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For Trent Lott, a proud man and an ambitious one, stepping down as Senate Majority Leader must be a particularly painful experience. Much as we conservatives did all we could to force just such a resolution, now it becomes our duty (even though Lott himself won't appreciate it) to lift him up. Trent Lott was racially insensitive and, in his desperate attempts to hang onto power through clueless apologies, unprincipled in doing an about-face on affirmative action. He has long been as disappointment as the Senate GOP's top strategist, too prone to gaffes, too Beltway-ed, too susceptible to being outmaneuvered...