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Originally posted by Gattigap
For these purposes, I don't give a shit about Helms or Byrd individually. Your statement was that "They [Southern Republicans] weren't doing the lynching, that the Byrds of the world were."
You think so, huh?
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Honestly, backtracking on the rhetoric, I think racists come in all political stripes. Neither party has the market cornered on ignorance, but if you going to argue that Helms is indicative that the Republican Party is the party of racists I counter with Kleagle Byrd every time (and remember, the Republicans have better funny phottoshoppers than the Dems.)
eta: and Byrd's "apology" is for shit and I can't figure out why anyone would try to defend it. If you are identifying him as the Conscience of your party, you may want to examine its soul.
