[Ben Hecks]

Wow! If Lott caused all this hyperventilating just by making a bad joke, just think what reaction had been if he had driven a car off a bridge while drunk and drowned a young, female campaign worker.

[GraniteStateConservative]

Saying he supported a Dixiecrat's presidential candidacy on AT LEAST two occassions, admitting his pro-segregation views in college (22-year-olds aren't just silly kids) and acting upon them, being the protege of a white supremacist congressman, and all the rest of his history on this topic isn't a joke.

Ask someone who grew up during Jim Crow how funny it was.

[TomGuy]

Brings to mind that adage about Republicans: They seem to always manage to pull defeat out of the jaws of victory.

[No Truce With Kings]

"Wow! If Lott caused all this hyperventilating just by making a bad joke, just think what reaction had been if he had driven a car off a bridge while drunk and drowned a young, female campaign worker."

I hope you are not advocating that Republicans hold their elected officials to the same low standards to which Democrats hold theirs. One reason that the Republicans offer an alternative to the Democrats is that unlike the Democrats, when a Republican steps in it the Republican goes. Is the party stronger or weaker without Bob , Livingston, or Gingrich? Are the Democrats stronger or weaker with Clinton, Kennedy, and Byrd?

If the Dems want drunken wastrels as Senators, that is their lookout. That is not an excuse to keep an ineffective fumblemouth as Majority Leader. In fact, tolerating an ineffective fumblemouth as Majority Leader is one factor that allows the Democrats to survive as viable party despite having drunken wastrels Senators.

[ClancyJ]

If Lott caused all this hyperventilating just by making a bad joke, just think what reaction had been if he had driven a car off a bridge while drunk and drowned a young, female campaign worker.

Great comment. The reason? The "R" behind his name and the "D" behind the name of the driver of the car.

[Petronski]

Glub, glub, glub.

[Clara Lou]

If Lott caused all this hyperventilating just by making a bad joke,

A joke? You call what he said a joke? Whether you consider his comment racist or just plain stupid-- I opt for "stupid"--, "joke" is the wrong word. He wasn't trying to be funny.

[wardaddy]

Wow! If Lott caused all this hyperventilating just by making a bad joke, just think what reaction had been if he had driven a car off a bridge while drunk and drowned a young, female campaign worker.

If he were a more popular Republican, he'd be a hero around here...especially if he weren't Southern. FR has a huge South Bashing gang of morally superior folks who can't get enough of this.