David Duke considering run for Congress

[TexasPatriot]

http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/01/23/elec04.h.duke.ap/index.html

i know the rules... no commentary... (i'll keep the giggling to myself)

[EstimatedProphet]

1. /Got nuthin

What is there to say?

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

2. If he gets elected...

I predict he will become a close advisor to DeLay. Tom's always looking to expand his reach. ;-)

[Mrdirt73]

12. I think he would work better with

Robert Byrd. Just my opinion.

[smiley_glad_hands]

22. Robert Byrd is a Reformed Racist------Trent Lott and Rush Dimbo

are Closet Rascists. I support Robert Byrd 100%---Jackass.

[kurtyboy]

31. Thanks for signin' in--

Don't let the router hit you in the ass....

ON EDIT--This comment was meant for MRDIRT, not you VADEM...sorry.

[8 ball]

39. 8 ball sez:

Many lurkers make replies hazy... try again at another web forum

[Zhade]

46. BYE, Freeper.

Go back to the Bush-loving den of arrogant ignorance. Begone!

[David__77]

3. It would be interesting were he in congress.

I enjoyed his run for senate when Bush Sr. was forced to endorse a relatively liberal Democrat.

[0007]

4. Is the time ripe for a David Duke? LOL!!

Hate to think that this is a serious attempt.

[Guaranteed]

42. This IS serious by him. Racism is making a comeback.

The right-wing a-holes know that they can get away with a whole lot of garbage nowadays. This is disgusting. We HAVE to change this.

[snippy]

43. I agree.

The republican party now honors racism and actively seeks the support of racists. Many non-racist republicans and political pundits defend this by saying that the republican politicians who are courting the support of racists are not really racist themselves, they are just doing it to win.

[arikara]

5. I remember when he ran before

I think it was Vanity Fair that did an article called "The pretty face of hate". It was good.

[madrchsod]

6. the troopers at stormfront

are very happy,he`s their hero..white power! i wonder what they think at freeperville and lucy....

[MidwestTransplant]

7. As a Republican?

[stevedeshazer]

8. Why not?

His views match closely with the Republican Party.

[Gysgt213]

15. I'm sorry, I don't like Republicans very much but, David Duke does not

represent the views of true Republicans. As a matter of fact Bush, the Christian Right nor the neo-conservatives represent the views of the republican party. Rush, Anna and the other red faced screaming talking heads that have taken over the voice for the Republican don't represent them either. All these people and groups have high jacked the Republican party.

[salin]

20. Agreed

but for whatever reason, republicans elect some of these clowns - including giving David Duke the GOP nomination for Governor in Louisiana. Of course in that election the democrats nominated former Gov. Edwin Edwards - who had been indicted (and at that time.. on those charges.. I believe acquited) for ? bribes? In the end with the choice between crook or racist leadder, the voters selected the crook. Who later was indicted for corruption (bribe taking.) Nonetheless the Republican party selected Duke. Just as the republicans in Texas elected W twice just as the republicans have elected Jeb! twice. They have also elected Sen. Santorum (religious right), and Tom DeLay (rabid powerhungry neocon) and others. So while the radicals have taken over the GOP... the enough GOP voters have supported these radicals to allow the takeover.

[SharonAnn]

23. But now, they ARE today's Republican Party.

The old one is no more. It's gone. It's now found in the Democratic Party.

Sorry it's gone, but it is.

Things have changed, get used to it!

[thebigidea]

25. Bush doesn't represent the Republican party? If only I lived in your world

[Longhorn79]

28. Who does represent?

If Coulter, Limbaugh, Duke, don't represent them, who can we turn to as a pincushion?

[CalebHayes]

29. I saw we just make an organization called the GKN... GOP, KKK and NRA....

All combined! What an idea!

[8 ball]

40. 8 ball sez:

It is decidedly so!

Excellent idea!

[Skidmore]

48. These people are used by the

Rs to divert us. We are so busy reacting to the outrageous stuff they spew and our representatives in government are kept busy putting out the brush fires ignited by the grenades they lob, that we often get distracted from the really harmful policies machinations they cook up.

It's a tactic with the kiss-up media being the bookend for it. I often wondered what would happen if we just stop responding to the grenade lauchers and dealt directly with R powerbrokers.

[salin]

19. he won the republican nomination for Governor in Louisiana

a number of years ago, and has run as a republican for congress. No speculation about it.

[tritsofme]

9. Isn't he in jail?? nt

[yankeeinlouisiana]

10. I thought he was in jail

or is he out now?

[leesa]

11. I think he would fit right in. Good christian man.

[Toots]

13. Wouldn't "Congressman Duke" be an indictment on America?

I would truly weep for our country if such a thing came to be.

[Mrdirt73]

14. I don't understand!

How is this any worse than Robert Byrd. Is he not a former member of the KKK????

[salin]

21. right... you don't understand.

grand wizard or dragon of the KKK as an adult... leader of another white supremist group in recent times. Vs. an eighty year old who briefly was involved (not a leader) as a kid... more than sixty years ago. Funny but it seemss that Strom was actively involved in white supremist politics (while having a black child) more recently than Byrd, and various current republican senators and a governor have been associated with white supremist groups (CCofC) within the last five years... but you feel the need to make a comparison to Sen. Byrd? Very interesting...

