dancing on Robert Byrd's grave

You know the drill. Lots of "Pray for his soul," lots of smug "no comment" or "self-censored" attempts at wit. But Byrd as a person quickly fades, and each Freeper uses his death to go off on their own pet obsessions:

Byrd's death reminds DoughtyOne of how Conservatives are such victims:

The guy was a KKK leader. None the less he served the longest term in the history of the United States Senate.

And he served as a Democrat.

No, I won’t be allowing this POS to drift off into some dream state as Democrats will be want to do.

This man could not have served as a Republican in the Senate of the United States. The Democrats would have torn him to shreds.

Everyone is a racist, but a Democrat. That’s what they have been pounding into our brains in the 59 years I have been alive.

So no, I won’t be letting this racist prick off the hook.

If you’ve served as a leader in the KKK, you’re done. That’s something I don’t give second chances to get right.

Read about his record. He can go straight to hell, and not pass Go or collect his $200 dollars.

rdb3 agrees, and has this topsy-turvy idea of history:

Now contrast that with the Late Sen. Strom Thurmond, at his funeral even some of his closest Senate Colleagues would not attend because of his so called past and he was treated disrespectfully. Yet from all accounts he gave a lot of Blacks starts on his staff and helped a lot them along in their political and/or government careers.

Thurmond did change, beginning in the '60s. We have no clue about Byrd.

You mean clues like how Byrd apologized again and again and actually voted for civil rights legislation, stuff which Thurmond didn't actually do?

Arthur McGowan just hates Byrd for being Democrats, Byrd included:

It is not healthy for the country as a whole to participate in the pretense that those who have murdered millions of babies, raided the Treasury of billions of dollars, and made life more miserable for tens of millions of Americans, while shredding the Constitution, are members of the body politic. They are alien combatants against the American people and the Constitution.

He was all of those evil things, and a gasbag extraordinaire.

RushLake is angry about the troops, and therefor Byrd, or something.

Too many American Warriors unnecessarily have fallen on Byrd's watch. Everyday lately we get the news of more of those warriors falling in Afghanistan in large part because of the ROEs that dictate that they can't bring full force against suspected terrorist filth. Those ROEs exist at the behest of the CIC Maobama who had the full support of Robert C. Byrd and the rest of the human refuse that is the democrat party. Maobamacare, tax increases, decreases in our Constitutional Rights and on and on are all in place or are strongly contemplated by the democrat party of Robert C. Byrd and Akbar Hussein Maobama.

I hope the evil old bastard rots in hell.

Byrd, of course, was against the war in Iraq. Not that the irony would matter to RushLake.

Speaking if irony (sort of), StopObama2012 would like to remind us Obama is a racist:

It’s ironic. Byrd hated blacks, Omoslem hates whites.

The more Democrats change, the more they stay the same.

Arthur Wildfire! March has an interesting idea of unrepentant

So, he kicked the old sheet-covered bucket. Now he’s in God’s hands. I frankly can’t feel much empathy for an unrepentant terrorist. So, what is the political consequence here?

Sigh. HE DID REPENT! Not that facts matter here.

WaterBoard offers some evidence of Byrd's racism:

Yes. Let the members of his old KKK group morn his loss in private. I am sure that Sen Byrd will be conforted in the fact that he was covered one last time in a white sheet at the hospital.

Sen. Robert Byrd was nothing more than a racist protected by the DNC.

1) Byrd is the only Senator to have voted against the nominations of both Thurgood Marshall and Clarence Thomas to the United States Supreme Court, the only two African-Americans to have been nominated to the court.

2) Mr. Byrd allied himself with Richard B. Russell, the powerful Democratic senator from Georgia and architect of the filibuster against the Civil Rights Act of 1964. He joined Southern Democrats in opposition to the landmark legislation, which outlawed racial segregation in schools, public places and employment. Relying on licorice pellets and sips of milk for energy, Mr. Byrd filibustered for more than 14 hours in an effort to bury the legislation.

“Men are not created equal today, and they were not created equal in 1776, when the Declaration of Independence was written,” Mr. Byrd proclaimed during the filibuster. “Men and races of men differ in appearance, ways, physical power, mental capacity, creativity and vision.”

Voting for the Civil Rights Act of 1968, and later President Obama are also evidence of his racism. no doubt.

Candor7 just wishes everyone he disagrees with would die:

Interesting how the big gun Dems like Kennedy and Byrd are falling in tandem. They have caused tremendous suffering in some individuals and areas of the nation.I would be disingenuous if I said I did not hope the trend continues.