lott's comments are racist on their face. His "apologies" have been tardy and disingenuous. And a fair case can be made that, based on the evidence, Lott *is* a racist.
And conservatives demonstrate a similar blindspot by blindly defending one of their presumed (though I never presumed it) own no matter how much validity the charge may have - simply because of the repulsiveness of some making the charge.
There is no reason to continue wasting valuable moral and political capital defending this man.
He's not worth it.
I don't, I didn't take his comments to be racist, and I believe people like Paul Weyrich and Dick Morris, who have defended Lott against charges of racism in long associations with him.
So, you fight on the side of the Maxine Waters and Sheila Jackson Lees.
Tom Tancredo, (whom I cannot stand) is being accused of racism for his associations with Glenn Spencer. I will defend Tancredo just as vigorously.
Nobody's safe when the race pimps beat you down for something you're not.