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.
Agreed. He hardly rated the vitriol we reserve here for the real bad guys.
On the opposing team no doubt.
I often wonder how folks like him who were social conservatives in the first half of their lives when almost everyone was got so disjointed.
or did they just acede to the trend?
He could easily have gone GOP I would think and held power or was there something about West Virginia where a white social conservative could not easily slide to the GOP 40 years ago like a Dixiecrat in Mississippi or Alabama could?
Byrd at least knew what the damn rules were and that was the best thing I can say about him.
I’ll miss him for only one thing. He has provided my wife and myself with endless hours of entertainment with his gasbag oratory. Byrd is one of two people in the public eye that can make me laugh so hard I start crying.