Were you talkin' ta me? If so, what do Bush's communications skills have to do with Bush/Rove forcing Lott for his spot?
Inasmuch as Trent Lott was in kindergarten in 1948, he did not vote for Thurmond. He did not run on a "similar" platform to the Dixiecrats. He did not write a jacket-flap endorsement calling a segregationist an "American Dreamer."
The idea that Lott took the occasion of an old timer's birthday to introduce a new policy initiative to bring back segregation – a Democrat policy – is ludicrous.
Ann Coulter
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/808894/posts?page=64#64