You obviously prefer the twit handpicked by Bob Dole.
There are precisely four human beings on the planet still stewing about Trent Lott's being gloriously deposed and they are all on this thread. A toast to you all, and may you spend the entire year in this unproductive state.
Wrong. There are many voters warily eyeing the GOP for its next capitulation to the race pimps. They've seen how a man can be capriciously thrown overboard for misspeaking.
What's next? Kicking Cass Ballenger out of the House for having a black-faced lawn jockey in his yard? (He painted it white, by the way, another example of a GOP politician shaking-in-his-boots.)
LOL. My thoughts exactly when I saw this thread.
All conservtives know libs control the media and they salivate at the prospect of taking a pubbie out...look what happened to Newt. Lott himself must have known any misstep would have brought an avalanche of criticism and bad press, and, to comport himself appropriately. Lott painted himself into a media corner with his voting record, no matter how justifiable he believes it is, and when he made the absurd remarks, had absolutely no where to turn for plausible deniability. If Lott didn't have PD, how would any supporters the author demands should have come forward?
The author suggests Lott should have immediately come out and state that in reality he would have preferred another candidate in '48, but was being kind to an old man. Lott didn't do this. He attempted to justify his remarks, his voting record, etc., which left no place for his friends to mount a credible defense without sacrificing their own careers.
Lott, on his own, created this public relations nightmare. It was his goofs and misteps which led to his being removed as majority leader. Attempts to lay the blame at the feet of others for not running into the burning house to save him, is ludicrous. Lotts house is in flames because he was alone playing with matches around a greasy stove, in a clapboard lean to, without an extinguisher in site. As the fire truck pulled up, their was Lott, trying to put it out by throwing water on the flaming grease, which only made it worse. By that time, it was over, their was no hope of rescue, and anyone attempting such would surely have succumbed to the smoke right alongside Lott.
Postscript:
Lotts supporters ask for the kind of loyalty he refused the courageous House Managers. Where was Lott when many of them, like Jim Rogan, were targeted for extinction? Where was Lott when Bob Barr was getting redistricted out of existence? They put their political careers on the line and when they needed Lott, he told them to pound sand...his career and the dignity of the Senate was more important. Well, ex ML Lott, sometimes chickens do come home to roost.