<HTML>In a message dated 12/16/02 8:46:57 AM Pacific Standard Time, jfisher@igc.org writes: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">no, really. just in case you missed it. http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=29975 "What we are witnessing is the lynching of a good man who made a bad choice of words in a birthday tribute to an old man whose sins are no more scarlet than those of the rest of us." </BLOCKQUOTE> Does this mean Buckley's going all confession and deathbed conversion on us too? I cannot decide whether to hope the Repugs collapse of their own weight over Lott or just to blame Patty Murray, chair of the Demo. Senatorial Campaign Committee. I cannot help thinking if the Demo. campaigns had had a pulse Lott wouldn't be Majority leader to begin with! But I suppose I should look for some polling and election returns numbers to back up that assertion! DoreneC </HTML>