Despair
A Corner correspondent, reflecting on Trent Lott, Cardinal Law, and the possibility that Lott may manage to get enough support from fellow Republican Senators to allow him to hang on, poses some pointed questions:
If Trent remains, what does the world look like come January 7th? More pointedly, do you envision a time when the President can again appear in the same room with the Senate majority leader? (I can't.)Posted by Dr. Frank at December 19, 2002 01:00 PM | TrackBackCan you then justify electing a leader who subsequently becomes for the president his party's own Yasser Arafat, with whom he will never meet nor shake hands? Will you put the President in that horrible position?
Forget about the passing of a conservative agenda -- can the party or the conservative movement themselves hold together and withstand that strain?
So, in the end, if Lott is incapable of doing the right thing, who will?
And if the answer is, not nearly enough to make him go, then what?
My sense is: GOP despair, dividedness, destruction, self-inflicted death. Of course, I may be overstating things. But what if I'm not?"