Trent Lott Strikes Back

First Mel Martinez has chair of the RNC. Now I get this email from The Hill news letter.

But Lott spokeswoman Susan Irby confirmed his bid in a statement. “Senator Lott is running for Republican whip. His name will be on the ballot. We are closing in on victory,” she said.

Yes! The Republicans continue to implode.

There is a reason Lott was removed of Republican Senate leader.

"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 on a pro-segregation platform. Lott's history shows him to be a strong believer of segregation.

Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott helped lead a successful battle to prevent his college fraternity from admitting blacks to any of its chapters, in a little-known incident now four decades old. At a time when racial issues were roiling campuses across the South, some chapters of Sigma Nu fraternity in the Northeast were considering admitting African-American members, a move that would have sent a powerful statement through the tradition-bound world of sororities and fraternities. At the time, Lott was president of the intra-fraternity council at the University of Mississippi. When the issue came to a head at Sigma Nu's national convention — known as a "Grand Chapter" — in the early 1960s, "Trent was one of the strongest leaders in resisting the integration of the national fraternity in any of the chapters," recalls former CNN President Tom Johnson, then a Sigma Nu member at the University of Georgia.

If Lott becomes the whip then it proves the GOP only pays lip service to making the party a big tent.