[kcvl]

Trent Lott has already been sending pork back to Mississippi to help EVERYONE not just whites, blacks, reds, blues and greens. That's what politicians do. DUH! He has helped bring jobs, a new highway through the Mississippi and Arkansas Delta area where they NEED them. It is a very poor area and he's trying to help them.

There is nothing that he can do to please some of you because on this thread alone most of you have been more racist than he has ever been. Hypocrites!

[dogbyte12]

Trent Lott has already been sending pork back to Mississippi to help EVERYONE not just whites, blacks, reds, blues and greens.

Wrong. It hurts me when wasteful uneccessary products get transferred from my bank account to Mississippi, just because Lott has clout. Pork is not conservative. It is a throw back to the machine politics of the democrats, which Lott grew up with of course.

Lott is now going to throw pork around, support affirmative action, and it is only for his job, not for any deep rooted philosophical principle.

[Steve Eisenberg]

There is nothing that he can do to please some of you because on this thread alone most of you have been more racist than he has ever been. Hypocrites!

There is something to be said for this view. However, race is really unique as an issue where Republicans need to be careful. Not so much for the sake of thin-skinned blacks, but also for the sake of swing voters who will judge harshly careless statement on just this one topic. It shouldn't be all that hard to remember this.

Reality is, Lott has little chance to hand on the his ML position. However, by moving to the left this last week, he is making it worse for his party. Now they will be saying that the next ML is even more conservative than Lott, and it will almost have to be true.