If you wondered how low John McCain would go in his pandering to the radical right, consider that McCain has sought and gained Trent Lott’s support in his campaign for President. Of course, McCain is in the habit of abandoning his “straight talk” principles whenever he needs racist votes, for example waffling on the Confederate flag issue during the South Carolina primary or endorsing George Wallace Jr. despite Wallace’s ties to the Conservative Citizens’ Councils (successor-in-business to the terrorist White Citizens’ Councils of Civil Rights Movement Days) or emplying the editor of the white supremacist Southern Partisan magazine as his spokesman, not just in 2000 but currently as well.
But I hope some reporter will ask Sen. McCain what promises he has made to Sen. Lott, and whether he thinks the Gentleman from Mississippi ought to be considered eligible to return to the leadership ranks of the Senate Republicans.
For more on McCain’s rather dubious character, see the Stop John McCain blog.