[sinkspur]

This is no leader. This is a loser.

Actually, he's a man with leverage. He'll be leader until somebody can figure out an alternative.

[EternalVigilance]

He'll be leader until somebody can figure out an alternative.

Rick Santorum or Don Nickles.

There. That wasn't hard.

[okie01]

"Actually, he's a man with leverage. He'll be leader until somebody can figure out an alternative."

And, eventually, Lott will lose. Because he is what he is. Not a racist, but a not-so-bright, self-absorbed twerp who has become a victim of the Peter Principle.

The question is how much damage will he do to the party before his continued presence becomes too big a burden to bear?

[WoofDog123]

For some time I have looked at Lott as an 'insider' politician, in that he always works within the system, rather than use the tactic of character assasination, crying to the media, etc, that are hallmarks of the dnc and some gop pols.

I remember after the columbine murders he said '..I'm sure we can get some reasonable gun control bill through' to the media and then sat on it in committee (it never came out, without drawing attention to the fact there would be NO gun control bill passed...he rarely bad-talks anyone to the media (actually i have never heard him say something bad about another politican in public), and before this incident possibly saw himself as having a shot at running for president in 6 or 10 years.

This 'scandal' reminds me of the one where reagan was putting wreathes in a cemetary which also contained SS soldiers' graves somewhere in germany, and a whole hullaballo came up. There had to be a playbook in the dnc war room waiting for lott to to make a vague allusive comment like this, with the subsequent 'leaks' ready to go at timed intervals. I have read that one network even ran the scotus/cross burning stuff right before this lott thing, so you have images of white hoods and burning crosses as you lead into this.

Politics is apart from reality, of course, but what is being attributed in many reports onthis is simply not what he said, and I wonder how much of the american public picks up on the difference.