The Dixiecrat Platform

The Smoking Gun ^ | August 14, 1948 | The States Rights Democratic Party

[GraniteStateConservative]

Just so people here understand that Thurmond's run for the White House had nothing to do with lowering taxes or reducing government spending.

[GraniteStateConservative]

All of us who aren't fools know the answer is that it slipped out. It didn't make it any less authentic. He just forgot to close his mouth while his brain was talking.

[Fiddlstix]

Bump

[inkling]

1) How on earth do you know whether Lott is or is not a bigot.

2) Do you actually think that anyone who disagrees with you is an "idiot", "moron" and "blind"?

3) Why do you keep insisting that is Lott lets another senator lead, we "lose the Senate"? Only an idiotic, blind moron would think that.

[inkling]

If Lott steps down from majority leader, why should he stay in the senate?? If he is too prejudiced to be the majority leader, isn't he also too prejudiced to be a senator???

If Lott steps down, the controversy is over. If Dems overplay their hand and call for his removal from the Senate, we, as the majority, will first demand the Democrats remove Byrd and Hollings. Issue done.

Whether or not Lott is a senator is for the state of Mississippi to decide. Whether or not he should represent the entire GOP is for the GOP to decide.

[Howlin]

It's not about prejudice. It's about stupidity.

[Howlin]

Why was he even THINKING about 1948??

[GWfan]

What did you do in college? I bet you can't disclose it all here.

Lott used to be a dem. Guess what party wanted segregation? That's right, DEMS.

People change. Hillary used to be a Goldwater Republican. So What? Trent Lott is an adult now. He was 22 at the oldest when he was in college. I can't even remember the bone-headed things I did when I was 22. But I am sure that if I ran for office, people like you would dig up any crap they could. Trent Lott is a gentleman right now, and a good public servant. He apologized and explained himself numerous times, but i don't see you posting any of those transcripts here. No, you keep going back in time to dig up dirt.

[Ol'Grey Head]

Yeah 22 years ago. Once every 22 years. Probably says it behind closed doors all the time, too. Yes the spoken word is the capital form of thought crime. If we catch people saying the wrong things we can cut their right hand off (take away their livelihood) just like Islam.
So what has he done for the last 22 years? I think that is a better measure.

[FreedomCalls]

By way of comparison, here is the Democrat Party platform from 1948 and here is the Republican Party platform from 1948.

[El Gato]

Many people here believe that states have the right to tell people what they can put in their body, even if the Federal government does not. I wonder if those same people would argue that the state does not have the right to tell people whom they can and cannot marry.

States have no rights, only powers. They don't get those powers, for the most part, from the Federal government, nor from the Federal Constitution. They get them from the people of the state via the state Constitution. While I oppose the states having those particular powers, I don't see any power given to the federal government, any branch, to take them away if the people of the state give them to the state government, unless they violate the rights of citizens of the United States as protected by the bill of rights and the 14th amendment. Even then, only the "guarantee of republican government" clause (Art IV Sec 4 US Constitution) gives the federal government any power in the matter.

The point in this case is separation of powers, not "states rights".

[GWfan]

Wrong, Howlin, it's about giving in to race baiters and Lott retiring from the senate entirely. I sincerely hope I am wrong, I don't think I have ever disagreed with you, but I am adamant about this.

[FreedomFlyer]

The Lott case is a defining moment for the Republican Party. So far Bush and the Republican Senate are failing the challenge. I'm ashamed of them.

[muawiyah]

Hillary puked under my apartment door in 1973!

Didn't need to dig that up - it just kind of rolled off my tongue, but it's all true.

Now, the evil part proving she was already a hardcore kneejerk loathesome Liberal Democrat at that early time - she did not offer to clean it up!

[Chi-townChief]

And, oddly enough, Thurmond would have still been a better president than Truman who would have gotten his ass kicked all the way back to Missouri if he ran again in '52.

[inkling]

People change. ... So What? Trent Lott is an adult now.

I know what Trent Lott did one week ago. He intentionally praised a party that's only reason for existence was to retain segregation and keep blacks as second-class citizens.

Trent Lott is a gentleman right now, and a good public servant. Somehow I missed how Lott was a good public servant. Was it when he scuttled impeachment, or caved to every Clinton initiative, or entered a power-sharing agreement with Daschle, or allowed Jeffords to give the Senate to the Dems, or created this useless firestorm which has plunged the Republican Party into damage-control mode and emboldened a moribund Democratic party and Congressional Black Caucus. Why are we blowing years of political capital to save this toupeed mediocrity's hide?

[Trailerpark Badass]

The XIV*th Amendment squelches your desire to have states tell people who they can and cannot marry, since marriage in the US is a matter of civil law regarding life, liberty and property, among other things.

My desire???

[muawiyah]

Oh, yes - almost forgot the worst part of it - I saw her naked! Yes, it was the wee hours of the morning and there she was, Hillary Clinton, (Rodham at the time I think), puking under my door!

Oh the humanity!

[inkling]

The Lott case is a defining moment for the Republican Party. So far Bush and the Republican Senate are failing the challenge. I'm ashamed of them.

Amen. I am deeply ashamed of my party tonight.

[small voice in the wilderness]

Whether or not Lott is a senator is for the state of Mississippi to decide. Whether or not he should represent the entire GOP is for the GOP to decide.

HELLOOOO AND AMEN. Thanks for perfectly explaining the situation and the solution. Lott has now become the official anti-republican sound-byte for the libs. As for conservative supporters, Lott is perceived as an ineffectual Majority Leader, his last stint at that job proved his inability to lead (impeachment, anyone?). To the last group of voters, the ever frustrating moderates, Lott is the sum-total of the next two years of letterman, leno, saturday night live, jennings, rather, brokaw, couric, etc. He should have been dealt with by the republican leadership when the truth of the Senate trial of WJC came out. His time as leader has come and gone. Let Mississippi voters decide his fate as their Senator. He sealed his own fate as Majority Leader last Saturday, as far as I'm concerned.

[Howlin]

So what you're saying is that if Lott can't be THE leader he'll leave?

You're saying that, even though HE put himself and the party in this position, he expects US to go down with him? To satisfy him?

Gee, I didn't realize Trent Lott was bigger than the Republican agenda.

And don't worry about it: a LOT of people have disagreed with me today.......LOL.