[mhking]

If we have trouble getting black conservatives to look past these comments, imagine how difficult it will be to convince swing voting minorities to look past it? The entire party needs to tackle this, not just Trent Lott because it is the entire party who will face the attacks. And the first thing the party has to do is get Trent Lott out of his leadership post. That should be enough for everyone but the professional poverty pimps.

Oh, yeah. It'll be mighty difficult to discuss this rationally with swing voters.

On the other hand, I think the problem will be just as difficult once the "professional poverty pimps" get wound up after Lott is drummed out of the leader's chair. They'll settle for nothing short of Lott's complete ouster.

This is going to be VERY difficult at best. A large measure of how this falls will be predicated on the reaction to Lott's contrition speech on the talking head shows today and tomorrow.

[Tall_Texan]

If Lott doesn't leave on his own, the answer is simple. We tell then Lott will resign when Byrd resigns. In fact, if we can get Lott to step down and yet stay in the Senate, I'd hope they'd turn it around on them and said "we disciplined our problem, so why do you still give leadership positions to the Klansmen in your ranks?"