[section9]

Okay, folks, it's Truth or Dare time for Trent?

Will he butch up and act like a man, or is he still Tom Daschle's wet dishrag?

"Quit crying, Trent! Act like a man!"

Be Seeing You,

Chris

[Howlin]

Oops....we think alike. Let's let this one stand since you got it up first!

[Texaggie79]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[Vis Numar]

ha ha Lott is up on prime time, and just roughling through the papers "we should enforce all laws"

Roy Ennis, Bob Johnson, they are working on a full hour speech for next week.

[InvisibleChurch]

at least he's not crying like a democrat

[Wordsmith]

Posted on Andrew Sullivan's blog minutes before the press conference:

TRENT'S GOOD FRIEND: Check out Jake Tapper's piece on Lott's close friendship with a proud segregationist, Richard Barrett, who's alarmed by Lott's apparent apologies:

And Barrett remembers that November 1994 night, right after Lott was reelected to his second Senate term when, "at his victory celebration, at the Coliseum Ramada Inn, Trent entered the hall and the first person he went up to shake hands with and greet was me. He called me by my name and was very affable." But has Lott ever specifically talked to Barrett about supporting segregation? Barrett finds the question naive. "Does Jesse Jackson talk to Al Sharpton abut integration?" he asks. "Do they have to? Is there some split in the black caucus on that issue? There is certainly no split in Mississippi on segregation. Mississippi is still the solid South." Barrett spent a lot of time on the phone Wednesday night with close advisors to Lott, he says. "We're all like one big happy family in Mississippi. We're the heart of Dixie. I've certainly never heard him say anything in favor of integration, let me put it to you that way."... Barrett has harsh words for President Bush's Thursday rebuke of Lott. "Sen. Lott was right" in his original comments, Barrett says. "Integration is immoral and should also be illegal." Barrett thinks that whatever he's saying now, Lott still believes that in his "heart of hearts." What about Bush? "His heart of hearts has been addled by his drug-abused brain," Barrett says.

More and more of this stuff is now bound to emerge. Yet Lott wants to hang on. How much more damage does he want to do to the country and to his party?

LOTT MUST GO!!!!

[xm177e2]

Trent Lott is going to be on BET. This has to be a sign of the Apocalypse...

[buffyt]

I think he made a good speech. He said he was trying to honor a man, Strom Thurmond, who landed at Normandy. I don't think Lott did anything wrong. I think he is being demonized and crucified as all conservatives and Christians always are. But on the other hand, I have called for him to resign ever since he said to David Schippers on impeachment in senate of Bubba Clinton "You're not dumping this sh*t in my lap are you" We had Clinton by the b*lls and Trent didn't have ANY.

[Vis Numar]

So Lott is saying he had "a platonic Father-Son relationship with Thurmond."

He claims that Juneteenth, "I did that."

[cake_crumb]

"Will he butch up and act like a man, or is he still Tom Daschle's wet dishrag?"

Yes.

[CatoRenasci]

Not good. Lott is doing OK, but he should have had the grace to bow out. He has placed his perception of his own interest ahead of the country and the party. Out with him!

[usmcobra]

It was a brillant apology, and what's best about it is that it completely disarmed any further such attacks by Democrats using race as a issue.

The BET interview to explain his remarks is a gem of Strategery, and I might add could go a long way towards bringing more blacks into the republican party.