The pundits do, and until now I always considered them dumber than the average FReeper.
You don't go from being the Majority Leader to just another back-bencher. It just doesn't happen; it's like a professor who doesn't make tenure. He doesn't just go back to his office and say "ah, well, maybe next year!"
When you are denied tenure, you LEAVE.
When you get a "no confidence" vote as a Prime Minister of a government, you call a snap election and step down.
I mean, do you read or watch television or do anything to expand your horizons at all?
Of course I know Lott can't stay. I said so DAYS ago on FR. When did it dawn on you?
It has been obvious since then that the only practical and honorable thing for Lott to do is to step into the background and go back to doing the work of a Senator instead of playing court jester for the liberals.
Then maybe we can have a Leader who is credible and sensible and proactive and doing the critical work of making our majority permanent.
NOT when the control of the US Senate rides on your ability to humbly do the right thing for your country. Even you guys admit the guy is dead meat. But you keep brandishing the threat that he might step down to try and bring people in line. ARE YOU SLOW? It didn't work several days ago, and it won't work now....it just infuriates people when someone tries to club them into submission!
You accuse me of being ignorant of politics, but you don't even seem to have the simplest knowledge of human nature.
Conservatives can't be driven like cattle, they must be led!
They are patiently waiting for leadership...but their patience is wearing extremely thin....like me, they are sick to death of cr*ppy leaders like Lott.