Of course. When you're wrong, you're wrong. When you're right, you're wrong.
DeLay stepped in it the day he gave his denunciation of Michael Schiavo. While I have no respect or use for Michael Schiavo, DeLay's personalization and demonization of an American citizen was perceived as crossing a line.
A line he's now crawling backwards over.
Hopefully he'll just shut up now. He can still survive but has to zip it for a while.