[Luis Gonzalez]

"...not over some breech of the PC speech code..."

Lott was cappo of the Senate Republicans, and he blew it.

He was outsted for his incompetency as Senate Majority Leader.

[sheltonmac]

"He was outsted for his incompetency as Senate Majority Leader."

You can keep telling yourself that all you want, but that doesn't make it so. If incompetency was the real issue here, Lott would have been gone long ago. By the way, if he isn't fit to be Majority Leader, what makes him fit to be in the Senate at all?

[billbears]

Sorry Luis doesn't fly. Lott was ousted for one reason only, offending those of the NAALCP and other racist organizations for making a non committal statement about a great statesmen that, as has been pointed out, could have meant many things.

Does that mean Lott should have stayed in the position before this happened? Of course not. His stance changed so often one would think he was a liberal. However to throw him to the multicultural wolves as a way to get him out of that seat was a mistake that conservatives will be paying for for years