If A Klansman Is Your "Conscience", You're No Moral Paragon
Hugh Hewitt, Blogfather, feels pretty good about the upcoming judicial war against the Dems:
Update:
Senator John Cornyn delivers the goods against Byrd in the form of noting Senator Byrd himself argued for Senate rules changes limiting filibusters and the ability of the minority to avoid voting on the floor four times.
Robert Byrd: hypocrite, bigot, Democrat.
IF THE GOP sets up the confrontation with care, it could set the Democrats back another ten years. The American public knows that a simple majority is the essence of fairness, and that the number "40" does not appear anywhere in the Constitution. They also know that Democrats have raised the bar highest for nominees with orthodox religious views; their campaign against Catholic judge David Pryor is especially offensive. Imagine the handicap newly announced Democratic Senate candidate Bob Casey--the pro-life Treasurer of Pennsylvania--will face in his race against incumbent Senator Rick Santorum given his party's bigotry towards devout Catholics like Pryor. Is Casey serious about making the argument that the rights of the unborn will be better off with another Democratic vote added to the caucus of obstruction? And if Casey promises to be open-minded about judges, will the GOP hesitate to point to newly elected Democratic Senator Ken Salazar of Colorado--who took less than two months to reverse his campaign position that all judicial nominees should get an up-or-down vote?
Update:
Senator John Cornyn delivers the goods against Byrd in the form of noting Senator Byrd himself argued for Senate rules changes limiting filibusters and the ability of the minority to avoid voting on the floor four times.
Robert Byrd: hypocrite, bigot, Democrat.
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How long does a guy have to be clear of an organization for you to let him off the hook? He recanted and joined the party of civil rights, when the republicans were fighting tooth and nail against them.
Republicans Trent Lott, Rick Santorum, and others have been greater paragons of bigotry than Robert Byrd was in his racist youth.
So let me get this straight---the man who joined the most virulently racist and murderous terrorist group in American history---the Ku Klux Klan---who was an ardent segregationist, and who actually filibustered the 1964 Civil Rights Act the Democrats use to stake their claim as "The Party of Civil Rights" (when it was the small minority Republicans without whom the bill could not have passed)---this man was somehow better on civil rights than Trent Lott, who wished Byrd's fellow segregationist Strom Thurmond a happy birthday? I have no idea what you think Santorum did.
OK---let's grant you this for a moment.
Byrd shouldn't open his racist mouth on the floor of the Senate based on his use of the word "nigger" in a public interview in 2001. That was hardly a youthful indiscretion then, was it?
Here's the link:
http://archives.cnn.com/2001/ALLPOLITICS/03/04/byrd.slur/
As for the Democrats being "The Party of Civil Rights", you might want to dig out that high school history textbook, where it's highly likely you'll find that the GOP was the party founded on the abolition of slavery (opposed by---ahem---the Democratic Party) and that it was the "Radical Republicans" who not only passed a slew of Constitutional amendments recognizing black men as equal under the law to white men, but also seated the first black congressman and senators while in control of the conquered South during Reconstruction.
You'll also no doubt recall that it was the Democrats in the South who instituted the Jim Crow laws and segregation after Reconstruction ended, and it was the Democrats in the south who used the KKK and other racist organizations to solidify political power.
As a guest, sir, you are entitled to my respect and to polite discourse, which you have and will continue to have.
To defend a Klansman is beneath you. You won't hear me defend Strom Thurmond. You won't hear me defend George Wallace.
There's a good reason why I won't: their virulent racism and willingness to use it as a springboard to power repulse me.
Why do you suppose the same Democrats who found Trent Lott's birthday praise for dying Strom Thurmond so reprehensible laud Byrd the bigot as "The Conscience of the Senate"?
I suppose it is because they have no shame, sir---no shame at all.
Thank you for reading and for sharing your thoughts. While I cannot agree, I am grateful for them nonetheless.
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