[EternalVigilance]

Wouldn't this man put a better face on the GOP?

I think so!

[Sparta]

Bump for Nickles!!! Lott is a disgrace to the Republican Party and a self-patronizing RINO. He needs to resign and damn him for threatening the Republican majority in the Senate.

[Wait4Truth]

Works for me! He's a great guy. By the way, I just replied to you on our other thread.

[Mr. Mulliner]

I agree. Don Nickles would be a good choice. But he would have been a good choice before Trent Lott put his foot in his mouth. I think there are good reasons for the GOP to have another Senate Majority Leader, but getting rid of Lott over his gaffe is not a good idea, IMHO. Unless and until they can replace Lott at a time when the replacement is completely because they have someone better -- and not because the Democrats and the media made a circus out of his statements about Strom -- I'm not in favor of the switch.

[firewalk]

Here's another bump for Nickles!

[deport]

This is a forgiving country," said Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, who becomes GOP whip in the new Congress in January. "He knows he made a big mistake. It's time to forgive him and to move on. And I think he can still be a very effective majority leader in the Senate."

Several other Republican senators, including John Warner of Virginia and Peter Fitzgerald of Illinois, joined the "enough is enough" chorus.

Sen. Chuck Hagel, R-Neb., said Lott's apology was necessary. "He let his party down," Hagel said. He added, "I know of no one in our party calling for him to step down."

Rhode Island Sen. Lincoln Chafee, a moderate Republican, told The Providence Journal that Lott's remarks smacked of "stupidity." He did not call for Lott to step aside, saying he worries that potential successors might be even more conservative than the Mississippian.

President Bush last week rebuked Lott, but his spokesman said the president did not believe Lott should step down.

Some Republicans have kept silent, including Lott's current deputy, Don Nickles of Oklahoma

[per loin]

The GOP should quit with these halfway measures, and get right to it. Rewrite a couple of minor rules, and give the job to Maxine Waters.

[taildragger]

Vigiance

Yes this would be a great face, as well as Frisk.

I am going to phone the Whitehouse Monday, and Lotts, Nickles and Frisk's office. One ask for Lott's resignation and two to recommend these suitable replacements.

We need to call, Lott dropped the ball on Impeachment, The power-sharing with Tommy Boy and the Jeffords deal and now "this mess", it is time for the door to hit him in the A** on the way out.

If he wants to quit the Senate and take his marbles home with him that is good too.

I woudl rather have Tommy Boy to kick around for 2 years then this Enunch. That is how sick I am off him and this mess he created.

[BJungNan]

Rick Santorum would be a real good choice!

[BlueCat]

I just talked to a legislative director for a huge labor organization and he 1.) wants Lott to stay and 2.) doesn't want Nickles. Why not Nickles? He says he is too smart and 'knows strategy'.

As far as I'm concerned, that's a ringing endorsement.

[Wild Irish Rogue]

Can you guarantee that Nickles hasn't done something silly or offended someone in his entire life?? The new standard is that all Republicans have to be beyond reproach-ironically,unlike "Lot's wife" in the Bible.I hate to imagine what the Democrats and Ms Maxine are planning for Don. "There is no person too nice to be ruined"-is the new Democrat and Congressional Black Caucus motto.

[montag813]

Not again. What is this obsession on FR with Nickles, who has a speech impediment, and is bumbling and ineffective much of the time on TV?

Bill Frist or Mitch McConnell. Those are the best choices.

Besides, Nickles resigned at Whip to become Chairman of the pork-powerful Budget committee.

[Consort]

...Kay can be tough when she has to be.

[jaz.357]

Well he has NICE hair....

[Tigercap]

Whoever it is has to be squeaky-clean

the Rats really think they're on to something and the successor will be put under the microscope by the Rats' willing partners in the media.

[Common Tator]

If Lott goes he will resign from the Senate. It is next to impossible to fire a man who can retire with full retirement benefits and not have him retire. Idiots are saying to Lott, "You screwed up you are fired. But you have to stay on as a flunky or it will hurt us badly." I have found that people who get fired and demoted don't give a damn how leaving hurts the people who fired him. It is just human nature. It is human nature to say, "You want me out.. I am out of here big time.. .bye bye!! Say high to majority leader Daschle for me.'

It is also human nature not to stick around as just a chairman of a committee and endure all the smirks and jokes the Democrats would lay on you. It would be much better for Trent to quit the senate and go home. There is no way a man could stand the redicule the Democrats and the anger the republican would lay on him. Better to quit and go home.

Most people who get removed are pretty vindictive. They talk about payback time. And do it if they can. Lott is a former Democrat Staffer in the House. He was a Democrat for almost as long as he has been a Republican. He knows that Democrats stand behind their people when they screw up.. Did I mention Bill Clinton? Perhaps Lott would just go home to the Democratic party and take Snowe and Chafee with him. Snowe and Chaffee can't stand Nickles. That would have Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton on TV hailing Trent as a truly changed man who saw the light. Can you imagine the coverage of TRENT in the media and at the Democratic Convention of 2004? TALK about DEMOCRAT HERO CITY from the MEDIA.

Trent could obviously do that. I don't think he will. I think he will just resign his senate seat if they fire him as Leader.

When Lott resigns his senate seat the Democratic Governor from Mississippi will appoint a DEMOCRAT to replace Lott.

That will make the senate 50-50. That will set up the bidding match for Snowe and Chaffee which Daschle will almost certainly win. Snow and Chaffee hate Nickles and the rest of very conservative Republicans. They will tell the new Republican leader to put his party where the sun don't shine. They will very very likely cross the isle

The media will play Bush and Rove as the two dumbest men who ever lived. Not once but twice they will have snatched defeat from the Jaws of Victory. The media will make how stupid Bush is to blow winning two elections in just 2 years. It will take him below 50 percent in job approval ratings.

That will also make it 51 Democrats 48 Republicans and Jeffords in the next Senate.

You're gonna love it. When the

Marjority leader that replaces LOTT IS NAMED DASCHLE.

The look on Jeffords face as he takes his Chairmanship seat will be priceless.

[Ben Bolt]

Looking @ the keywords & looking at putting a new face on the GOP is pathetic . Why in the hell would people support a mask when substance is the key to our message ?

[wildbill]

Nickles looks and talks like a sincere country bumpkin. I hope to God the GOP can find someone better than this. I'm afraid that's why Lott hasn't been dumped before this. The GOP Senate simply doesn't have anyone with stature that could be elected to the post of SML.

Lots of OK guys but no one outstanding since whatshisname from Tennessee is retiring.

[Revolting cat!]

How about him?