That argument doesn't hold up when one considers how the Democrats reacted to Chris Dodd saying this of former Klansman Robert Byrd:
"I do not think it is an exaggeration at all to say to my friend from West Virginia that he would have been a great senator at any moment. "He would have been right at the founding of this country. He would have been in the leadership crafting this Constitution. He would have been right during the great conflict of Civil War in this nation."
Democrats defended Dodd back then they way they are defending Reid today.
-PJ
AMEN! This should be the Front and Center Quotation for the RNC Battle Cry!