AHEM:

Rather I should die a thousand times, and see old Glory in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours be degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds.

Sheesh. What was this guy smoking?

UPDATE: Roger Simon is pretty hard on Robert Byrd: “This man shouldn’t be in the US Senate. He should be in a soup kitchen for the homeless doing penance.”

True enough. But I was really twitting TAPPED (that’s the “smoking” link) for holding him up as a role model for Democrats. It’s like holding Strom Thurmond up as a role model for Republicans. And that would be wrong.