I'm confused.
I've been hearing from Republican posters on other boards for years now how evil Sen. Robert Byrd, D.-WVa., is because in his youth he was a member of the Klan.
Now, I see they are targeting Byrd's seat and plan to attack him because ... he's an ultra-liberal!!!! WTF??
http://dailymail.com/static/apnews/?story=ap0072r.phpNational Republicans set sights on ByrdCHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) -- The GOP intends to defeat Sen. Robert C. Byrd by declaring him "the most liberal member of the Senate'' if he runs for re-election as expected in 2006, a Republican official said Thursday.
"The National Republican Senatorial Committee believes that West Virginia has moved out from under Sen. Byrd politically,'' group spokesman Brian Nick said.
The GOP slapped the same tag on fellow Democratic Sen. John Kerry in last year's presidential race. But Nick said that was based on Kerry's votes for only a few years. As the Senate's longest-serving member at 47 years, Byrd offers a much larger voting record, Nick said.So which is it? An evil racist Klansman or "the most liberal member of the Senate?"
Maybe he's both. Yeah, that's it! Byrd must be the head of the liberal wing of the Ku Klux Klan.
How clever of those Republicans to figure out Byrd's evil plan.