Not a Lott to Love

Trent Lott’s extolling the virtues of Strom Thurmond’s segregationist presidential platform are now infamous. “And if the rest of the country had followed our lead, we wouldn’t have had
all these problems over all these years either…”

What exactly did he mean? We now have examples of similar comments made in years past. Time Magazine reported that Lott led an effort to prevent his all-white fraternity from integrating. Lott has mixed with white supremacists who made no attempt to mask their beliefs.

That is why I don’t really understand all this talk of whether he has sufficiently apologized.
Senators like Mitch McConnell have said that he’s gone overboard apologizing. Does it really matter? I’m sure he is very sorry. But his record speaks for itself and this rube should not be the Senate Majority Leader.

Let’s hope that he’ll announce his resignation today at his 5:30EST press conference.

December 13th, 2002