[Chancellor Palpatine]

Au contraire. The evidence is more like that he harbors some strange ideas regarding the GOP and the traitor Jefferson Davis, saying they were similar while playing games with neo Confederate groups. When you consider that as an experienced politician, he knew this history and ran his mouth anyway, yet seems mystified that people would be disgusted, you know something is wrong.

And let me ask this about Thurmond. Where is he in all this? Why hasn't he stated how wrongheaded those former views were?

[freebilly]

And let me ask this about Thurmond. Where is he in all this? Why hasn't he stated how wrongheaded those former views were?

The man is 100 years old. You actually want him making public declarations?

[ambrose]

And let me ask this about Thurmond. Where is he in all this? Why hasn't he stated how wrongheaded those former views were?

You're joking, right? It has been "Weekend at Bernies" for the past couple of years. Strom has literally LIVED at a DC Naval hospital. All he has done is walked down to the senate floor and voted the way his chief of staff told him to vote.