Deroy Murdock, in Thursday's National Review had this to say about the fine Senator from Mississippi:
…what are black Republicans supposed to say when fellow blacks ask why we belong to a party whose Senate leader publicly applauded Thurmond's 1948 presidential bid? Thurmond ran, in part, by opposing anti-lynching legislation — that is, prohibitions against hanging black men from trees until dead. If Republicans — black and otherwise — must spend the next two years reassuring Americans that we oppose lynching, we might as well pull white pillowcases over our heads.
Murdock goes on further to call for Lott to surrender his leadership position and "then find himself a cozy seat in the back of the Senate bus." Sounds like a plan to me.