Fellow Declarationists,

By now every politically alive American has read the bizzare words of Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott, words in which he told the American People that we'd have been better off had we followed Mississippi in voting for the States' Rights Democrats of 1948.

I have read the Platform of that Party. It is solely concerned with race, and it promises segregation now and forever.

Senator Lott, who had once before, in 1980, expressed a wish that Strom Thurmond, the candidate of the States' Rights Party in 1948 had been elected, and who had the temerity to say that the Republican Platform of 1984 was in accord with the principles of Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederacy and unabashed racist, must resign or be removed from his leadership position. He is either a shameless political panderer to racists or a deeply ignorant man.

The Declaration asserts the right of men to self-government. That requires that they be enlightened and of good character. Pandering is a mark of low character. Ignorance of the history of racial inequality and slavery, the greatest Declaration issue from the Founding until the horrors of Roe v. Wade, is the very opposite of enlightenment. Lott fails to meet one or both of these requirements. He is therefore not qualified to lead the United States Senate.

Lott must go, and he must go now.

It's that simple.