by Patrick J. Buchanan – January 1, 2003

If Republicans thought that tossing Trent Lott off the sleigh would slow the pursuing wolves, they were mistaken. The moral shakedown of the GOP, for Lott’s sin in telling 100-year-old Strom Thurmond he would have made a great president, has only just begun.

On Dec. 27, Al Sharpton got the meeting he had demanded of Lott’s successor, Sen. Bill Frist. From the report by James Lakely in the Washington Times, Al laid down terms of surrender.