I’m sitting here at NR World Headquarters without a TV, but just reading on Lucianne.com that Trent Lott, appearing on BET, has endorsed affirmative action. Oh, for Pete’s sake! [Which is the family-friendly version of what I actually said.] If that’s true, Lott shows himself to be a politician weak on any principle aside from Saving Himself, a man who can be mau-mau’d into coming out for a reverse-racist policy that he clearly doesn’t believe in, just to save his own job. He’s melting down. Republican senators now have the obligation to perform a mercy killing by removing Lott as their leader, before he sells out conservative principle any further.