No, he can’t survive.
NEWSWEEK’S FREUDIAN SLIP: “Trent Lott had just finished his fourth, and most fulsome, apologia for having praised Strom Thurmond’s stridently segregationist presidential campaign of 1948.” – Newsweek, today. A common mistake. From the dictionary:
1.tOffensively flattering or insincere. See Synonyms at unctuous.
2.tOffensive to the taste or sensibilities.
But this time, completely on target.
COGNITIVE DISSONANCE WATCH: “In 1999, Mr. Lott wrote to the Anti-Defamation League that he “could never support – or seek support from – a group that disdained or demeaned” people because of their race. “I grew up in a home where you didn’t treat people that way, and you didn’t stand with anyone foolish or cruel enough to do so,” he said… Some time later, Mr. Harkey said, he received a letter from a woman who told him that if he did not publish her letter it would prove “you are truly an integrationist and I hope you not only get a hole through your office door but through your stupid head.” It was signed Iona W. Lott – Mr. Lott’s mother. “I called her, asked if she’d sent it to me, and she said she certainly had sent it to me and she meant every word,” said Mr. Harkey, now 84.” – from the New York Times today.
The Dish 