You don't hang a person for a stupid remark and when they apologize you let it go. You don't stab them in the back and then stomp them in the ground. I was taught to treat people better than this no matter how much I dislike them or disagree with them.
I can't believe that I have mistaken so many people for good and honest people that I had hoped they were. Now I don't know. It seems like so many are willing to hang this man because Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, James Carville, et al, think he's a racist(or just saying that he is).
When Pres. Bush starts taking advice from the New York Times and The Washington Post then I know that he is not the person that I thought he was. If it took him 24 hours to figure out that what Trent Lott said was wrong then he is also a racist or knew that it wasn't a big deal. Either way he has let his enemies destroy someone from his own party who helped get him elected. He is pandering to people who will never vote for him and ignoring the people who worked hard to help him.
I understand that some people including myself think Lott has been too nice to Democrats. That is what Pres. Bush wanted him to do because he wanted everyone to get along I thought. How much good did that do them or anyone else? Instead of telling them to back off and stop this nonsense which he could have done he attacked Lott. That made me angry to begin with just like his support of Campaign Finance Reform. I was willing to let that go along with his jumping on Lott for what he said. That was enough.
Now I find out that the reason he said anything at all is because liberal newspapers and media along with Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton asked him to. If he couldn't figure out on his own whether it was right or wrong and stand up for his own beliefs then I'm sorry. I can't stand up for him either. And I sure can't ask anyone else to vote for someone that I don't believe in any longer.
For anyone wanting Lott out(including myself before this), there is a right way to do it and there is a wrong way to do it. This is not the right way to get rid of him. Labeling him as a racist and letting someone else do your dirty work makes us no better than them.
I hope everyone who is willing to trash him and keep trashing him holds the rest of the Washington politicians to the same standard that you have set for Lott. I also hope that people will forgive you for your mistakes instead of holding them against you until you are destroyed. Thank goodness I have family, friends and neighbors who know that I am human and make mistakes. They are willing to forgive me, let it go and get on with life.
You might want to check you own closets before you clean your neighbors.
The only question left now is whether or not the R party has figured out how to stop the bleeding, because the D's have now determined the issue they intend to keep hammering away at for the next 11 months. I'm waiting to see how the next R handles these kinds of accusations, because they are inevitable. In fact, I expect January to be the unleashing of all the opposition research the D's have done on every R who holds office now.