This is why I'm so uncomfortable with all the Lott bashing on the right. It leads to:

But this discussion shouldn't really be about Mr. Lott. It should be about how a man who sounds like Mr. Lott came to be leader of the Senate.

If Lott is such a bete noir, how did he get where he is? Of course, the same question applies to other Senators from the South with racist histories. The only one I've seen who points out that Lott isn't as bad as everyone else would have us believe is Mark Levin.


Lott himself is too dense to realize that he's a goner as far as Majority Leader goes. The only explanation for all of this is that a lot of conservatives have disliked him for a long time and see this as their chance to dump him. Or maybe the "Big Tent" of the Republicans just isn't as big as the Democrats'.