To keep my integrity, I must say when it is good to see one of our own go. Actually, I use “one of our own” guardedly for Trent Lott, who was a life long Democrat until he changed parties in the early 1970s, was never really one of our own. He changed parties not because he was a real Republican, but because he thought it might afford him a win to office. In that he was right… and that was the last time there was much “right” about him.
Ever since he entered Congress he acted like a center left Democrat. His tenure as Senate Majority leader in the early part of the 200’s was a disaster for the Republican agenda as he constantly allowed the Dems to win issue after issue while he stymied the GOP agenda.
It should be noted, he is also a supporter of the wretched and misnamed “Fairness Doctrine.”
Fox News is reporting this one:
Mississippi Sen. Trent Lott, the No. 2 Republican in the Senate, will announce his resignation effective this year, FOX News has learned.
Lott, 66, was re-elected in 2006 amid speculation that he would retire. Instead, against his wife Tricia’s wishes, he ran again, regaining a Senate leadership position after being forced from the top Republican seat in 2002, following remarks he made that were seen as racially insensitive.
He won’t be missed as far as any conservative feels!
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Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackWow! 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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