Reply #178: That is exactly what would happen if Byrd left office, buff2.

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Byrd's replacement would be chosen by West Virginia Governor Joe Manchin, who would pick himself. You think you've seen DINOs before? Wait till you get a load of this guy!

Neither people of color nor Democrats in general would find a better friend in Joe Manchin than in Senator Byrd.

In the NAACP's Congressional Report Card for the 108th Congress (spanning the 2003–2004 congressional session), Byrd was awarded with an approval rating of 100% for favoring the NAACP's position in all 33 bills presented to the United States Senate regarding issues of their concern. Only 16 other Senators of the same session matched this approval rating. In June 2005, Byrd proposed an additional $10 million in federal funding for the Martin Luther King memorial in Washington, DC, remarking that "With the passage of time, we have come to learn that his Dream was the American Dream, and few ever expressed it more eloquently."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Byrd#Voting_record