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To: epicure who wrote (331427)	12/20/2002 10:47:08 AM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 769670

The sole purpose of Strom's candidacy was the preservation of segregation, it was not just some plank in the platform. The Dixiecrats represented a big break with the Democratic Party, after Truman integrated the Armed Forces and pushed civil rights legislation. Strom should rightly be praised for having repudiated his segregationist past. In fact, he was in the wedding party of Clarence Thomas and his wife Virginia. It was moving to see him endorse an inter- racial marriage, given his history. Nevertheless, his presidential candidacy was tainted through and through.I do not think that Lott means anyone any harm, nor pines for the "good old days", but to endorse that candidacy APPEARS to endorse segregation, and it is only those of us who think better of Lott who would refrain from that conclusion, especially given a pattern of gaffes that buttress the view that he is hiding his true feelings.......

To: epicure who wrote (331427)	12/20/2002 10:52:22 AM
From: CYBERKEN	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

<<If the republicans have a need for a blood sacrifice over this, in order to appease the media, Lott will have to go. But it isn't fair.>> Nor is it that simple. One error most Americans make is that they VASTLY over-simplify the republic's politics. Poor public education and sound-bite news are the main culprits. No, it doesn't seem fair to go as far on Lott as the Senate Republicans are likely to go, especially after the same bunch let themselves get rolled so badly by the left on the impeachment of the worst criminal ever elected to public office. But sound-bite news and general ignorance of citizenship actually make politics more secretive and more complex. Much of Lott's downfall is his years of incompetence, failure to hold the Senate during and after the 2000 election, and failure-once in the minority-to highlight the nefarious anti-American actions of Daschle and the domestic enemy in the Senate. With the Republicans back from the Jeffords treachery, Lott's well of favors and good will had long since run dry. The current incident and its controversy is, as they say, "a vehicle"...