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"You're right. You've convinced me. Let's give leadership of the Senate back to the dem's so they won't call all of us racists anymore."

Unless Trent Lott is an unmitigated and unprincipled scoundrel, having him step down as Majority Leader does not affect the balance in the Senate. He remains a Senator.

On the other hand, if he would rather quit -- and give the seat to the Democrats -- rather than remain in the Senate (the only scenario likely to give the Dems control of the Senate) -- he has, in my opinion demonstrated that he is unfit to continue as Majority Leader. Senators are elected to represent their states. Lott can represent his state without being either Majority or Minority Leader, and the Republicans would have been better off with him in neither position. For any Senator resign his seat because he was deprived of a leadership position is to demonstrate that Senator puts his own prestige above the interests of either his party or his constituents.

Is that the type of person *you* want running the Republicans in the Senate? If so, what is the difference between you and all of those Democrats that backed Clinton, knowing what type of a weasel he was, because it was important that he remain as President.

Again, the difference between Dems and Reps is that to Democrats, the cult of personality is all. To Republicans, values matter, competence matters, and there are no irreplaceable office holders.

Unless Trent Lott is an unmitigated and unprincipled scoundrel, having him step down as Majority Leader does not affect the balance in the Senate. He remains a Senator.

It has nothing to do with him being a scoundrel or not. If he is forced to step down he has as much as admitted guilt 'as charged'. Why would he want to continue on in the Senate as a self branded racist and bigot and put his family through that? He would be worse than a scoundrel he would be an idiot to do that.

But that is just the short of it. Why has the left made an issue of this in the first place? To have him replaced as ML by a more conservative Republican? Bwa! They only really benefit if he relinquishes his Senate seat and that is their goal.

Since Nov. 6th they have been wracking their brains and licking their lips for the opportunity to regain their senate majority. They have no reason to be appeased by his stepping down, falling short of their goal. The dem's have never been appeased about anything before, why now?

They have played the race-guilt card masterfully. They have gotten all the Republican pundits to feel so squeamish about being branded Racist Republicans that they are doing the dem's dirty work.

We seem to have short memories here. What did Torricelli say it was about? What did Lautenberg say it was all about? What did the dem's scream it was about at Wellstone's funeral?

THE PARTY!!!

If Lott steps down as leader he will hand them the lever they need to pry him out of his seat. If Lott goes that way that will be the enduring memory of his whole career which the dem's will use as a stamp to brand the Republican party with for a long time.

To Republicans, values matter, competence matters, and there are no irreplaceable office holders.

Baloney! If that were the criteria being used Lott would have been gone a long time ago. It's a little late and a lot stupid to get religion about Lott now.