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I'm with you on this one. It is strange, all the hang Lott posts on FR today. If he needs replacing it can be done on our time scheldule and not Jessie Jackson's or Al Sharpton's. Lott needs all the support he can get right now all this is is an effor to disrupt Senate for a few months. As Lott stated a few days ago. This Senate only has about 6 months to do anything useful. After that everyone starts worrying about the next election and the Senate comes to a stall. If the Demos can disrupt a few of those six months then it hurts Bush. That is what this is all about.

You absolutely correct. Too bad a lot of FReepers who dislike Lott for other reasons can't see how they are playing into Dem hands on this one. After all, whose to say that if Lott is forced to resign as Majority Leader, he won't step down from his senate seat altogether? Then the Dem governor of Mississippi would get to pick a replacement.

All the Republican senators should have a group photo op supporting Lott and supporting his leadership....but they won't. They should go on the Sunday shows, not just to defend him, but to denounce the race-baiting RATs...but they won't. All the Republican senators should write a letter to the NYT, the WP and the WSJ supporting Lott and denouncing the tyranny of RAT PC and the bullies on the Congressional Black Caucus...but they won't.

From one of these hang-Lott threads:

Sorry to those who think I'm making too much of this. But it seems to me that the G.O.P. has zero credibility on racial matters until they get rid of this man as Senate Majority Leader.

Lott's remarks are, in fact, a direct insult to black members of the administration and the Republican Party.

You are making too much of this. The problem is that you're setting the bar by what certain virulent racists, Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, say about the matter. You're doing what I heard a network news reporter do just this morning when he said "...Lott said that the United States would have been better off if it had followed the policies of then-segregationist Strom Thurmond." This is a misleading indirect quote. Considering the source, it was probably a deliberately misleading indirect quote. And then people like you, who should know better, become all exercised and begin clamoring for whatever it was that those who have abused the incident desire for their own partisan political and racist purposes. Do you really like giving yourself over to being such a tool?