GOP TRUE COLORS (white) COME OUT

There's been a bit of a stir about Trent Lott's comments at Strom's century day party. Not enough of the stir, considering that Kerry's haircuts received more national coverage than Lott's "I wish we had elected a segregationalist" comments.

In case you missed it, Lott said:

"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."

Thurmond ran in 1948 as a States-Rights Democrat, a pro-segregation group that splintered off of the Truman bandwagon. So whatever Lott says in trying to explain all this away (and the excuses his spokesman made in the WaPo piece are quite lame), that "we wouldn't have had all these problems" comment sticks out.

The Civil Rights act of 1964 was a "problem".
The Voting Rights act, a couple of years later, was also a "problem".
And since Thurmond ran in '48, was Brown v. Board a "problem" as well?

The guy will be Senate Majority Leader in January. Maybe he wants to fill the racist void left by the departing Thurmond and Helms.

(and by the way, how DARE he make partisan comments at a birthday party!)