I think that's right. The support for Lott from his own party was a mile wide and an inch deep.
There were a lott of people screaming for his hide on here long before the birthday party. When the birthday party remarks happened, they just stepped back and let him hang himself.
That's ok, that's politics. But it did further exacerbate the situation in which we find ourselves where the rats and msm believe if they can just screech loud enough, people like "embattled majority leader Tom Delay" or "combative Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld" will eventually cave in and quit and get out of the way like Lott, and Newt, and Linda Chavez, and a number of other high-profile repubs.