Rest in Peace.
He was mocked here, many times, and perhaps rightly so. Now he is gone. Let the family mourn, let his friends cry, and let’s let him go into eternity with little rancor.
I hope the evil old bastard rots in hell.
I don’t agree. It is not healthy for the country as a whole to participate in the pretense that those who have murdered millions of babies, raided the Treasury of billions of dollars, and made life more miserable for tens of millions of Americans, while shredding the Constitution, are members of the body politic. They are alien combatants against the American people and the Constitution.
He was all of those evil things, and a gasbag extraordinaire.
He was mocked here, many times, and perhaps rightly so. Now he is gone. Let the family mourn, let his friends cry, and let’s let him go into eternity with little rancor.
Amen. Didn't agree with his politics, but respect his years of service to our country. And he was always fun to listen to.
Best that can be said is he now has eternal term limits.
Agreed. He is out of office now, it is personal.
Years ago I sent a letter to Mr. Byrd’s office thanking him for his DOMA defense on the senate floor. I’m not one of his constituents (I live in MI) but I received a very nice, personal letter back and a copy of the congressional notes in which his speech was published.
RIP Senator. We may have disagreed, but I’ll definitely say a prayer for your family.
Well said. God rest his soul.
Yes. Let the members of his old KKK group morn his loss in private. I am sure that Sen Byrd will be conforted in the fact that he was covered one last time in a white sheet at the hospital.
Sen. Robert Byrd was nothing more than a racist protected by the DNC.
1) Byrd is the only Senator to have voted against the nominations of both Thurgood Marshall and Clarence Thomas to the United States Supreme Court, the only two African-Americans to have been nominated to the court.
2) Mr. Byrd allied himself with Richard B. Russell, the powerful Democratic senator from Georgia and architect of the filibuster against the Civil Rights Act of 1964. He joined Southern Democrats in opposition to the landmark legislation, which outlawed racial segregation in schools, public places and employment. Relying on licorice pellets and sips of milk for energy, Mr. Byrd filibustered for more than 14 hours in an effort to bury the legislation.
“Men are not created equal today, and they were not created equal in 1776, when the Declaration of Independence was written,” Mr. Byrd proclaimed during the filibuster. “Men and races of men differ in appearance, ways, physical power, mental capacity, creativity and vision.”
“Go into eternity with little rancor.”
IMHO Robert Byrd split Hell wide open at 3 o’clock this morning.
Thanks for saying that right up front, Recovering.
Aw, c’mon. We didn’t suffer Teddy to go out with little rancor. Some people deserve rancor. The man was a sheet-wearing klansman. That alone deserves mockery.
The guy was a KKK leader. None the less he served the longest term in the history of the United States Senate.
And he served as a Democrat.
No, I won’t be allowing this POS to drift off into some dream state as Democrats will be want to do.
This man could not have served as a Republican in the Senate of the United States. The Democrats would have torn him to shreds.
Everyone is a racist, but a Democrat. That’s what they have been pounding into our brains in the 59 years I have been alive.
So no, I won’t be letting this racist prick off the hook.
If you’ve served as a leader in the KKK, you’re done. That’s something I don’t give second chances to get right.
Read about his record. He can go straight to hell, and not pass Go or collect his $200 dollars.