Will Gov. Barbour appoint Mike Espy?

by Richard

Mississippi is going nuts trying to replace Trent Lott should he step down before the end of the year. Word is a possible appointment might be a black democrat turned Republican..what a fitting replacement for Trent Lott.

This of course is the same Trent Lott who said at a birthday party surrounded by press that "when Strom Thurmond ran for president, we voted for him. We’re proud of it. And if the rest of the country had followed our lead, we would’t have had all these problems over the years, either..I wonder what he meant by WE!!

Yes the same Trent Lott who hosted meetings with the Council of Conservative Citizens a white supremacist group. Given this record I think it would be a fitting choice to replace Lott seats with a black man..times are a changing!

According to RedState.org .."There seems to be some whispers about GOV Barbour appointing Mike Espy (D) who endorsed Barbour this year and would switch parties to get the appointment. Espy served as a Congressman in MS-02 from 1986-1992 and then as the first black Secretary of Agriculture under President Clinton.

The Espy family is well known in MS and is fairly conservative. Barbour as a former RNC chair may think about national implications in his selection and appointing the first black Republican senator since Edward Brooke in 1978. Espy would be an unusual pick, but his cross party endorsement last year was an unusual occurrence as well. And MS has the highest proportion of black residents in the nation (37%) and has never had a black Senator.