In the End, Southern Senators Rose Against Lott

Sen. George Allen (R-Va.) had decided Sen. Trent Lott (R-Miss.) could not and should not survive as the incoming majority leader. Allen, serving as a front man for Lott's likely successor, picked up the phone to tell him so.

It was late Wednesday afternoon, 36 hours before Lott resigned as Senate GOP leader. Allen and several other southern senators had been working secretly for four days to replace Lott with Sen. Bill Frist (R-Tenn.), a heart-lung transplant surgeon President Bush affectionately calls "Fristy."

Hillary Clinton and the Democrat Party turned their back on Carl McCall. When the Democrat Party had to replace two Senate candidates they turned to two old white guys. The Maryland Governor's race had an African-American on one of the tickets and it wasn't the Democrat's. Harold Ford's run at House minority leader sure was short lived. The head of DNC could have easily been a person of color had the Clinton's not gotten their way. Finally Al Sharpton's presidential campaign threatens to split the Black vote.

On the other hand. Two of the Bush administration's highest profile people are Black. The Maryland Lt. Governor seat is now held by an African-American Republican.

In the case of Hillary Clinton, I think she protests too much. Her broad brush statements that push the envelope of credibility are as much to cover for the Democrat's inaction as they are to "expose" the Republican Party. My guess is that the Democrat's internal polling on the Black vote must look like crap. Furthermore, Trent Lott or no Trent Lott, the Democrat Party would have found a way to push this "issue" to the front.

Sen. Bill Frist (R-Tenn.), a heart-lung transplant surgeon President Bush affectionately calls "Fristy."

So, it sounds like George Allen was one of the coup leaders. Fristy? Well, at least its better than Bush's affectionate nick-name for former KGB director and current Russian President Vladimir Putin. He calls Putin "Pootie-poot" which seems to indicate a tremendous naivity on his part regarding what Putin represents as a KGB operative trying to restore Russian control over the former Soviet Union and as an ally of Communist China against America.

Shapiro ran a hit piece on Senator Allen today: Lott problems call to mind record of others, like Allen

"...Among them: Allen's display in his Earlysville home of the Confederate battle flag and the noose he kept in plain view in his law office in Charlottesville as a supposed emblem of his commitment to law and order.
As a state delegate, he opposed a Virginia holiday for the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. because King was from Georgia, which, as Allen pointed out at the time, had yet to honor the civil-rights martyr.
Allen also voted against legislation dumping the racially offensive state song, "Carry Me Back to Old Virginia."
Heading to Congress for a single term, Allen opposed the 1991 Civil Rights Act, which was signed by the president's father.
Allen was a foe of legislation requiring bilingual voting material, a stance that presaged Virginia's court challenge, during the Allen governorship, to the federal "motor-voter" law.
No single gesture may have rattled blacks, as well as whites in both political parties, more than Allen's annual decree, as chief executive, of Confederate History and Heritage Month.... "

There are only two black lt. governors in the U.S. and both are Republicans. In 2006, Ohio will elect another black Republican as its governor-- Ken Blackwell. There is only one racial minority in the Senate-- Republican Ben Nighthorse Campbell.

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