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A lota Lott is too much Lott. That’s it. For the good of common sense. For the good of the USA. For the good of the Congress. For the good of moving on with real politics. Cut the lota Lott! Obviously, three main thrusts are at work in this on-going non-story: Demos are mad as mad can be. Why? Because they lost considerably in recent elections and so they lunge to make much adieu about nothing. Kids do it in school all the time. It’s called "getting attention." Some (not the logical, responsible ones) blacks have felt politically ignored (read...

by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. [I do not contend that Lott believes what follows, and neither do I contend that by saying it, he would somehow save his neck. I offer it only as a mental experiment in truth telling. LHR] My critics say that my comments – regretting the presidential loss of the Dixiecrats in 1948 – reflect a racial bias against blacks, because the States' Rights Party endorsed the right of states to preserve segregation at the state level. In fact, the real issue is not race; it is freedom and federalism, concepts which are apparently not understood...

Archived article from last year for redistributionSen. Robert Byrd, ex-Klansman jewishworldreview.com -- EX-KLANSMAN Robert Byrd, the senior senator from West Virginia, casually used the phrase "white nigger" twice on national TV this weekend. Enraged civil rights groups organized a protest campaign against Sen. Byrd and demanded that he undergo sensitivity training ... not. The ex-Klansman, you see, is a Democrat. Democrats can join hate groups and utter the ugliest racial slurs and get away with it because they are Democrats. They belong to the party of racial tolerance and understanding. They're paragons of virtue, and the rest of us are...

Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott is now a significant liability for the Republican Party and he should resign his leadership position forthwith, given his deeply divisive remarks at a celebration for Senator Strom Thurmond's 100th birthday. Senator Lott demonstrated terribly poor judgment and insensitivity when he asserted, "I want to say this about my state (Mississippi). When Strom Thurmond ran for president, we voted for him. We're proud of it. And if the rest of the country had followed our lead, we wouldn't have had all these problems over all these years, either". On hearing this particular statement, most Republicans...

December 16, 2002 9:40 a.m. The Truth about the Dixiecrats What they were about. http://www.nationalreview.com/script/printpage.asp?ref=/kopel/kopel121602.asp Besides segregation, what was in the 1948 platform of the states-rights' Democratic party? On the Larry King's CNN show, Senator Lott said that Strom Thurmond would have been a good president because he would have made a strong national defense and a balanced budget priorities. Let's take a look at the official Dixiecrat platform, as published in the reference book National Party Platforms.To start with, there's nothing about national defense or the budget. By far the largest portion of the Dixiecrat platform is an extensive...

The short, futile run of the Dixiecrat party By ROBERT TANNER AP National Writer Dec 13, 2002, 05:36 The Dixiecrats' futile run for the presidency in 1948 was a political footnote – but it signaled big changes to come. The short-lived party boosted an ambitious politician named Strom Thurmond, helped unravel decades of Democratic control in the South, and heralded years of tenacious, violent Southern backlash to civil rights. Now the pro-segregation offshoot of the Democratic Party has been invoked again in national politics, after Senate GOP leader Trent Lott's warm embrace of Thurmond's quixotic bid for the presidency 54...

The Dixiecrat Party, prominent in the current discussions on Trent Lott, was a branch of the Democrat Party. This is important to note. These Democrats never left the Party, and I believe that the Democrat Party has never apologized for their actions.Dixiecrat Party United States (Political Parties) Four states voted for the Dixiecrat ticket in 1948: Alabama Mississippi Louisiana!!! South Carolina "...Truman's own civil rights initiatives, including the formation of the Committee on Civil Rights and the Fair Employment Practices Commission, had advanced the civil rights debate to a new level, and he could not turn the clock back. The...

Sources have exclusively told CBS News Chief Washington Correspondant Bob Schieffer that influential Republicans-some of them inside the Bush White House-are now urging the President to work behind the scenes to get Trent Lott to step down as Majority Leader of the United States Senate.However some Republicans have risen to Lott's defense.Senator Arlen Specter , (R-PA) said Lott's comments should be accepted as an 'inadverdent slip and his apolgy should end the discussion.''I know Trent Lott very well from working with him in the Senate for the past 14 years and can vouch for the fact that he is no...