Isn't it sad....

[Bleeding heart conservative, HTMLdon]

Isn't it sad that the Senate Republican Caucus chose Trent Lott, a man who thinks the world would be a better place if we returned to the Jim Crow era over Lamar Alexander, who appointed the first African-American justice to the Tennessee Supreme Court (in 1980, mind you) and consistently recieves large percentages of African-American votes in Tennessee? 

I think we are going to be in the minority for a very long time... not because of this action, but because of the attitude that led up to this vote.

[Bleeding heart conservative, HTMLdon]

I concur that the furor over Lott's statement was overblown... but politics ain't beanbag.  He said what he said and like George Allen was unable to appropriately defend himself.  Its time for new leadership to prove that we aren't the same old caucus.... I guess we'll have to get our asses kicked a few more times to realize that.

[Bleeding heart conservative, HTMLdon]

He bragged about the fact that his state voted for a Segregationalist, and said the world would be better and we would not have all these problems if the Segregation candidate won.  Its not simply praising a dying old man, what he chose to brag about the guy and state about the guy were the worst aspects of a horrible man.

EXACTLY.  Lott may not have understood what he was saying, but as Rush Limbaugh would say - "Words mean things".  The words that came out of his mouth praised evil.  Thurmond has apologized for what he did and I think most Americans forgive him.  Lott was praising what Thurmond has worked much of his life to atone for.

[Bleeding heart conservative, HTMLdon]

Of course the racist Lott is a perfect representative of the modern (and as has been pointed out rather Southern) Republican Party.

For you, Htmldon, the reasonable move is to become a Democrat.

Sorry, I don't want to trade in the party that supposedly hates black people for the party that hates white people.

[Bleeding heart conservative, HTMLdon]

Sorry, I don't want to trade in the party that supposedly hates black people for the party that hates white people.

The Democratic party hates white people? Where do you get this garbage?

Well, according to Harold Ford Sr., I am an "East Memphis (white) devil".

[Bleeding heart conservative, HTMLdon]

Don, I get the impression that the main reason you hate the entire Democratic party all across the nation; past, present and future; is simply because you only have the Memphis/Ford political machine to go by.  That's probably not the best way to go about your political discourse.

All politics is local.

[Bleeding heart conservative, HTMLdon]

Don, I get the impression that the main reason you hate the entire Democratic party all across the nation; past, present and future; is simply because you only have the Memphis/Ford political machine to go by.  That's probably not the best way to go about your political discourse.

All politics is local.

So because the microcosm of the local parties in Memphis is all that matters to you, it therefore follows that you would endorse the Republican over the Democrat for any office anywhere (i.e. not Tennessee), even if the Democrat was a paragon of virtue and even agreed with you on more issues than the Republican?

(I'll bet you won't even respond to this.  You rarely do.)

Democratic officials in Shelby county are crazy and corrupt.  Democrats in Tennessee are crazy and corrupt.  Why should I care if there happens to be one non-crazy, non-corrupt Democrat somewhere in North Dakota?

[Bleeding heart conservative, HTMLdon]

The idea that any Southern Republican senator is not racist is patently ridiculous.

I can tell you for an absolute unquestionable fact that Senator Lamar Alexander is not racist.