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As the Ann Coulter said, Trent never said that we should have elected a segregationist as President.

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Worst comeback ever!

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As the Ann Coulter said, Trent never said that we should have elected a segregationist as President.

And I say that if Ann Coulter actually said that, she needs a refresher course in the English language.

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But a lot of folks could interpret his comments to mean otherwise - and quotes are in the ey of the beholder.

Trent Lott was dumb enough to give the left a target and he had enough that could make the race card stick. There's enough there that it could stick. Sorry to burst your bubble, but Lott was indefensible.

Now, I have high regard for Ann Coulter, but as her book Slander makes clear (A book I have read, by the way), the media (outside of Fox News and the Washington Times) will target our guys for the slightest slip-up without any regard for the truth.

On the other hand, Frist just made the headlines, too, in case you haven't noticed. Let me tell you something - the average person is going to note two things:

1. We took action against someone who made REPEATED comments that could reasonably be interpreted as saying a segregationist should have been elected in 1948. We replaced him.

2. The guy who replaced him just made the headlines - for assisting the victims of a nasty wreck. He helped to save four of the six victims. And attacking him is going to make the Dems look HORRIBLE.

We know the left and the media will slander/libel our guys if they can. It's better to have folks who will be very hard to have it stick. The best option is to have someone who will be of such charcter (as Frist is) that the attacks are SEEN by the people as slander/libel.

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As the Ann Coulter said, Trent never said that we should have elected a segregationist as President

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Very true..... but it matters not one whit what Ann says but rather this entire thing is about what Trent said. Ann has nothing to do with it, other than in your mind.

Lott said: "I want to say this about my state, when Strom Thurmond ran for president, we voted for him. We're proud of it, and if the rest of the country had followed our lead, we wouldn't have had all these problems over all these years either."

Lott's said in re his remarks: "A poor choice of words conveyed to some the impression that I embraced the discarded policies of the past. Nothing could be further from the truth, and I apologize to anyone who was offended by my statement.''

So Lott admits he used words that were of a poor choice and conveyed an impression that he embraced the policies of the past. Preception is what gets people in trouble and Lott never was able to turn that around.