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Paging elder Majority Leader Bob Dole..your presence is required in Trent Lott's office

[Arkie2]

Phil Gramm quit too soon.

[Sabertooth]

Trent should step aside for "family reasons." He's no racist, but he's a big liability.

[samtheman]

Anybody but Lott.

We still need him in the Senate... he is one of the 51 who gives us the majority.

But he shouldn't be in the leadership, if for no other reason than this whole episode shows incredibly poor judgement for someone intrusted with so much power.

If he can't see the minefields in his own society, how is he able to guide the Republican Senators through the minefields of political decision-making.

This was simple Public Relations 101. And he failed miserably. F-.

[billbears]

The talk has already begun. Lott apologized, gave credence to the argument and now it's all over but the crying. What he said in praise of an elder statesman has been stretched out of context and used against him.

That being said, I'm starting to question some of Lott's views myself on race. I didn't realize he had been tied to the Council of Conservative Citizens

[nypokerface]

Trent Lott may have done the GOP a favor with his stupid remarks. Maybe we can get somebody with real leadership into his position.

[The G Man]

Rick Santorum

[sonserae]

J.C. Watts Jr...

[KansasConservative]

I agree with most others that while he may not be a racist, he definitely is damaging the GOP. Plus the story that came out yesterday that this isn't the first time he's said this about Strom, keeps it alive. I vote for Mitch McConnell (sp?) as Leader.

[yoe]

Tom DeLay, the HAMMER, should take over the GOP Senate and yes, Lott should step aside.

[xzins]

It is extremely clear to me that the very best senator today is Tennessee's, Senator Bill Frist, MD. He is bright, organized, embued with excellent organization and leadership skills.

He's principled.

He led the campaign to elect senators, also. He deserves the reward, but he deserves it more cause he just might be the most capable Republican senator in quite a while.

I'm not a Tennessean

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[Mia T]

The GOP should take its lead from Tom Daschle's instinctive reaction of generosity.

 

Last week Lott was merely Daschle's slow-witted and spineless adversary. Today he is (self-anointed) racist conservative white male incarnate.

 

Why in the world would Bush and the GOP want Lott to stay?

 

Lott is spineless and clueless. He knows nothing about leadership...

 

Because Lott allowed the mutant to remain in office, it is clear he puts himself ahead of the country, the people, the Constitution.

 

And now he has made himself the racist poster boy for the Democrats; they will be able to whip him out at will.

 

If he is allowed to remain in a leadership position, the entire Republican party--including Bush--will be tarred with the same racist brush...

 

Lott must go.

[NormsRevenge]

1 vote for Kaye Bailey Hutchinson. Maybe we need a woman on top of the pile in the Senate for a change.

[GreatOne]

This whole things smacks of being simply another stupid liberal witch hunt, but with conservatives who can't stand Lott joining in as this being the opportunity to finally move him aside.

I can't stand Lott, and hope like crazy that he will somehow not be Majority Leader, because he's a demonstrated incompetant boob. But by joining liberal scumbags in finding something racist in what he says is just wrong. Strom's version of "state's rights" would have prevented Roe v. Wade, the affirmative action decisions, and a whole host of other liberal scumbag judicial activism.

Maybe it would have been more helpful for Lott to have clearly distinguished what he was saying, that he was against the racist policies but for the overall theme, although it's unfortunate that we keep having to say "I have black friends" everytime this issue comes up. But then again, that is why Lott is a bozo and unfit to lead.

I in no way see how someone in 1980 or today can be equated as being a supporter of segregation and Jim Crow just because they say they're for state's rights, and we as conservatives are being foolish to give in to it (again).

[BibChr]

Here it is in two:

1. Lott DEFINITELY should step aside...
2. ...but not for this!

Lott should step aside because he is a weenie, unprepared to lead in such trying times. Then but a Real Man in, someone who can take the hits and give back double, someone who can call hard shots and bring his team in line behind them. Not some mush-mouthed momma's boy who likes to "make nice" more than anything in the whole wide world.

Dan

[PolishProud]

This is a typical response from the wussy right. When the foibles of Clinton were exposed the entire Democrat party defended him, and he didn't resign. I'm no Lott fan. I don't think he's the sharpest knife in the drawer, but for God's sake Republicans get some backbone.

[PJ-Comix]

Don Nickles!

Don Nickles!

Don Nickles!

[randita]

It looks like Trent Lott's going to be tossed out on his ear and it won't make a darned bit of difference. Not one more black will vote for the GOP. The incessant whinings of the various reverends will not cease.

I'm not a big fan of Lott's, but to think that canning him will provide a remedy is a pipe dream.

[RichardW]

He's got to go.

[Consort]

The GOP Senate will probably replace Trent with Strom as Senate Leader until next month's Leadership Election. Then they will vote for Jim Jeffords to replace Strom. If they don't do that, then they will probably do something really stupid.