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You paint a cartoonish, but colorful (and adjective filled) portrait of Duke. I can't really blame you, at the time he ran for Governor, Duke was subjected to a smear campaign previously reserved for the likes of Joe McCarthy. I recall watching Larry King Live at that time (I can't imagine why I was watching it, but I was), and his guest was actress Valerie Bertinelli. Larry somehow managed to introduce the topic of Duke's gubernatorial campaign into their infantile conversation. The completely disinterested Bertinelli took quite a while to catch on but eventually followed her cues and agreed with Larry that if Duke were elected, her husband (burned out rocker Eddie Van Halen) would boycott the state. The campaign against Duke became so intense that major newspapers actually published the names of individuals who had sent him contributions. Unprecedented and thoroughly despicable. Therefore, while I'm not exactly a fan of Duke's, I think he behaved much better than all of his numerous, powerful enemies. And yes, given a choice between him and a criminal like Edwards, I would definitely have voted for Duke.

Look, I took the effort to read some of your other comments in the forum, and see that you are in Tom Davis's district, as I am, so my guess is that you don't really know David Duke very well.

I am from Louisiana. I lived in Baton Rouge near the LSU campus when he was a student at LSU.

I've known David Duke since 1969 or so. He used to speak at Free Speech Alley at LSU when my mother went there. He was preaching a message of racial segregation, and anti-Semitism. He believed then that blacks are inferior, that they should not be able to live in white neighborhoods or marry white people. He believes that the law should prohibit this.

He was the Grand Wizard for the KKK. The KKK threw him out for stealing from them. Do you know what the KKK stands for?

He then started a White Power organization. Do you know what White Power means?

Did you read what I wrote about my husband and I seeing him and some of his friends dressed as Brownshirts at a screening of Triumph of the Will? Do you know what Brownshirts are (Nazis). Do you know what Triumph of the Will is (a movie about how wonderful the Nazi party is.)

If you are a fan of the Nazis, I hope you are lying about working for Tom Davis, because he doesn't need Nazi sympathizers.

My opinion of Duke had nothing to do with any "smear campaign." I had watched him from the time he was Grand Imperial Gizzard of the KKK in the 1970s. He was well known to people in Louisiana long before he ran for office.

The man was a NAZI! That isn't a "smear campaign," it is the truth. If you would vote for a Nazi over a crook, you have a problem.

By the way, I often said that if Duke had just come out of the blue, sans KKK and Naziism, I would have knocked on doors for him and campaigned on his behalf. The things he said in his campaign were absolutely right. I agreed with him on virtually every point.

But, when it came time for him to renounce his KKK and Nazi past, he refused to do so. That cost him my vote and the election, as well.