Pretend that you were at the birthday party and try to find a way to compliment the 100 year old fart without the possibility of someone making a issue about it!
Easy, I've already done it...
The only way to for Trent Lott to address Thurmond's '48 campaign would have been to chart how far the retiring senior Senator from South Carolina has traveled in the last 54 years, and to use him as a metaphor to further illustrate how far the South and America have come. Had he done this, Lott could have simultaneously honored the Centenarian Senator and reiterated that Republicans, like the South and like America, have learned the errors of racism and segregation, and have long since embarked on a better path.
POSTED HEREI one swoop I've acknowledged Thrumond's Presidential bid, and its defincies, an a fashion that honors Strom's change of heart against segregation, and the South's and America's as well. Rather than pay tribute to the Strom Thurmond of 1948, I've honored the remarkable centenarian he is today.
Had Lott done this, he'd still be Majority Leader next year, instead of having his foolish mug plastered on the covers of Time and Newsweek next week.
