The ones responsible now are people like Peggy and
the Family Research Council, National Review Online editor Jonah Goldberg, radio talk show host Laura Ingraham, columnist Andrew Sullivan and others have joined Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton
http://www.cornellreview.org/nsogart.cgi?num=107
So why are these “girly boys,” as Ann Coulter once called them, acting as if Trent Lott burned a cross on Colin Powell’s lawn? Most of them have ulterior motives. Andrew Sullivan, for instance, wants to prove his social liberalism to moderate readers. Opposing the right-winger from the Deep South is a natural way to achieve that goal.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/805592/posts?page=54#54
Trent Lott is an a**hole and a moron and must go. His punishment should be to STAY in the senate but not as majority leader, a job he has never done well.
Anyone who spends any time defending this twitt on "philosophical grounds" has a room temperature IQ.