Oh you bet. The GOP, reeling from catastrophic losses in the House and Senate try to change their fortunes, and their image, by selecting a racist Southern greaseball as their #2 in the Senate.
As reported yesterday, Lott succeeds in leadership comeback. He was kicked out two years ago because he, aw shucks, made public statements claiming that the country would be better off if segregationists had won the 1948 presidency.
The quote, from Dec. 5, 2002:
"I want to say this about my state: 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."Gee, GOP, after running a racist campaign in 2006 - trying to attract the jingoistic wackos by showing the Democrats as allowing miscegenation (Harold Ford & the Bunny), Gay Marriage and for being soft on immigration (which angered Latinos) - you'd think you'd want to win those votes back. Hard to do with a white-sheeter as your number 2.
As Robert George (the Caribbean-American conservative blogger, not the Princeton professor) said:
"There's something painfully ironic about Trent Lott being named 'minority whip'."{2009 Update, pic from here.}
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