[deport]

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.

[sweetliberty]

"but it matters not one whit what Ann says but rather this entire thing is about what Trent said."

I beg to differ with you. It had to do with what some people THOUGHT he said, or how some people INTERPRETED what he said, or what some people assumed he was THINKING when he said it, or how some people wanted other people to interpret what they SAID he said. It had very little to do with what he actually said or indeed even with what he might have meant or not meant by it. Both sides saw it as a political opportunity. Nothing more.