On their face, the recent comments of Sen. Trent Lott are offensive, repugnant and inimical to what the Republican Party stands for.

The current controversy that has arisen around comments I made on my radio show, based on a willful distortion of what I said, will take away from the serious discussion I wanted to engage in with the students and community at the University of Cincinnati,

The Republican Party is not inclusive.

The Republican Party is too fixated on this fiction of electability.

They're anti-government ideologues who dominate the Republican Party.

For the sake of the country, the conservative cause, the Republican party and even his own long-term career -- he ought to resign.