[Dan Day]

If the Democrats keep pushing this, we have ammunition to throw at them (Byrd and the "white ni**er" remark).

...which will be perceived as us saying, "so what if we're racist, so are the Democrats"...

Brilliant, just brilliant.

It would be a repeat of Clinton's "everybody does it" defense.

Rather, we should replace Lott so that we're making the statement, "we won't tolerate racism or the appearance of racism, even if the Democrats do..." *Then* we would have the moral high ground to fire cannons at Byrd and the rest.

[twyn1]

I wish that what you say could happen -- that the Republicans would take the high moral ground, dump Lott and show the voters (esp. the black voters) what hypocrits the Democrats are

However -- I live in the real world -- and there's little chance that the scenario would play out like you say -- the Black caucus will scream for Lott to resign his Senatorship, now that he's been proven to be a racist, they'll tar all Republicans with the "racist" brush, and they'll seize the high ground themselves, while the Republicans slink off to lick their wounds and regroup -- as the minority party of the Senate