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[bryant]

Conventional wisdom in the blogosphere is that everyone's up in arms about Trent Lott, with harmonious accord. At the worst, there's some confusion about which bloggers broke the story first. Well... I gotta kick that one around a little, and shed some light on the warblogger world.

Mischa says, "Listen, folks: If you wanna get rid of Trent, it's no skin off of my nose, I couldn't care less. I never liked the guy to begin with. But would you please, please, PLEASE try to come up with a reason that's even half-way intelligent?"

Cold Fury says, "I don't really think the man is a raving racist; I think he was merely spouting a little half-baked fluff to pump up Sperm Thurmond at his party, that's all. But the truth is, he simply has to know that he's under a media microscope, and as the Republican standard-bearer in Congress, our useful-idiot mainstream journalists are just waiting for him to make any stupid move at all that they can pounce on. If he doesn't know this, then it necessarily follows that he's too damned stupid to be allowed to speak in public, much less speak for the Republican Party on anything more pivotal than whether to have the fries or the baked potato with lunch." I.e., he needs to quit because he makes Republicans look bad. But he's a nice guy at heart. Sure.

So do a few quotes mean anything about warbloggers as a whole? Nope, not even close. The vast majority of bloggers on all sides of this issue think Lott should resign because he's an unrepentant racist. However, I'm trusting the rest of the warbloggers will remember that some of their comrades are on the side of the segregationists.

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[eyelessgame.livejournal.com]

Yah. Dunno from blog, but I'll take my chance to vent here.

Personally I think any Republican who is acting shocked -- shocked! -- that Lott might say something racist is showing something pretty awful about his own character. To be upset about Lott /showing/ that he's a racist as opposed to having already been pissed that he /is/ racist (which everyone who isn't a complete political moron knows full well)... well, let's be clear about our priorities here. Racist Republicans are okay so long as they're discreet about it, eh? Policies that discriminate are perfectly fine; it's only when you carelessly admit out loud to liking said policies that your supporters will desert you.

I think the Senate Republicans should be /forced/ to keep him as majority leader. They already knew what he was; they should stew in it.