Someone mentioned Sen. Byrd - Something that really pisses me off...

[HardWorkingDem]

I get so frigging tired of conservatives that use Byrd's long, long ago KKK history to contrast the prejudices of people like Lott, Bush and others. I have this one co-worker that just loves to bring up this crap from what, sixty years ago and is so full of shit that he is unable to have the integrity to admit that sixty years worth of good deeds and a person who has changed is completely different than the thoughts and acts of one who only apologizes after getting caught with their pants down.

[nini]

1. At least Byrd turned himself around and has tried to fix things

can these other shitheads claim the same?

[Ian David]

2. Right up until he voted for Scalito, anyway. n/t

[nini]

3. I mean in general....

I hated that f'ing vote for alito too. But compared to the others throwing the kkk in his face after a million years is BS

[Ian David]

4. I wonder if he voted for Scalito because of something arising from...

The Franklin Coverup

http://www.thelawparty.com/FranklinCoverup/franklin.htm

Some people say.

[nini]

5. I bookmarked that one for later review

looks might interesting. :wow:

[hopein08]

7. Very interesting...

But why would that make him vote for Scalito? Did I miss something?

[Ian David]

10. Apparently the GOP has blackmail material on the clientelle...

and some of that clientelle are Democrats.

[hopein08]

15. But why to you think that Byrd was involved?

Or is it just a wild guess?

[Ian David]

17. Some people say. n/t

[Yupster]

6. I cant say I blame them

If a republican Senator was a former knight rider of the Ku Klux Klan, Democratic activists would be throwing it in his face his whole life too.

It's not like he knowingly hired an illegal immigrant or spoke in front of a racist group after all. He was actually a member of the Klan, and a minor official in fact at a point in time where the Klan had been discraced and was only a shell of its once-powerful self.

Neither Jesse Helms or trent Lott or Strom Thurmond ever joined the Klan.

There are some mistakes in life that are so bad that you have to live with them for the rest of your life, and being a Klansman is one of those.

[Bridget Burke]

12. Well, Byrd will live with being ex-clan because folks like you....

Keep bringing it up.

I still don't think that makes him worse than Helms, Lott or Thurmond.

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[greenbriar]

8. He is a class husband!!!

"Erma and I are complete and whole, a total that is more than the sum of its parts," Byrd said of his wife on their 65th wedding anniversary in 2002. "In my life, Erma Ora Byrd is the diamond. She is a priceless treasure, a multifaceted woman of great insight and wisdom, of quiet humor and common sense."

[podnoi]

9. Republicans don't believe in forgiveness

There is no forgiveness in their world... whether it be your economic past (banckrupcy legislation), or your other past mistakes. Which is quite interesting, considering they think they are the party of Jesus.

[AtomicKitten]

11. They can't help it. It's Limbaugh/Hannity gossip that's just repeated

... like the retarded parrots they are. The GOP wrecking machine has many franchises.

[Freddie Stubbs]

13. Sixty years of good deeds?

How about his filibuster of the Civil Right Act of 1964? :shurg:

I won't argue with you that Senator Byrd did eventually the right path, but it did take him quite a while to do so.