[GraniteStateConservative]

Well, there's the rub. He'll either say he's completely stupid-- the Forrest Gump of the Senate-- or he'll say he really wishes a Dixiecrat had won in 1948. Either way he'll get hammered hard.

[usmc_chris]

Or, perhaps he will say that he was rendering an encomium to the country's longest serving Senator and that nothing more should be read into his tribute?