[Utah Girl]

No, I don't think Empty Lott will or should resign as Senator. He hasn't done anything that warrants that. But the Majority Leader is a political role, and he has lost his mo-jo....

That's what I think also. Lott has made some incredibly dumb moves over the years, but this last one shouldn't mean that he step down as a senator, just as majority leader.

[Bitwhacker]

Lott's Strom Thurmond remark == Gerald Ford's "I don't think the poles consider themselves to be under Soviet domination" remark....So bone-crushingly stupid that you can see the balloon deflating even as everyone says it's still OK.

And Lott did it twice, 20 yrs. apart, same words. Only Dems can get away with something like that; Lott doesn't have an Eleanor Clift to spin for him on Capitol Gang....

[kayak]

I'm going to state my case one more time and then shut up on the subject.

If Lott steps down as ML in the midst of all this hullabaloo, we will pay .... and pay ..... and pay. There will be all the appearance of us caving to the PC garbage and to the Sharptons and the Jacksons of the world. We will have taken the bait they're dangling in front of us ...... and we'll never manage to wiggle off that hook.

The next time it won't take something so obvious (even though this really isn't obvious ..... they're just telling us that it is and we're believing them) for them to demand that someone resign ..... and the precedent will already be in place.

I still think that any and all conservatives should respond by bringing up the name of one Robert Byrd ..... who said something far more blatant, on national tv, and wasn't joking.