GOP right long frustrated with Lott | csmonitor.com

Even before his racially charged remark heard round the world, Trent Lott was no favorite with some of the nation's most vocal conservatives, who are now lobbing the biggest boulders to hasten his ouster.

Yes, they don't like the fact that a careless remark at a birthday party could fling open half a century of Republican Party history on race.

But the real beef against the man now slated to be Senate majority leader is that he has never been the tough fighter for their goals that many conservatives wanted on Capitol Hill.

This was a campaign more by the right than the left. Politically, it is thought better to have Lott damaged.