"I wanna tell you, ladies and gentlemen, that there's not enough troops in the army to force the southern people to break down segregation and admit the nigger race into our theatres into our swimming pools into our homes and into our churches."---Strom Thurmond, presidential candidate, 1948
"I wanna say this about my state. When Strom Thurmond ran for president, we voted for him. We're proud of him. And if the rest of the country had followed our lead we wouldn't have had all these problems over all these years either." Senator Trent Lott, Dec 2002
"I wanna tell you, ladies and gentlemen, that there's not enough troops in the army to force the southern people to break down segregation and admit the nigger race into our theatres into our swimming pools into our homes and into our churches."---Strom Thurmond, presidential candidate, 1948
Yeah, right...
By the way, was there anything technically wrong with what Lott said? Is it at all possible the we would be better off? Not on the issue of segregation--one man in the White House would not have been able to stop desegregation even if he wanted to--but on such issues as states' rights? In Lott's defense, Harry Truman wasn't exactly the best choice for this country.
"I wanna tell you, ladies and gentlemen, that there's not enough troops in the army to force the southern people to break down segregation and admit the nigger race into our theatres into our swimming pools into our homes and into our churches."---Strom Thurmond, presidential candidate, 1948 ...and...
"I wanna say this about my state. When Strom Thurmond ran for president, we voted for him. We're proud of him. And if the rest of the country had followed our lead we wouldn't have had all these problems over all these years either." Senator Trent Lott, Dec 2002
I think they pretty well speak for themselves and sum the whole issue up. Lott could NOT be left in as LEADER to FUMBLE, er...LEAD, the Republican Party.
Lott is NOT A LEADER!!!!!!! He is INCOMPETENT and INEFFECTIVE!