Progressive or Not: Former Democratic Senator Robert Byrd (VA)

[Dante]

Progressive or Not: Former Democratic Senator Robert Byrd (VA)

What was his voting record over the years and his positions during Senate and Democratic caucus debates?

Sen. Robert Byrd not only was a KKK member but led his local Klan chapter | The Daily Caller

Robert Byrd - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

one link is a misanthropic rant .. see if you can spot it

 

[Kosh]

This from the poster that thinks Bill Clinton was/is a progressive.

To bad you have no idea what that term means other than what your far left programming tells you.

To a far left loon, success is 2.5 kids and a dog in a middle class suburb. To a conservative, success is how each individual defines it.

 

[Dante]

poor Kosh

 

[TheOldSchool]

Progressive or Not: Former Democratic Senator Robert Byrd (VA)

He was from West VA. Don't dump that asshole on the better Virginia.

 

[CaféAuLait]

Only thing that comes to mind about Byrd is his use of the term "white n******" in 2001 and his KKK membership...

 

[DriftingSand]

If anything he did or voted for helped usurp our Constitutional rights or helped usher in anything resembling Marxist ideology then he was (is) un-American; thus, a progressive.

 

[Little-Acorn]

Progressive or Not: Former Democratic Senator Robert Byrd (VA)

"Progressive" in terms of making progress? Of course not. He was a charter member of a party spouting failed, long-debunked socialism as its main agenda.

"Progressive" in the sense that he realized that the American people were finding out just how repellent the agenda pushed by modern "liberals" was, and so he went along with dumping the term "liberal" to fool people into thinking he wasn't one, and adopt the misnomer "progressive" to fool the same people into thinking what he was doing had something to do with "progress"? Yes, he absolutely was one of those.

 

[Dante]

Progressive or Not: Former Democratic Senator Robert Byrd (VA)

He was from West VA. Don't dump that asshole on the better Virginia.

Really? "West Virginia became a state following the Wheeling Conventions, in which 50 northwestern counties of Virginia whose landowners owned few to no slaves decided to break away from Virginia during the American Civil War."

[MENTION=39852]TheOldSchool[/MENTION]

 

[Bombur]

What is the point of this thread?

 

[The2ndAmendment]

What is the point of this thread?

To somehow arrive at a connection between KKK Democrat Byrd and Classical Liberal (Libertarian) Ran Paul, since he won the CPAC poll.

Basically their dumping their shit onto conservatives and then saying "conservatives stink."

 

[Dante]

What is the point of this thread?

Progressive or Not: Former Democratic Senator Robert Byrd (W VA)

consider: What was his voting record over the years and his positions during Senate and Democratic caucus debates?

 

[AvgGuyIA]

Byrd was a democrat. Therefore he was a racist because his party was racist.

 

[LeftofLeft]

Progressive or Not: Former Democratic Senator Robert Byrd (VA)

He was from West VA. Don't dump that asshole on the better Virginia.

What is the better Virginia? Aren't we 57 states equal?

 

[NYcarbineer]

About the only thing a conservative would agree with Robert Byrd on was his opposition to the 1964 Civil Rights Act.

 

[GreenBean]

About the only thing a conservative would agree with Robert Byrd on was his opposition to the 1964 Civil Rights Act.

Civil Rights act 1964 Only 61 percent of Democrats supported that bill, versus 80 percent of Republicans.

Voting Rights Act of 1965 - Written by Republican Senator Everett Dirksen - 94 percent of Senate Republicans voted in favor of the bill versus 73 percent of Democrats. The final vote on the House version - only one Senate Republican voted against it compared to seventeen Democrats.

Bill Clinton was big fan of Robert Byrd....

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhAuj3OXHDI"]Clinton Endorses Ku Klux Klan via Robert Byrd eulogy[/ame]

Rather I should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds. - Democratic Senator Robert Byrd

 

[The2ndAmendment]

About the only thing a conservative would agree with Robert Byrd on was his opposition to the 1964 Civil Rights Act.

Didn't LBG block the Eisenhower Civil Rights Act and then pass the exact same law while he was President? He has a famous quote for it too:

"I'll have these ******* voting Democrat for the next 200 years." - President LBJ

 

[O.R.I.O.N]

Progressive or Not: Former Democratic Senator Robert Byrd (VA)

He was from West VA. Don't dump that asshole on the better Virginia.

PFT! You couldn't be farther from the truth. Give me West Va ANY DAY over Va.

 

[blackhawk]

He's dead to quote Hillary Clinton what difference does it make now.

 

[GreenBean]

About the only thing a conservative would agree with Robert Byrd on was his opposition to the 1964 Civil Rights Act.

Didn't LBG block the Eisenhower Civil Rights Act and then pass the exact same law while he was President? He has a famous quote for it too:

"I'll have these ******* voting Democrat for the next 200 years." - President LBJ

Yes Johnson did help block Eisenhower era Civil Rights act, but he was a brilliant politician and realized the way the wind was blowing. He is also credited with the following statement in a speech to fellow Democrats...

Starting in the 60s Democratic Strategists realized the importance of the Negro vote and began courting African Americans. The Civil Rights movement was already gaining steam thanks to initiatives began by President Eisenhower. President Johnson gave a speech in which the Democratic courting of African Americans is rationalized.

These Negroes, they're getting pretty uppity these days and that's a problem for us since they've got something now they never had before, the political pull to back up their uppityness. Now, we've got to do something about this; we've got to give them a little something, just enough to quiet them down, not enough to make a difference. for if we don't move at all, then their allies [The Republicans] will line up against us and there will be no way of stopping them, we'll lose the filibuster and there will be no way of putting the brake on all sorts of wild legislation, it'll be reconstruction all over again - Lyndon Johnson

History of The Democratic Party Racial Agenda

 

[NYcarbineer]

About the only thing a conservative would agree with Robert Byrd on was his opposition to the 1964 Civil Rights Act.

Didn't LBG block the Eisenhower Civil Rights Act and then pass the exact same law while he was President? He has a famous quote for it too:

"I'll have these ******* voting Democrat for the next 200 years." - President LBJ

None of that is relevant to the fact that most conservatives on this board oppose the 1964 Civil Rights Act,

in other words, they AGREE with the Southern Democrats that opposed it.