[smiley_glad_hands]

24. Robert Byrd is not a Racist.

He may have been in the KKK in his younger days---but he has disavowed those views--and his voting record reflects that. You need to go back to freeperville. Trent Lott and Tom Delay and of course David Duke are white supremiscist to the hilt.

[Catherine Vincent]

30. Byrd is a former member of the KKK and has denounced

that group. David Duke is a flat out racist that want to keep the blacks, jews and other non-white peoples separate from whites. But I think you do understand, don't play dumb with us. I take it you've already signed up to work in Duke's campaign?

[auburnblu]

34. But Byrd keeps saying the N word

If Byrd could quit being taped saying the N-word, I might believe he's changed. If West Virginia elects him, that's their choice, being elected senate majority and minority leader over a period of 12 years is a shame on the party. And people wonder why no MLK holiday while Carter was in office, geez maybe Mr. Byrd had something to do with that.

[flaminbats]

36. Did Byrd use the n-word?I have listened to his speeches and never heard it

Robert Byrd was a member of the KKK when he was a kid. As he grew up, Byrd broke away from those terrorists. Later, he began to move away from his old segregationist views...unlike others like Harry Byrd or Dick Russell.

Now Byrd has one of the most liberal voting records on civil rights among his contemporaries in the Senate, which is more than I can say for Joe Lieberman! I would rather have a racist who has admitted his flaws as a human being, and has worked consistently to overcome them...than a fucking bigot who tries to hide those racist views under the cloak of patriotism.

[libview]

41. interview, fox news, about 2 years ago.

used the N-word several times

[lumpy]

44. Prove your Damn lies,

libview.

[fujiyama]

45. It's not a lie...

Mr. Byrd told Fox News that "There are white niggers. I've seen a lot of white niggers in my time, if you want to use that word. But we all -- we all -- we just need to work together to make our country a better country and I -- I'd just as soon quit talking about it so much."
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http://hnn.us/comments/6185.html

I myself don't think he meant anything racist, but it was a bizarre statement. He did apologize though.

[libview]

49. do you feel stupid now?

[snippy]

38. Byrd abandoned racism rather than join the republican party.

Most of the racist Dixiecrats became racist republicans rather than reject racism. Republicans now honor racism and are proud to be supported by racists. Haley Barbour's association with the CCC is a recent example of this, but the most telling example probably is Bush instructing his campaign to spread the rumor during the 2000 South Carolina republican primary that John McCain had what the Bush supporters called a "nigger daughter." This ideological appeal was targeted at only republican voters.

[arwalden]

16. Jesus Tap Dancing Christ On A Wooden Stick

I wonder if he'll propose a constitutional ammendment to prohibit interracial marriage... you know... to protect the sanctity of the marriage and the purity of the race.

-- Allen

[are_we_united_yet]

17. I can already predict we'll see

"We support David Duke" bumper stickers.

:eyes:

[Jack Rabbit]

18. This is one of those stories . . .

. . . that make me wonder if I should laugh or puke.

[0rganism]

26. Great, he'll split the GOP vote and lower their turnout if nominated

Duke is just too polarizing and blatantly racist to get elected these days, although I'd expect he'd get a nice chunk of the racist GOP vote -- say, 40-50%. Running Duke in a "republican guaranteed" district against, say, a conservative Democrat would be the surest way to turn that district around.

[adamrsilva]

27. I think I'll send his campaign money

Duke running would assure a Dem win in the district!

[scarface2004]

32. oh yeah...another one of karl rove's boyz!

what a joke, coocoocachoo adolf hitler..amerika turns its lonely eyes to you!!

[auburnblu]

33. Part Lyndon LaRouche Part Robert Byrd

So he's getting out of jail for swindling people and tax evasion like crazy LaRouche and like Senator Byrd is a KKK alum, though Duke is probably still involved.

Maybe he watched the Iowa caucus on C-Span and said hey that looks like a white power rally, no minority voters seem allowed, my dream has come true.

[salin]

37. except of course that he has run for multiple offices as a republican

he ran for congress as a republican in Lousiana.
he ran for governor - and won the republican nomination in Louisiana.

the democratic party slate is not clean on race by a long-shot.

However it is the GOP through which Duke has run for many offices, and it is the GOP today that still has candidates and elected officials using the CCofC as a means for fundraising (most recent case - H. Barbour in Mississippi - running for Governor in Nov 2003- previous position ... head of the Republican National Committee.

[flaminbats]

35. Why do some people think this is funny?

To me this prospect is terrifying, as I'm sure it is for every reasonable person in that district. David Duke led the KKK marches in Georgia back in the eighties, he encouraged his supporters to make death threats to anyone..including school children..involved in the Hosea Williams counter-marches, and he continues to push this agenda at a time when hatred and intolerance are burning out of control.

He came in third place in 1999, and this was when he ran against the incumbent! My fear is that he could make it into the runoff, and who knows where he might go from there? Although I would ultimately back the Democratic candidate in that district, that is one race in which I would vote in the Republican primary just to stop this cowardly bastard!!

[davidinalameda]

47. Duke is the true face of the national Repuke party

racist and corrupt

can you imagine how much money the Bushies and the RNC would spend to defeat him in any primary?