Uh-uh.
It's the REPUBLICANS' fault. If they hadn't been so stupid as to allow the smear against Lott to stand, this tactic wouldn't have legs.
It ain't LOTT they're going after, it's ALL REPUBLICANS.
Pubbies are gonna run out of leaders to run off or censure before this dies down.
This is also correct. If Rove was such a genius then he would have called Lott ASAP to tell him to CLARIFY the remarks NOT apologize. This was not done. The Bushies were silent, then distanced themselves as soon as possible to leave Lott (and the party) dangling by fingernails.
Legs?
Had Lott shown some cojones at the get-go, and taken his own hard stand to ward off a smear, this whole thing would never have GROWN legs in the first place.
If Lott had done ONE THING in his own behalf, besides grovel to protect his own hide that is, maybe THIS Republican would have cut him some slack.
As one poster put it so eloquently last night: Lott tossed a grenade to the dems, then failed to fall on it before the dems threw it back into the GOP's face.