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There are in actuality only three possible choices for Trent Lott:

1) Remain at his post and fight it out.

2) Resign his Majority Leadership and remain in the Senate, likely as a committee chairman.

3) Resign from the Senate in a fit of personal pride and pique.

If he does number one, the Republican Party, the President of the United States, and by extension the country, will be irretrievably harmed. He is beyond damaged goods...in that position he is worthless as a leader and is in fact an extreme liability.

If he does number two, he will remain a member of the world's most exclusive Club, with all the perks that entails; he will be gauranteed reelection for as long as he cares to stay because the people of MS are in all likelihood going to undergo an extreme backlash to what the left and the media did to 'their guy'; and last but not least, he will finally have what he never had from the beginning of this mess---cover and support form the rank and file of the GOP.

If he is stupid enough to do number three, he will be forever damned politically---hated by Republicans forever, and rightfully so. I have taken to referring to this course as suicide by immolation, because that is exactly what it would be, IMO.

I hope and pray that he is encouraged by Republican leadership in the next hours to do number two.

EV

There are editorials today on NationalReview.com and OpinionJournal.com that perfectly capture the Lott situation. The man is either a racist or a moron. Either way he is an albatross unfit to be majority leader. This latest bit of obtuseness was just the straw that broke the camels back.