Lott was the paragon of the emasculated Senate, he borked himself, and continues to do so.
It makes no more sense to blame those who knew he had to go early on, than it does to blame his defenders for prolonging things.
We're all doing what we have to do. It's all healthy and necessary, under the circumstances, and Lott is responsible for those.
In other words you won and you are not willing to take credit for the consequences good or bad....well the bad anyway. That is not a big surprise.