Posted on 06/09/2005 8:20:12 PM PDT by CHARLITE
Here's good news to the cause of good government. West Virginia Sen. Robert Byrd, styled by partisan Democrats as the "conscience of the Senate" and by those who are less biased as the last troglodyte in the body, could be defeated in his bid for his umpteenth term in the Senate.
He's up for election in 2006, and the latest polling in West Virginia indicates that an attack of sanity and judgment may, at last, be hitting an electorate that has routinely elected the 87-year-old Byrd to the Senate eight times with never less than 59 percent of the vote. A survey by RMS Strategies, a West Virginia firm, shows Byrd barely ahead of Republican Rep. Shelley Moore Capito, 46-43 percent.
Byrd, who still boasts a 62-28 favorable-unfavorable ratio, may have met his match in Capito, who has a statewide rating of 57-35.
While the West Virginia electorate remains 56-32 Democrat over Republican, it is also conservative as opposed to liberal by 67-30.
Nevertheless, West Virginia went for President Bush by 56-43 in 2004 and 52-46 in 2000, and voters who back the GOP nationally are getting less and less forgiving of their Democratic representatives and senators in Congress.
Byrd needs beating for a host of other reasons. His defense of the filibuster was natural, since it was he who conducted a lonely 14-hour attempt to kill the 1964 Civil Rights Act by talking until he almost dropped. He stays in office by being a pork-barrel machine who waxes eloquent, at the same time, on the perils of deficit spending.
If he is the Senate's conscience, the body is in deep trouble.
You don't have to be a Republican to like Capito, just somebody interested in restoring a modicum of integrity, intellectual and otherwise, to the once-august United States Senate.
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It's SOOOOOOOO about time!!!
Yeah but this nut job is so damn entertaining!!!!!
bttt
Robert C. Byrd Drive, from Beckley to Sophia (Byrd's hometown)
Robert C. Byrd Health Sciences Center of West Virginia
Robert C. Byrd Cancer Research Center
Robert C. Byrd Technology Center at Alderson-Broaddus College
Robert C. Byrd Hardwood Technologies Center, near Princeton
Robert C. Byrd Bridge between Huntington and Chesapeake, Ohio
Robert C. Byrd addition to the lodge at Oglebay Park, Wheeling
Robert C. Byrd Community Center, Pine Grove
Robert C. Byrd Honors Scholarships
Robert C. Byrd Expressway, U.S. 52 near Weirton
Robert C. Byrd Institute in Charleston
Robert C. Byrd Institute for Advanced Flexible Manufacturing
Robert C. Byrd Visitor Center at Harpers Ferry National Historic Park
Robert C. Byrd Federal Courthouse
Robert C. Byrd Academic and Technology Center
Robert C. Byrd United Technical Center
Robert C. Byrd Federal Building
Robert C. Byrd Hilltop Office Complex
Robert C. Byrd Library and Robert C. Byrd Learning Resource Center
Robert C. Byrd Rural Health Center
Robert C. Byrd Clinical Addition to the veteran's hospital in Huntington
Robert C. Byrd Industrial Park, Hardy County
Robert C. Byrd Scholastic Recognition Award
Robert C. Byrd Community Center in the naval station, Sugar Grove
Better late than never. Of course he's 87, so you can't get much later.
My question to Bobby has always been "what bleach do you use to get your sheets so white?"
Hey, I thought Loserman was the "conscience of the Senate"? The people of West Virginia deserve better!
But hey I shouldn't be talkin'. I'm stuck with Lenin(Levin)and Stabmenow(Stabenow)....SHEESH!
Char :)
So was Tommy.
Everytime Reid causes my head to droop, I miss Daschle. Reid just doesn't have any charisma.
Yet it's time for Byrd to go. As hysterical as his stories of Esther may be, the time is ripe to knock him out.
Bad as he is, I sort of hate to see him go, after all, we could no longer gloat over the dims having a former KKK member in the Senate.
You forgot the Robert C. Byrd Highway, US33 from Weston to Elkins and beyond.....
Seriously though, the man brought a ton of money into the state and is well loved for it.
The problem with Capito running against him is that another Republican will probably not get her seat. That means no Republican representation for the state in the House.
Dick Morris said it...therefore it can't be true.
Depending on what day of the week it is and what purpose the puff piece serves, the "conscience of the Senate" is either Joe Loserman, John McCainiac, or Sheets Byrd. It also used to be Paul Wellstone and John Stennis.
One thing is for certain, whoever the media proclaims is a "conscience of the Senate" isn't!
So true, BillyBoy, so true!
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