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He dosen't have a RIGHT to that job.

I wouldn't choose him for the job either but I don't get to vote. It's not because he is a racist but because he gives in to the RATS too often.

I still don't think he should be labeled a racist and run out of the office because someone else SAYS he is. That's WRONG especially when I consider the people who are railroading him nothing but liars and race pimps. I won't fall for the game any longer. Too many people have had to step down because THEY decided who we should have as our leaders only to have THEIR leaders stay on without even so much as a slap on the wrist.

Hillary Clinton got away with a book deal when Newt was punished for the same thing.

Lott said he didn't think he should have to resign or be replaced, and denied that he is a racist. "To be a racist, you have to feel superior," Lott told interviewer Ed Gordon. "I don't feel superior to you at all."

Lott, sitting alone with Gordon in a Mobile, Ala. television studio, continued to insist that he didn't mean anything racial with his Thurmond comments.

"What did you mean when you say 'those problems'?" Gordon said.

"I was talking about the problems of defense, of communism, and budget, of a government that sometimes didn't do its job," Lott said. "But again I understand that was interpreted by people the way it was and I should have been sensitive to that. I obviously made a mistake and I'm doing everything I can to admit that and deal with it and correct it. And I'm hope that people will give me a chance to do so."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63937-2002Dec16.html

I don't think Lott is a racist. I think he has a tin ear and is clueless about how things play in the nation as a whole. He speaks without thinking.

Here is my question: WHO has been advising him? I didn't think his comments were more than a faux pas UNTIL someone (James Carville?) made a point of feeding them to Tim Russert. Then all holy hell broke loose. So who told him to ignore it as it was "no big deal?" Who told him to go on talk radio, rather than hold a press conference? Who told him to go on BET and grovel? Dick Morris has been his political adviser for a long time...that is the culprit, IMHO.

Lott failed to understand that he needed to stop the snowball from rolling downhill. He avoided a national press conference, gave very weak statements, and apparently "forgot" to condemn segragation on Larry King Live, a specific request from the President, which is why the President came out so strongly on Thursday.

I do not want to tar someone with a racist label. I am sick of this whole incident.

However, Lott's appearance tonight (and I didn't see it...I am waiting for the re-run) seems to have betrayed the entire Republican agenda.

I have a great deal of compassion for Senator Lott, who is perhaps an anachronism and just doesn't understand the problem he created. However, the question is not what I think, but whether or not he has the confidence of the Republican senators and also whether he will be able to get legislation through the senate. The rats have effectively set up a counter argument to the obstruction charge: they can claim the moral high ground in protesting Lott's "racism."

Yes, I know they are hypocrites, but that is not the point; they are going to use this as an excuse and it will give them cover.

This is the damage Lott has done. I know it was an innocent faux pas, but it doesn't take away the problem. He has failed to defuse the situation, and has, in fact, made it worse.

What would be your solution to this problem? I don't have a really good answer, but I am confident that if we look for solutions instead of throwing grenades at each other we can figure something out which could be passed on to the White House and the Senate.