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Gee, thanks a lot, Trent.

Last week, I defended presumptive Majority Leader Trent Lott from accusations of racism by a UO prof, as repeated by the Ol’ Dirty.

Less than a week later, at Strom Thurmond’s 100th birthday party, Lott says this: “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. ” Live on C-SPAN, no less.

Well, I’m not going to change my statement, because the fact that Democrat Robert Byrd goes unremarked as a bigot while Republicans are rebuked (in this case, rightly) is no less true now than then. However, this does remind me of why some say they will vote for a cause, but not a person. Or why you don’t name a building after someone who is still alive.

On another note, Instapundit‘s Glenn Reynolds, Andrew Sullivan and the blogosphere at large have been debating this thing all weekend. Most of the debate centers on whether the GOP should kick Lott to the curb. Meanwhile, the New York Times, the Democrats, and various leftish websites (Democratic Underground to name one) are all mysteriously silent.

UPDATE ONE: Okay, DU does mention it, but it’s buried in a list of other, apparently equally offensive conservatives — like the Wall Street Journal, who (gasp!) want a flatter income tax.

UPDATE TWO: I’m with Frum on this.

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