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"He's a liability we can't afford."

I have wished that Lott be replaced as majority leader for a long time, but you don't seem to realize that for him to step down now, for this reason, is a no-win situation for the Republicans. If he resigns from the Senate, he will probably be replaced by a Dem and the Republicans will lose their Senate advantage. If he steps aside but keeps his seat, the Dems will still say that he taints the party and that the party is full of racists and racist-tolerators, which is exactly what they will say if he remains the majority leader. So there is no advantage to the Republicans for him to step aside. In my opinion, stepping aside would in fact be worse, because this would be interpreted by the Dems as saying, "Yes, I am a racist, and I have been a racist all along, and the racist Republicans made me their leader," whereas if he remains he can say "I was misunderstood, I am not a racist." And eventually this will go away.

"He's a liability we can't afford." I have wished that Lott be replaced as majority leader for a long time, but you don't seem to realize that for him to step down now, for this reason, is a no-win situation for the Republicans. If he resigns from the Senate, he will probably be replaced by a Dem and the Republicans will lose their Senate advantage. If he steps aside but keeps his seat, the Dems will still say that he taints the party and that the party is full of racists and racist-tolerators, which is exactly what they will say if he remains the majority leader. So there is no advantage to the Republicans for him to step aside. In my opinion, stepping aside would in fact be worse, because this would be interpreted by the Dems as saying, "Yes, I am a racist, and I have been a racist all along, and the racist Republicans made me their leader," whereas if he remains he can say "I was misunderstood, I am not a racist." And eventually this will go away.

If we follow this logic and wait for a new spineless move on his part, a new vote for ML could happen. Would be much more favorable than giving in to BS Dem prropaganda.

I have wished that Lott be replaced as majority leader for a long time, but you don't seem to realize that for him to step down now, for this reason, is a no-win situation for the Republicans. If he resigns from the Senate, he will probably be replaced by a Dem and the Republicans will lose their Senate advantage.

Clearly there is no cause for him to resign from the Senate..not over a stupid statement like that. Others have kept their seats after committing far worse offenses.

If he steps aside but keeps his seat, the Dems will still say that he taints the party and that the party is full of racists and racist-tolerators, which is exactly what they will say if he remains the majority leader. So there is no advantage to the Republicans for him to step aside.

I disagree. The Dems who kept Torricelli on after his censor, who have an x-KKK member etc. etc, would look like nit-picking bitches and hypocrites for claim Lott's presense taints all Republicans. Especially if they try to carry this on after Lott is out of the spot-light as Majority Leader.
However if he stays on as Majority Leader, then they can continue to target him and the Republicans for keeping him as their Majority Leader. This option out of the question.

In my opinion, stepping aside would in fact be worse, because this would be interpreted by the Dems as saying, "Yes, I am a racist, and I have been a racist all along, and the racist Republicans made me their leader," whereas if he remains he can say "I was misunderstood, I am not a racist." And eventually this will go away.

I think it's too late for that. He's already apologized, and made it clear he wasn't just sorry people were offended, but that he was genuinely sorry for what he said. That it was wrong. He called his statement "terrible" etc.

He can't very easily now go back to claiming he was just misunderstood. (even though he tried that on Hannity today)

And I don't think there's a chance that it will "just go away". The Democrats won't let it. And as long as he is Majority Leader they will be able to keep it going.