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Oh man! There’s a quote from Frank Luntz tonight on Hardball that’s so choice it’s almost beyond belief. We’re going to be waiting with bated breath for the transcript to pop up on Nexis.

Basically, Luntz said that the “problems” Lott was talking about, which voting for Strom Thurmond would have avoided, were Bill Clinton’s moral and sexual lapses. If ever there was a statement so ridiculous that the speaker deserved to be laughed out of three dimensional space, buddy, this is it.

Meanwhile, Chris Matthews is actually pretty good on the Trent Lott stuff, talking about the Dixiecrats and their exodus into the Republican party. The guy was up there speaking truth to power. Or at least to Bill Bennett. Same difference, basically.

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