Senator Robert "Sheets" Byrd

[hi_im_god]

danny: unless it occurred in the last year, david duke has never publicly changed his views. he changed party affiliation and that's it.

coach: well done. you again deflected the argument. it's now about defending byrd and not responding to the ridiculous assertion that byrd got away with his pre-1967 views only because he's a democrat.

last word

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by hi_im_god

danny: unless it occurred in the last year, david duke has never publicly changed his views. he changed party affiliation and that's it.

coach: well done. you again deflected the argument. it's now about defending byrd and not responding to the ridiculous assertion that byrd got away with his pre-1967 views only because he's a democrat.

no, duke was back about 18 years ago...lol last i heard, he got busted for illegal use of campaign funds and spent time in jail.
point is, no one believed he changed-and i don't believe byrd changed either-except publically. it's kind of like when mel gibson got pulled over that night when he was drunk, and started on his anti-semitic rant. he's always felt that way, but alcohol loosened his tongue. it's not as tho he changed his feelings just cause he had a few.
it was politically expedient for byrd to 'change'...now, i didn't know the man personally, but i know how resistant humans are to change. i also know that the private persona can be far different from the public one. he's a politician, and was a good one, which is why he stayed so long. but his actions, and his words, showed that maybe he wasn't as changed as he portrayed himself.