Not sure why you are categorizing me in such a way.  I can assure you that you are wrong.

I appreciate the reference to my spine and butt. However, I'm not a member of the PC mafia. Stick with butts and spines you know more about.

I take exception to being called "politically correct."  If there is one thing I am NOT is politically correct.

My dislike of Lott has absolutely nothing to do with his remark regarding Strom Thurmond.

So don't lump me into those who you call "spineless, politically correct critics."

I am very conservative.  As a matter of fact, it is my opinion that we should have supported Lott a lot more strongly then we did during that whole episode with Strom Thurmond.  I agree the Republican party needs a backbone. That's why I believe we should get rid of old weak leadership and install new leadership that is reminiscent of Reagan and supports the "Contract with America"

Michael M Bates, maybe ... liberals need personal thinking assistants.

Well, come on, you didn't put much thought into suggesting the Nazi salute, either.

michael, the theme itself does not require much thought or analysis.  an absurd suggestion  is all you have offered.  should we request cnn to ad a false cation to the pic- heil hitler?  would that be politically correct in your eyes?

"we can stand down only when the lazy bums can stand up"- alfred e neuman 

Roger the Shrubber - again, it was the Republicans who forced Lott out (neither the Democrats nor the MSM have any control over who becomes Republican Senate Leader)

BILL KRISTOL (The Weekly Standard): I'm not sure. It really depends on whether his colleagues want him to be majority leader, to be Republican leader of the Senate for the next two years. Again, no one has really called on him to resign as senator from Mississippi. Lott, I think, is alighting the differences between resigning as senator and serving as Republican leader. My sense from talking to Republicans on the Hill is they would prefer to have another leader. My sense from talking to people in the White House is that they would prefer to have someone else of the 51 Republican senators be the Republican leader for the next couple of years. The question is: Will the White House push Lott hard? Will the White House help encourage another Republican senator to stand forward and offer himself as an alternative to Lott, or at least another Republican senator to step forward and say, 'Senator Lott must go.'

Mr. E.J. DIONNE (The Washington Post; The Brookings Institution): Well, first of all, Bill is right. This is all in the hands of the Republican Party and, indeed, to a large degree this has been driven by criticism from Republicans. I think the strongest group in favor of Lott remaining are Democrats, who would like to have him around as leader for a couple of years after all of this.

In my conversations today, you know, Republicans were talking about what a great leader somebody like Bill Frist of Tennessee might make. There are Republicans who are very partisan toward Don Nickles. The problem is none of these people can be the people who push Trent Lott out. And there's a real question of whether there are senators who will take the chance of being the first to push him out and then having a coup fail. You can never try to kill the king unless you succeed, in the old expression.