I'm not looking for friggin perfection. I want someone who is going to stand up for himself and his party when it is attacked. If Lott had been a man on this from the beginning, then we all could have stood with him. But he whined and cried, "Oh I'm so sorry! Please don't hurt me mommy!"
I want someone who is going to stand in front of a camera and say, "Don't you DARE try to paint me as a racist!" But of course, that only works if you aren't a racist and I'm 100% absolutely sure that Trent Lott IS a racist coward. He's too afraid to tell the truth about himself and his beliefs. Does he think black people can't handle it? Too stupid to see truth?
What other explanation is there for his LIES about his voting record? What possible excuse can there be for implying that we are all, every one of us, racists? THAT is why no one came running to his defense. All his friends knew he'd wet himself at the earliest opportunity. Imagine defending Trent Lott! "No way! He's not a racist!" And then Lott himself admits it.
Several Republican senators who had publicly excused Mr. Lott's remark at Mr. Thurmond's 100th birthday party say they feel "blindsided" now by the president's belated and blunt attack on Mr. Lott.
One Republican aide on Capitol Hill said Mr. Bush "cut the feet out from under" these senators by remaining silent for a full week after Mr. Lott's comments, and then to go on the attack.
The White House at first discounted the significance of the remark.
Four days later, the White House gave Mr. Lott a strong endorsement as point man for the president's agenda in the Senate. "The president has confidence in him as Republican leader, unquestionably," Mr. Fleischer said.
But 24 hours later, after both the New York Times and The Washington Post urged that Republicans replace Mr. Lott as their leader, the administration's position changed dramatically.