[ApesForEvolution]

"Lott spent whatever political capital that he had, and his credit limit is now 0."

He started at zero. JC Watts asked him to resign today, the majority of GOP Governors in DC for a national conference asked him to step down, the only conservative 'writer' that hasn't thus far is Paul Weyrich to the best of my knowledge. Do you fail to see what Lott has already done to the Party and conservatives? You underestimate what we're losing with Lott remaining in charge. Have you the BET trancript? Did you watch BET? We've been saying that Lott is a trainwreck waiting for an audience; it happened and it happened on BET Monday night.

[Political Junkie Too]

We've been saying that Lott is a trainwreck waiting for an audience; it happened and it happened on BET Monday night.

I believe that there is an "inside the Beltway" effect that magnifies everything to gargantuan proportions. The Nielsen rating for BET that night show 830,000 people watched (80% boost for that slot). CNN and Fox News come in at the 700,000 to 800,000 mark, too, though normally. I don't think the mainstream audience is paying attention to this, and they're only absorbing what they're seeing on ABC, CBS, NBC, and newspapers. The networks reach millions of homes, but the news is squeezed into only a few scattered hours. Out of the 100 million who voted in 2000, the audience for the Lott show was less than 1% of voters.

Lott will be out, I don't doubt that. I think it will be in January.

-PJ