The American Spectator

Re: The Trent Lott Problem and all your sundry articles (also click here, here, here, and here) regarding same.

As prosecutor, judge, and jury, I accuse, indict, and convict Senator Lott of Supreme Arrogance and Terminal Stupidity. He is hereby sentenced to relinquish his leadership post forthwith and to assume the position of “Backbencher” for an undetermined period not less than two years from Jan. 1, 2003.

For the good of the Republican party, for the good of Conservatism in all its forms, fashions, ideas, and agendas, for the good of our country, TRENT LOTT HAS TO GO NOW.

p>From a life long (45+ years as a voter) Conservative Republican who has not missed a primary or general election since Nixon’s first run in 1960 who was born and raised to my adulthood and beyond inside the Beltway in Maryland within a half dozen blocks of the D.C. line. br> — Ken Shreve br> New Hampshire /p>

As a proud member of the vast right-wing conspiracy and avid reader of the fifth column’s reporting I have an unanswered question that continues to nag at me.

Why do we care what extreme left partisan’s think?

I see it in this website, the Wall Street Journal’s editorials today, everywhere. For now, this week, today, it’s all Trent Lott all the time.

The Trent Lott thing is the epitome of the left’s personal destruction machine. Yet for some unexplained reason the right continues to participate in its operation.

For example, I enjoy Laura Ingraham’s radio show but all she discusses is what the New York Times says about this and that. Who cares? The NYT is a partisan yellow dog rag!

Jesse Jackson is offended by Trent Lott. Who cares? He’s offended by anything that gets his name in print.

If everyone knows that this is a leftist personal destruction machine in operation why even acknowledge it?