On His Own Petard? Release Date: April 23, 2004 In 2002, during the Lott-Thurmond scandal, Senator Dodd of Connecticut lit a petard, an explosive. Remember when Lott said we'd all be better off had Thurmond been elected president in 1948? There was a racist element, since Thurmond ran on a segregationist plank. Well, Dodd said that if a Democrat had said such an insensitive thing, within "several hours" there would have been a unanimous call for him to leave office. Well, a few weeks ago on the floor of the Senate, Democrat Dodd said that West Virginia's Robert Byrd would...