So be it, man. I am so sick of these people who don't understand that there was nothing else the GOP could have done with Lott. Either it was get him off the stage or let him stay, making him the alleged bigoted standard-bearer for the party as long as he remained as Majority Leader.
The jerks who insisted that Lott remain to avoid the appearance of capitulating to the race hustlers are the probably same ones who were cheering on Pat Buchanan's prime time speech at the 1992 Republican convention. By being reckless with his words, he, to a lesser extent than Lott, gave the Demos high-caliber ammunition against President George H.W. Bush. Bush 41 lost that election. George W. Bush, when his turn came, made sure that there were no Buchanan bombshells on the agenda at the 2000 confab, resulting in criticism from the left that there weren't enough white people on stage!
Buchanan boosters have their nerve telling the GOP what they should be doing with their newly acquired clout, seeing that he was greatly responsible for them not gaining it sooner. I think these critics of "neo-cons" should shut their pie holes until one of them actually wins an election. Then they will at least have a shred of credibility.
Huh? Buchanan?
The GOP did exactly what the extreme left wanted done. Not what Buchanan wanted.
And personally, I didn't care one way or the other if Lott stayed or went.
In the big picture, I doesn't matter anyway. It was just a sideshow under the bigtop tent in DC.