Trent Lott, Crybaby Extraordinaire

I was just reading this CNN review of Trent Lott's new memoir, and it turned my stomach, primarily because clearly Trent Lott is not just a racist, but a complete crybaby as well.

After all:

Frist's actions amounted to a "personal betrayal," Lott wrote. "I had taken him under my wing. ... He was my protege. ... We'd been friends off and on the floor, and that's pretty rare in a governmental body loaded with lone wolves and enormous egos."

Oh, the agony.  I feel so sorry for you, Senator Lott.  That nasty little Bill Frist sounds like a pure Judas.  Which would make you Jesus, but you knew that already.

President Bush also played a role in his downfall, Lott wrote, not so much with what he said, but by saying it in a tone that was "devastating ... booming and nasty."

Yeah, that's right.  Now you're talking.  The President is an asshole, isn't he?  And I bet he's really a liberal in disguise, right?

The issue I take with these excerpts of Lott's memoir, interestingly titled "Herding Cats," (does that make Lott kind of like the male version of a cat lady?) is not that they reveal the dark heartstrings of a true racist, but that it seems like all Senator Lott is capable of doing is pointing fingers and complaining -- including at his own party!

This can't possibly do anything good for the Republicans.  I'd say it's pretty certain that we can call it a victory.  When one archconservative is turning on other archconservatives and using the word "betrayal," I think we can chalk up another tally mark on our wall.

Let's hope this is a bestseller, confuses plenty of Southerners, and makes both Lott and Frist look bad.

And, in closing, Trent, I'm sorry everybody hates you.  But I'm sure your mom still kind of likes you.  And next time you want to say "by barring the black folks out," don't try to muddle things up by saying "peacefully and administratively."

•  You forgot a choice

  No - I have no interest whatsoever in reading anything written by or for this person.

  by Ernest T Bass on Thu Aug 18, 2005 at 05:29:18 PM PDT

•  take him to the woodshed

  and all the rest of the crazies

  by chabuka on Thu Aug 18, 2005 at 06:53:28 PM PDT

•  What would it look like if I checked the book out

  of the library and it ended up in my FBI file?!

  by inclusiveheart on Thu Aug 18, 2005 at 07:21:24 PM PDT

•  Won't have need for that book.

  We have indoor plumbing.

  by strack on Thu Aug 18, 2005 at 07:32:56 PM PDT

•  I actually will read it. I loathe both

  Frist and Lott so I will enjoy seeing Lott make a complete ass of himself and I will also enjoy seeing him crap all over the rest of the party.  I will not buy it; however, I expect it will be offered free for something or other like O'Reilly's books always are so I will probably get one in a box of Crakerjacks.

  by macmcd on Thu Aug 18, 2005 at 07:58:04 PM PDT