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Byrd may lie in state
Politico ^ | June 28, 2010 | Erika Lovley

Posted on 06/28/2010 1:05:11 PM PDT by Second Amendment First

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To: BenLurkin
Poster Boy for Term Limits.

Indeed. A doddering old man who should have been an embarrassment to the voters of West Virgina and who was in office far, far too long. 58 years in congress. That's absurd! Byrd's undeniable racist roots and penchant for 'talking conservative' and voting liberal are well known. For this man to be accorded the honor of a 'state funeral' and 'lying in state' is just wrong. However, in these times, where it seems everything is upside down and wrong is considered right, it may well occur. Yet another diminishing of the word 'honor' when it's applied to people like the late senator Robert C. Byrd.

101 posted on 06/28/2010 2:42:25 PM PDT by Jim Scott
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To: Second Amendment First; ohioWfan

Important note: Liberals also try to include Jesse Helms in the list, but that is incorrect. They were defined by membership in the The States’ Rights Democratic Party, in the election of 1948. At that time, Helms was a newspaper city editor of The Raleigh Times. The SRDP dissolved after losing that election, though they came close to being a spoiler which would have made Republican Thomas Dewey, not Harry Truman, president. Truman won in a squeaker.

Though Helms later did join with the Dixiecrats, he was not a charter member, so does not get that label. Oddly enough, neither does Governor Orville Faubus of Arkansas, who led the standoff against integration of the Little Rock public school system against Eisenhower, and was later Bill Clinton’s mentor.


102 posted on 06/28/2010 2:53:28 PM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy
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To: US Navy Vet

He’ll be buried at the Robert Byrd Memorial Park just past the Robert Byrd Bridge (over Robert Byrd River) off of WV state route Robert Byrd, on top of Robert Byrd Mountain in Robert Byrd County, West Byrd Virginia.


103 posted on 06/28/2010 2:54:35 PM PDT by constitutiongirl ("Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal."---Leo Tolstoy)
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To: Second Amendment First

So, he’s dead?


104 posted on 06/28/2010 2:55:03 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: ez

They mentioned it on ABC this morning. They made sure to point out several times that his membership was very, very brief (hinted that it was a stunt to garner votes) and they mentioned a few times that it was the biggest regret of his life. yada yada yada


105 posted on 06/28/2010 2:57:04 PM PDT by constitutiongirl ("Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal."---Leo Tolstoy)
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To: Second Amendment First
Byrd may lie in state

Why not? Who could ask for a more perfect symbol of everything that's wrong on Capitol Hill?

106 posted on 06/28/2010 3:02:00 PM PDT by Interesting Times (For the truth about "swift boating" see ToSetTheRecordStraight.com)
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To: bikerman; xsmommy
Senate leaders are likely to make a request for Byrd to lie in state

Lord knows he lied in the District of Columbia enough, might as well let him lie in state too.

107 posted on 06/28/2010 3:02:33 PM PDT by VRWCmember
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To: Second Amendment First

Open casket? Hood on or off? Is there sufficient ventilation in the Capitol rotunda for a burning cross to pay a proper tribute?


108 posted on 06/28/2010 3:02:58 PM PDT by montag813 (http://www.facebook.com/StandwithArizona)
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To: Second Amendment First

LOL...he just hangs around and hangs around

Even after death can’t get rid of this SOB


109 posted on 06/28/2010 3:03:24 PM PDT by A_Former_Democrat
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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy

West Virginia may be below the Mason-Dixon line..but West Virginia is not considered a part of Dixie. They opted to secede from Virginia and side with the Union.


110 posted on 06/28/2010 3:16:31 PM PDT by bushpilot1
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To: Second Amendment First
The campaign to replace Byrd has begun, and his appointed replacement will also have to run in November, if he or she has the stomach for it.

Lie in State indeed? If Byrd can lie in state, so will Barney Frank.l Look at the wonderful loan swerviceshe has provided to the sodomite community. (Why will they have him laid face down?)

What a clown show.

111 posted on 06/28/2010 3:23:38 PM PDT by Candor7 (Obama .......yes.......is fascist... ...He meets every diagnostic of history)
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To: ez
"Wanna post bets on whether the network news mentions his membership in the KKK?"

CNN mentioned it this morning.

112 posted on 06/28/2010 3:32:19 PM PDT by Mila (I)
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To: Puppage

Sorry Puppage, I understand how you meant it now.

Thank you.


113 posted on 06/28/2010 3:45:44 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (06/15/2010 Obama's Shame-Wow address...)
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To: Dem Guard

I agree.


114 posted on 06/28/2010 3:47:11 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (06/15/2010 Obama's Shame-Wow address...)
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To: DoughtyOne

I can’t believe I’m the first on the tread to say:

BARBARIC!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-V95eGgZbrU


115 posted on 06/28/2010 4:02:09 PM PDT by tnvol01 ("...answering that question w/ specificity uh, you know, is, is, uh above my pay grade.")
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To: Mojave

It might be. Certainly would make it easier to find should one wish to leave some yellow liquid.


116 posted on 06/28/2010 4:02:08 PM PDT by oneamericanvoice (Support freedom! Support the troops! Surrender is not an option!)
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To: tnvol01

Thread....thread...the word is thread.


117 posted on 06/28/2010 4:05:12 PM PDT by tnvol01 ("...answering that question w/ specificity uh, you know, is, is, uh above my pay grade.")
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To: ZULU
How come the Kleagle gets to lie in state and Republicans get dumped for congratulating old Jessie Helms???

Or Strom Thurmond, for that matter.

118 posted on 06/28/2010 4:09:09 PM PDT by Colonel_Flagg (No apologies.)
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To: Second Amendment First

Well what can you say some people can fit nicely in a twin sized sheet and others require a king sized, with a dust ruffle - and a few matching curtains. No, he has no business lying in state. I’m all for allowing people a chance to reform, but it’s pretty clear from his statements that he never disavowed the Klan.


119 posted on 06/28/2010 4:10:03 PM PDT by sanjoaquinvalley (Long Time Lady Lurker)
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To: BenLurkin

West Virginia should be renamed Byrdistan.


120 posted on 06/28/2010 4:31:04 PM PDT by Elsiejay (.)
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