http://www.bloggernews.net/111931 High-quality English language analysis and editorial writing on the news. Fri, 17 Feb 2012 17:47:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 http://www.bloggernews.net/111931#comment-137069 Al Mon, 26 Nov 2007 19:00:19 +0000 http://www.bloggernews.net/111931#comment-137069 Wow! If Republicans won't miss this guy, as you say, then how on Earth did he ever get a seat in congress time and again over the past 30 plus years? There's no debate that Trent Lott has always been a dixiecrat crony who longed for the Jim Crowe days of the Old South. How convenient it is that at the end of his over-run tenure, GOP’s like yourself want to distance themselves from this displaced segregationist. Contrary to your suggestion, the fact is that Trent Lott found traction in politics among like minded thinkers within the GOP. His contemporaries had no qualms about his personally held racist ideologies until his public comments embarrassed his party. Only begrudgingly were Trent Lott's racially divisive comments rebuffed by his party then and even now. Case in point, the very quote used above states Sen. Lott made “remarks.. that were seen as racially insensitive”. Give me a break! That’s like saying remarks made by Bin Laden are seen a threatening. But the silver lining is that since (by your accord) GOP’s won’t miss Sen. Lott, perhaps this will strike a new common-ground spirit among congress that will allow then to work in a manner seen as productive. Wow! If Republicans won’t miss this guy, as you say, then how on Earth did he ever get a seat in congress time and again over the past 30 plus years? There’s no debate that Trent Lott has always been a dixiecrat crony who longed for the Jim Crowe days of the Old South. How convenient it is that at the end of his over-run tenure, GOP’s like yourself want to distance themselves from this displaced segregationist. Contrary to your suggestion, the fact is that Trent Lott found traction in politics among like minded thinkers within the GOP. His contemporaries had no qualms about his personally held racist ideologies until his public comments embarrassed his party. Only begrudgingly were Trent Lott’s racially divisive comments rebuffed by his party then and even now. Case in point, the very quote used above states Sen. Lott made “remarks.. that were seen as racially insensitive”. Give me a break! That’s like saying remarks made by Bin Laden are seen a threatening. But the silver lining is that since (by your accord) GOP’s won’t miss Sen. Lott, perhaps this will strike a new common-ground spirit among congress that will allow then to work in a manner seen as productive.

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