justin_o_guy2 wrote on 10/05/16 at 12:48:49:That needs some additional information in order to understand the connection you see so clearly.
Trent Lott.
A politician from the south.
On the birthday, of a very much older southern politician, he wished him well....
His remarks were twisted to mean something they didn't, with racial implications, to discredit both of these folks.
Politics in the south were tainted by much history, some really bad, some in context of the time, a matter of fact....
Not right, understand, but it was what it was.
The left chose to assign to these guys the ugliness of bygone days, while ignoring the blood on many of those, from the south, in their own party.
Of course it's hypocritical, as in finding Nixon's missing takings a grevious affair, while laughing on all the "unable to recall, wiped, or crashed, records the left has hid behind the last 8 years ( or more, if you include the bulge in Sandy Bergers underwear

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Jog, you live telling people to look it up, ya know