"I wanna tell you, ladies and gentlemen, that there's not enough troops in the army to force the southern people to break down segregation and admit the nigger race into our theatres into our swimming pools into our homes and into our churches."---Strom Thurmond, presidential candidate, 1948
"I wanna say this about my state. When Strom Thurmond ran for president, we voted for him. We're proud of him. And if the rest of the country had followed our lead we wouldn't have had all these problems over all these years either." Senator Trent Lott, Dec 2002
The Republicans will have a chance to prove whether or not they are really republicans in less than two years, when the so-called 'assault weapons' ban is scheduled to expire. Anyone care to predict what our Republican President and our Republican Congress will do to the 2nd Amendment of the United States Constitution, given that 2004 is an election year?
I suspect it won't be pretty...