For a Republican party that has just been through a big loss, and whose commitment to minority voters is a question mark, elevating Lott seems like a dubious move. The voters of Virginia punished Republican Sen. George Allen for a racially insensitive comment, yet the GOP promotes Lott, whose utterance was equally offensive.
Lott said that if Thurmond had been elected president in 1948, "we wouldn’t have had all these problems over the years …" Thurmond ran as a segregationist Dixiecrat, and Lott’s words were interpreted as racist.
This proves that the difference between the republican caucus and a cactus is that with a cactus "the pricks are on the outside.
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