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Doing, trent lott is probably better off as a loifbt and not a senator -- a lobbyist and not a senator. but it's important as a country to know that basically trent lott couldn't stay on as a senator. he certainly couldn't stay on as the top republican senator in washington once he was caught on tape talking the way he did about strom thurmond and his segregationist run for president. at some point, guys like, this the politics of guys like this, became something that normal politics choked on. there did used to be a lot of these guys around. and for a while, it felt like they were all going t...

-- a totalitarian state in these united states. >> strom thurmond running for president in 1948 to stop the totalitarianism of civil rights and desegregation. he ran and did all right, lost. it was 1954 before south carolina was ready to elect him to the senate. and south carolina would not stop for another 40-plus years until strom thurmond became the oldest man ever in the united states senate. he still holds the one-man filibuster record for the more than 24 hours as a one-man filibuster against civil rights legislation. even at his 100th birthday, everybody was still talking about strom th...