[grania]

If Lott stays, we can all say bye, bye to the newly won GOP Congressional majority come 2004 and maybe the Presidency cause the GOP will be potrayed as a "racist" party with a "racist" leader

And if Lott goes, the GOP will be portrayed as the party which dumped a leader once he developed a greater understanding of race-related concerns.

Face it. Senator Lott never said anything racist. You're crucifying him on what you thought he meant. I'm beginning to respect Senator Lott. He isn't going down easy!

Are there any posters from Mississippi out there? I'm wondering how this is being perceived there.

[Austin Willard Wright]

"Greater understanding!?" Lott's only new statement on race-related policy thus far is support for "affirmative action across the board." Is that what you men by his "greater understanding?"

[rightwing2]

And if Lott goes, the GOP will be portrayed as the party which dumped a leader once he developed a greater understanding of race-related concerns. Face it. Senator Lott never said anything racist. You're crucifying him on what you thought he meant. I'm beginning to respect Senator Lott. He isn't going down easy! Are there any posters from Mississippi out there? I'm wondering how this is being perceived there.

Quite the contrary. I agree that Lott should not step down for what he said, but rather for the fact that since Bush and the RATS viciously denounced and renounced him, he has become the political albatross of the Senate Republicans and indeed the entire Republican Party. He has been completely neutralized. He cannot any longer work as an effective leader to enact the Republican agenda. However, remember that it was Bush and the RATS not conservatives like me who blew his remarks out of proportion. Even so, Lott's lack of political insensitivity is galling and his groveling to the race-baiting left since then is embarrassing.

[OldFriend]

I am from Joisey, but have supported Lott from Day 1. I don't approve of lynching, plain and simple, mob rule, or media feeding frenzies either.