[Fred Mertz]

Getting rid of Lott will improve race relations. Just ask Maxine. [/sarcasm]

[over3Owithabrain]

Well I see Rush-bro wants the ol' boy to continue being a drag on the party. He can't even bring himself to emphatically state that Lott is not a racist, just that he doesn't think so and we can't tell for sure the meaning of Lott's words. Never does he address, just like all the misguided Lott hangers-on, the fact that being an idiot for starting a major imbroglio, handling it horribly, and giving away the GOP agenda to save ass is reason enough to dump Lott as ML.

[Wild Irish Rogue]

" "How can they jump on him when they're out there repressing, trying to run black voters away from the polls and running under the Confederate flag in Georgia and South Carolina?" Clinton said Wednesday in New York. "I mean, look at their whole record. He just embarrassed them by saying in Washington what they do on the backroads every day."

What exactly is it,that Bill Clinton thinks Republicans do every day on the back roads? Lynch blacks? Drag blacks? I demand an apology on behalf of all Republicans!!

[Txslady]

David Limbaugh has said it well!

[what's up]

Eventually Republicans are going to have to deal with these incessant, outrageous allegations that they are racists

True...I think it's time to say enough is enough.

If Lott is dumped they will attack the next leader the next time he makes a comment which can be twisted to to their advantage.

It will never end.

[jwalsh07]

He's been reading my posts but he didn't get to the post groveling one's yet.

Having said that, the odds of TL remaining RML have gone up considerably for several reasons.

John Lewis in what I believe to be an honest show of Christianity believes in redemption.

Second, other democrats with more insidious poltical calculations have decided to hop on board with Congressman Lewis.

Third, McConnell stood tall and made it clear that this would not be a one way street.

Fourth, Lott has somehow and from somewhere found the courage to just say NO.

And fifth, the republican senate is rebelling from Karl Rove telling them who the next leader of the senate will be.

So, if I'm right we end up with a weakened majority leader lacking moral authority to carry forward the conservative agenda. That's the bad part.

But perhaps America will finally have the courage to debate the race issue openly. On that I am less hopeful based on what I have seen here. Even here on an anonymous forum a frank and open discussion is verboten.

[Post Toasties]

Lott should step down as Republican Majority Leader for the sake of his party. He has tainted himself with his segregationist remarks and he appears to want to spread this taint throughout the Republican Party by obstinately refusing to resign his leadership role, which he has showed himself too politically inept to retain by merit.

[Post Toasties]

How did the Republican Party let a former Democrat segregationist become its Senate Leader?

Aargh!