Correct me here, but my recollection about the Lott incident was that his remarks were blown out of proportion. I found it sickening that he did not stand up for himself and just tell them to get lost. But the real problem with Lott was that he was always making deals with the dems, proving what a good guy he was, such a go along, get along kind of fellow. That's why I was not sorry to see him go.
I think that's right. The support for Lott from his own party was a mile wide and an inch deep.
Agreed. His comment to Thurmond was apparently a "rerun" of a comment he made in 1980. At some kind of rally he introduced Thurmond, I believe, by saying "if he had been elected we wouldn't be in the mess we're in." A throwaway line, and I won't argue it wasn't somewhat insensitive regarding Thurmond's record, but we WERE in one hell of a mess at that time! Carter was president, the economy was in the crapper, the Soviets were expanding and the Iranian hostage crisis was round-the-clock news! Lott's problem was that, recycled 22 years later, the context looked so different.
that's one reason I'm not in public life. You have to answer for what you say, every second.
Me, too -- and wasn't the blowing out of proportion done by Dems and their henchmen? The Dems he want to cozy up to? It would be rational for him to say "A pox on both their houses," but to throw the Republicans on the mercy of the Dems is incomprehensible to me.
Exactly......remember his disastrous "power sharing" deal
with Puff Daschle, following the 2000 election? GOP Senators
never seem to tire from getting rolled by their democrat "colleagues". :(
I think the word you're looking for is collaborator.
It wasn't even a big deal among the Democrats or their comrades in the press. The group that kept attacking Lott over the Strom Thurmond birthday toast was a bunch of Republican bloggers and radio hosts. If you do a little research I think you'll find the Salem Radio Network had a lot to do with promoting the controversy.