The two are not one.
You can have a discussion after you dump Lott.
If you try and defend Lott by pointing at them then you are simply as Liberal as they are. There is no moral equivalence.
Lott said what he said. It is wholy seperate to what anyone else has said. They are his remarks. He has apologized, fine now he alone should whether the storm...any conservative defending him is an idiot.
Now if a Conservative wants to simply point out the hypocracy..then fine. If we want to talk about it seperate from defending Lott then fine but trying to link the two is just plain foolish[IMHO]. :o)