question for normal republicans

[M]

I suppose Lott. After all, what is his imagined crime, saying nice things about an old grandfather on his 100th birthday? My dad grew up in South Carolina, and for his generation, Strom was a regional hero, not just for segregation, states rights, etc., but for the same sort of pride in the Old South that keeps the Confederate battle standard waving over the capitol building in Columbia. My dad still has a "help Uncle Strom elect Nixon" bumper sticker in the attic. Too few people really understand the South of our parents generation; Lott was not talking about lynchings and "white only" toilets and automats. Sure, the comments seem a little odd outside of Mississippi, Alabama, and South Carolina, but all Trent was really trying to provoke was that little twinkle in Strom's eye and his hearty, wheezy laugh; one last bit of joy before a well deserved rest after a lifetime representing his folk as seemed best to him.

'Course, Lott ain't my favorite, being significantly more conservative than me, but DeLay talks church a bit too much and too overtly (I love Bush, but I have limits!) Coburn seems to be a Buchananite isolationist- rebulcianjew, you do realize he wants to end all aid to Israel? Not that it's a very significant portion of the Israeli economy anymore. Bunning was quite a ballplayer but seems a little off his rocker now, and Kerry appears beholden to a regurgitated form of Chamberlainite appeasement, Namophobia and welfare-statism in a time of war and big new ideas. So Lott. But I'd rather keep my good ol' W.

[M]

Vance considered running for governor as a Whig, but then said something along the lines of "the Whigs are dead and buried, and I ain't bringing 'em back". Zell Miller cites him as a major inspiration.