Byrd Hospitalized--Rabid Reactionaries Renounce & Rejoice

Shame on those people. Regardless of like or dislike, such comments are unnecessary, childish, disrespectful and down right disgusting. I may dislike someone but I would never wish them death nor be happy they dead, except maybe a child or woman rapist or a mass murderer.

Just in case, this is not me being a smart-ass or anything, this is my true sentiment. But BTW, 2 wrongs don't make a right even if 2 negatives do make a positive so your attempt at "fighting fire with fire" is actually more shameful than actually making a point.

LMAO... good one KB, but Its amazing to see liberals and people of color defending a high ranking member of the Ku Klux Klan. I can't imagine how anyone could gloss over his Klansman past and his opposition to any advances in civil rights. Yes, you are correct KB... politics can be distasteful on both sides. Thanks for the laugh that was hilarious.

Didn't the left just crucify Rand Paul for saying he would have done somethings a bit different in the 1964 Civil Rights Act? Guess he should have said he would have change parties and voted against it.

As for Byrd, he led a full life. Was probably in office too long. Did more than his share of wasteful spending (pork) in his state (the Byrd highway to nowhere comes to mind). My condolences do go out to his family. I believe it despicable to say hateful things about him personally or revel in his passing, but his recorded (and past as it relates to his performance) is fair game.

Unsurprisingly, the WV SecState (D) has found a way to let the Guvnuh (D) appoint someone, even though the law stipulates a special election be held in this circumstance.  So, the good people of WV will have the dubious privilege of electing two Senators in November 2012, in separate elections, one 'regular' and one 'special', with the 'special Senator' serving out the remaining 5 weeks of the vacated term since filled by an appointee.

Gotta love Democrats.

Yes, I have to admit that left was far kinder to Cheney.  Each time.  And I don't think I ever heard of anyone wishing Bush dead.

So there ya go.  We are what we are.

i'm guessing you meant something other than what you actually stated altho i guess you believe r children and/or female sexual predators are the absolute worst of the bunch.  since you didn't even mention male rape victims, i'm wondering if you have less sympathy for them.

such profundity!  no wonder i'm confused as to whether it ain't not so shameful fighting fire with fire if one wouldn't not do it to make a point.

despite the astronomical odds against doing so, a very few people wind up holding a winning lottery ticket.  similarly given the myriad possible decisions to make or conclusions at which to arrive, an equally small number of individuals not only manage to realize a lifelong error in judgment, but then go on to publicly repudiate and reverse themselves.  within that group is an infinitesimal subset consisting of elected officials. 

deplorable as his racist beliefs certainly were and as much damage as he did while acting on them, characterizing byrd as a high-ranking member of the klan 60-some years after he shed his sheet and in light of his being one of 16 senators who received a ranking of 100 in the naacp's report card on the 108th congress is about as productive as any other session of sadistic bestial necrophila. 

still..

glad you enjoyed it too!

not to worry,

someone need only sue ms tennant's pretty lil behind and then keep appealing til those faux-states righter para-legislators on the high court can give it an activising she'll never forget. 

good thing seein how so frequently it is what it is.

(in the meantime, i'm hopin you'll revisit your mini-jeremiad regarding them sniveling cowards over to the gop).

"There are white niggers. I've seen a lot of white niggers in my time, if you want to use that word." 
 
--Robert C. Byrd (D-WV), March 4, 2001

He allegedly wasn't a racist in 2001... he had 'shed his sheet' right?

Oh, I don't know, maybe you're right.  Guess I'll extend Byrd all the courtesy & comity extended to Strom Thurmond.  And cut his lionizers all the slack cut Trent Lott.

Now that's out of the way, my beefs with Byrd had less to do with his KKK career (anyone can be a bigot and repent) as with his Senate career (not everyone can be as corrupt and unrepentant a thief).

There is general, mostly subconscious consensus on the left that whatever 'bad' you do, whenever you do it, defines and stigmatizes you for the balance of your life and especially your political career... if you are a conservative*.  Only liberals, by definition, are good enough and capable enough people to overcome their prior failings.  And to be forgiven for their youthful (or otherwise) indiscretions, etc.  They must be forgiven because, unlike conservatives, their hearts are in the 'right' place.  Even Eliot Spitzer, FCOL.  There are exceptions, provided they stay out of (or are barred from) politics following 'recovery' (e.g., Chuck Colson).

*Liberals have a built-in advantage here: their only enduring principle is 'Though shalt do as I say, not as I do', a much more difficult principle to hypocritically violate.

Good find, Anthony.

Come on, kb - get it right.  It's necrophilia.  And as a member of the JBNPC (Joyful Bestial Necrophiliac Pride Community) I'm very offended by the term 'sadistic'.  Who are you to say?  It's not a life choice - I was born this way.  So stuff the hate speech.  And I'll make damn sure you're banned from our parade next year - if you show up, the cops will have your number, bud.

I can't believe it.  This would never happen in Canada.

Hah!, Nit-picking, another trait you've had to use more often to make up for what use to be a decent ability to reply with a decent comeback. I can see how the Democrats can bring you in like zombies so easily.

Did I confuse you? I so sorry. I'll use less complicated words the next time. Wouldn't want to be responsible for frying what's left of your medulla oblongata, sorry I meant brain.

And we all know who benefits from racism the most. The NAACP perhaps? What would these people do without each other?

surely the bible frowns upon beating a dead horse?

gotta love a guy who--unlike such weak sisters as stennis, eastland, wallace and even de klerk--knew you can't reconstruct those who had never been constructed in the first place.

fact is, while he never came out and said it publicly, we all know he really did love at least one black resident of south carolina.

which is why next time i'm over to the white citizen's council lodgehouse, i'll treat trent to an rc cokecola and then join him in a toast to the glorious days when being born white was more important than being right.

Don't forget to spring for the MoonPie.

The reaction is surprising. Sen Byrd did admit that his association with the Klan was youthful indiscretion and he more than redeemed himself by his vote on the Iraq War.

It apperars that the death of his grandson in 1982 made him change his ideas and though one must not forget the past, the senatr has shown great courage.

Worth repeating for Bahu's benefit.  Just in case, that's nine years ago, age 83, not usually what we consider 'youthful'.

Because nobody was arrested after saying they were going to kill obama and about to take highpowered rifles to one of his events.  Nor have there been other saying they want him dead.