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These political character assassins have already turned their attack dogs on Pickering's politics, but more recently they've pulled out one of their dirtiest yet most reliable tricks - the race card. They are trying to brand Pickering, a Mississippian, as an old school Jim Crow era racist, and in doing so they are grasping at every straw that comes along. The Dems have dragged out everything they can find on Judge Pickering to tarnish his reputation and attempt to associate him with racists.

Senator Fritz Hollings, a South Carolina Democrat known for his Foghorn-Leghorn style speech mannerisms and his uncanny habit of using racial slurs against minorities. Senator Hollings is also the governor who placed the Confederate battle flag on the South Carolina Statehouse in the 1960's (remarkably Hollings avoided practically all scrutiny for this act when the media and the left were blasting George W. Bush for simply stating that the flag was an issue for the people of South Carolina to decide). His racial slurs on the public record include derogatory racial remarks about Blacks, Hispanics, Jews, and even African diplomats, most of them unfit for reprinting here.

The second Senator is none other than the man the Dems call the "conscience of the Senate," their ex-majority leader Robert Byrd, D-WV. Though we rarely ever hear about it, Byrd actually served as an officer in the Ku Klux Klan during the early days of his political career. As he rose to higher political offices and eventually the U.S. Senate, Byrd attempted to distance himself from this dubious affiliation.

Yet a letter by Byrd emerged, dated three years after he claims to have permanently ended his affiliation with the KKK, in which he writes "The Klan is needed today as never before and I am anxious to see its rebirth here in West Virginia." Byrd was also the Democrat Senator speaking on the floor of the Senate in filibuster against the 1964 Civil Rights Act when Republican Minority Leader Everett Dirksen realized he had gathered enough votes to invoke cloture and pass the legislation over Democrat objections from Byrd, Albert Gore Sr., and 19 other Democrat Senators who opposed the bill. Byrd's disgusting racist kick is apparently still in him, as he used a vicious racial slur on national television less than a year ago.