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Lott will leave the Senate. Newt quit, Livingston quit, so will Trent.

Senate goes back to 50-50, after Dem Gov. Ronnie Musgrove appoints a DEM successor, who doesn't have to run again until 2006.

Senate goes back to 50-50, after Dem Gov. Ronnie Musgrove appoints a DEM successor, who doesn't have to run again until 2006. Your are incorrect on that detail. He will be forced to run in 2004. Appointed senator can serve no longer than 2 years. This is why Carnhan was forced to run again in 2002 instead of 2006, the year that Jim Talent will now have to defend that seat.

Lott's goose is cooked. Sooo, The question isn't really whether he should step down as majority leader, but how to do it.

A good way to do it would be to have Lott say "I will step down as majority leader because of the appearance of past racist views, ON THE CONDITION that Senator Byrd steps down from his post for THOSE SAME VIEWS!"

Kills two birds with one stone! If the scum are going to pull you down, might as well drown some of them with you.

If Lott leaves the Senate, it will be his last great act of betrayal of the conservative cause, which he has placed in jeopardy already.
The Republican majority in the Senate is far more important than this ass's blow-dried ego.

He should allow the Republican caucus to elect someone else as Majority leader, because this is a political party office and his peers are the appropriate venue to make the decision.

Having proven he is incompetent to act in the role of national leader, he should sit down, shut up, and take his seat in the Senate as the Senator from Mississippi, until the voters of Mississippi decide they want someone else.

There is no virtue at all in keeping Lott as Majority Leader, unlesss you count it a virtue to defiantly stick your tongue out at the demoshits. But be clear that as long as he is there, he is a large stationary target for every racebaiter in the 'rat party.

As such, he will eventually have to step down anyway, under a firestorm of duress, and that will cripple the credibility of the Republican Party.
It will confirm for a generation the 'rat propaganda that the GOP is a bunch of throwbacks who need to be dragged kicking and screaming into the
Post-Civil War era.