...I forsee a Senator Kerry impersonator showing up at many, many Byrd fundraisers in the near future.
Lost by 13 points!
Posted on 04/10/2005 9:08:30 PM PDT by smoothsailing
Frankly, I'd love to run ads showing Byrd comparing Bush to Hitler on the Senate floor. Let's see "Sheets" try to defend that.
Based on the way they are acting.
Both.
They have actually stated its a high priority they hold the seat for Byrd (bare in mind, this guy has won elections with over 70% of the vote, and when he doesn't, he's around it).
This is the equivalent of the democrats saying they are targeting Ted Stevens in Alaska, the GOP would probably laugh and blow it off, or see it as a poor attempt to make them spend money own their own home turf.
The dems are falling for it, if a party says they are going to work, to protect a guy, who got something like 78% of the vote the last time, and the party commits to fundraisers for him, and spending resources for him, it means they are either nuts, or dumb, or both.
All the best to you, Mr. Lewis!
Actually, he'll be 88 this year (94 at the end of his next term, though I sincerely doubt he'll live to be that age).
It's unfortunate we can't slam Byrd harder. Lewis the candidate perhaps cannot, but how can we take some other kind of approach that posits the question, "Why on earth is the state of West Virginia the only one in the country that in the 21st Century still sends a man to Congress who was not only a member of, but actively recruited for, and endorsed, a White Supremacist/Terrorist organization ?"
It no longer matters what Byrd has "done", but that people like Byrd have no business in any elective body, that he is a part of this country's hateful past. Does anyone around here believe that if Strom Thurmond had belonged to the KKK that he would've survived 39 years as a Republican in the U.S. Senate ? It's just amazing what the 'Rats (and their media cohorts) will tolerate within their party, from outright criminals, to America-haters, to raving anti-Semites, to Black hatemongers and racists, to a White ex-Klansman. Unbelievable.
With all the money poured into WV over the last 20-30 years at the behest of Sen. Byrd, they should all have well paid jobs!
ain't gonna happen. The fraternity of Kappa Kappa Kappa will continue to have a brother in the Senate as long as Byrd lives....
I don't know much about this Mr. Lewis, but he's already my favorite '06 candidate! :-)
In fact, while I served in Operation Iraqi Freedom, Senator Byrd attacked the war, calling it unconstitutional. It hurt to watch my own Senator attacking my service to my country on such a personal level. And, I saw firsthand the effect on morale on the faces of the many West Virginians serving in Operation Iraqi Freedom with distinction.
The bottom line is that Senator Byrd has served his time. It is time for him to retire and ready the reigns for a new generation of leadership.
I believe I have the experience, good judgment and integrity to represent West Virginians proudly. As your Senator, I will bring the same devotion to service to my state that I have brought to my country.
I like him. :-)
I listen to state wide talk radio here in West Virginia. A lot of folks out there are becoming dissatisified with Senator Byrd's performance and feel he has become an embarassment to the state.
The NRA endorsment is huge for Hiram....Byrd doesn't have it.
Hiram is also pro-life, and Byrd is pro-abortion. The Democrats who put life over party will vote for Hiram in numbers large enough to make the difference.
The other candidate mentioned to run against Byrd is Congresswoman Shelley Moore Capito, who is also pro-abortion. I think she knows that she couldn't beat him, and won't run. Hiram could splinter off the pro-life Democrat vote, and she couldn't.
BYE, BYE, BYRDIE!
You sound very optimistic, Chief. :-) That's good. I don't view this as an impossible task, but Hiram definitely has his work cut out for him.
It would be nice to oust pretty, pretty, pretty KKK Byrd.
Road trip for Hiram!
Forgot you on my Veteran ping. Sorry
Hey, maybe they can run for President! Oh, wait. I have it backwards.
Are you questioning my patriotism?!?! :-p
FROM HIRAM LEWIS CAMPAIGN WEBSITE
Inside the Beltway
March 10, 2005
By John McCaslin - Washington Times
Drifting backward
For decades he's brought home the bacon, but outspoken Democratic Sen. Robert C. Byrd isn't popular these days with everybody in his beloved West Virginia.
Politics aside, West Virginia Republican Party Treasurer Hiram Lewis IV says it is upsetting to watch Mr. Byrd "destroy his credibility and become the basis of jokes over the national airwaves which, in turn, make West Virginia look like a backwards state."
He was referring, in part, to recent remarks made by Mr. Byrd (the senator insists his words were taken out of context) that some perceived as comparing Senate Republicans to "Nazis."
"We, unlike Nazi Germany or Mussolini's Italy, have never stopped being a nation of laws, not of men," Mr. Byrd stated. "But witness how men with motives and a majority can manipulate law to cruel and unjust ends."
He then quoted historian Alan Bullock as saying that Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler "turned the law inside out and made illegality legal."
"It is sad to see a senator that has contributed so much to this state over the years be reduced to a bumbling fool," says Mr. Lewis, who adds the 87-year-old Mr. Byrd either must come to grips with the fact that President Bush won re-election in West Virginia by more than 90,000 votes "or retire."
BTTT
...I forsee a Senator Kerry impersonator showing up at many, many Byrd fundraisers in the near future.
Lost by 13 points!
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