Dubya had to come down hard on Trent. Lott wasn't saying much, there was allot of ambiguity out there and someone was going put him on the spot about it eventually. It was inevitable.
What confuses me is why everyone else is jumping on the bandwagon. There is no need to turn this into a free for all and damage our prospects even further.
I can understand the rats' motivation for doing so, but the rest of it seems to be more counter productive as anything.. Like you said, it's setting up and legitimizing a scenario that's going to be played out over and over.
The party and conservative media is happily dancing to the democrat tune.
from the left their thoughts.......
Buzzflash looks at the Trent Lott's ongoing troubles and sees Karl Rove manipulating the puppet strings:
Quite simply, the Bush right wing political pundits that Karl Rove has on his leash are suddenly glorifying America's great tradition of civil rights and telling Trent Lott to walk the plank. You would expect these hack journalists to be choking on their words, since they have regularly spewed venom on civil rights, prominent black elected officials -- and unrelentingly advocated for the racially code worded issue of "states rights." But Rove is worried silly that if Bush is revealed for leading the anti-minority, anti-civil rights jihad that he is really undertaking, the suburban women and independents will jump to the Democratic candidate in 2004, giving the Democrats a shot at picking up one of the smaller marginal red states and winning the presidential election.
That's why we are now seeing so much right wing red ink about the "horrible misdeeds" of Trent Lott. That is why the story is staying alive as a mainstream media issue. That is why the White House journalistic "amen choir" is all over Trent Lott like a wet blanket.
That is also why Bush participates in so many photo opportunities with young black school children. It is not to win over black votes; it is to convey the image of a man who cares about minorities to women, suburban males and independents.
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http://www.thismodernworld.com/
I agree, Jhoffa_.