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Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
Well, there's our answer to my question about your motive. Did you oppose the canonization of St. Paul because he'd been a coatrack at St. Stephen's farewell party?
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Moreover, many of the era's really nasty political racists never changed their positions -- Bull Connor, James Eastland, and Lester Maddox come to mind. Byrd and Justice Black did.*
Strom did as well, which is why the praise of him as a senator by Lott and others was fine -- until Lott said that he should have won the presidency on the Dixiecrat's explicitly racist platform in 1948. That's where Lott crossed the line.
In a nutshell, that's the difference between Lott and Dodd.
*Heck, even George Wallace expressed regret for his racial sins -- at least enough regret to get black support in his last campaign. Although there are some who note his "I won't ever be out-n######ed again!" statement and contend that his racist platform was merely a campaign gimmick, which was easily discarded by him when he didn't need it anymore.
