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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: PartyTime who wrote (61879)12/15/2002 5:00:49 PM
From: JohnM  Read Replies (5) of 281500
 
Another consideration is this whole thing is being staged from a Rovian strategy such that Nickles calls for a new vote and that vote is a fixed one whereby Lott gets reaffirmed, thereby providing him with the legitimacy for his future role as majority leader. Considering Nickles is in line for a powerful committee chairmanship, Lott will look good by letting him have it even though Nickles, the current whip, called for a new majority leader election.

Digging deep here. Nickles is no longer the current whip. That's McConnell. Story goes that Nickles and Lott had not gotten along for some time; everyone knew that Nickles would oppose Lott on the first sign of weakness; so Lott found a way to dump Nickles and have an early election for majority leader right after the Nov. elections.

I assume McConnell floating the story about Lott resigning is simply a way to get folk to keep Lott in place. If it plays out that way, he will be damaged goods.

Another scenario, Lott loses his majority leadership but, can't resign. Any job he would take in Washington after leaving the Senate, one of those lucrative lobbyist jobs they all get, depends on his ties to the Republican Party. He can't resign from the Senate putting control in peril and hope to retain this Rep ties.

Not a happy place for him right now.

I still view it as part of the Nixon legacy, trying to get the white Southern, previously Dem, vote in 68 and 72.
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