[jwalsh07]

I am adamnatly opposed to Trent Lott stepping down from ML leader at this point in time and I and a few others like sinkspur have been making that case all week long.

Appeasement never works, ever.

[William McKinley]

Yeah, I understand that we aren't on the same page about that. But I do think we are on the same page as to what, in the absense of the circus, would be best for us.

[William McKinley]

By the way, I agree with you that appeasement never works. But I do not see this as a case of appeasement.

No matter what we do, the race baiting poverty pimps are going to castigate us. Period. They won't be emboldened if we dump Lott. They won't be satiated if we do. Appeasement is giving something an oppressor wants to them hoping to get them to ease up. They won't ease up, and they don't really want Lott gone.

The people we would be making a change for are ourselves for our own moral integrity and political benefit when aiming at the voters we hope to sway. We would not be making a change hoping that the baiters would stop. They won't.

In other words, other than for our own integrity, the people we are aiming for are not needing appeasement. The undecided voters are not the ones clamoring. But they are ones who will be listening in a few years to all the ads, and they are the ones who will be watching what we say and do.