Would You Consider Byrd for Prez in 2008?

[Dinger]

Poll question: Would You Consider Byrd for Prez in 2008?

[LiberalVoice]

1. Absofuckinglutly! n/t

[mopinko]

2. oh, come one

i love the guy, but he is ancient!

[sepia_steel]

3. agreed. eom

[DemocratSinceBirth]

4. He Will Only Be 87 In 2006...

eom

[Dinger]

9. So What

[Pastiche423]

20. The Senator is 87 now.

He was born in November 1917.

[CrownPrinceBandar]

5. I agree. Too old.

[Ian David]

6. He'd make a good president, but he's way too old

He'd be a good cabinet member, though.

Barbara Boxer for President in 2008!

[Warpy]

8. Right, his age and his health are both issues.

If he survives to 2008, he wouldn't last a 4 year term.

That's too bad.

[Arkana]

7. No

As much as I respect and admire Byrd, the media would beat him over the head with the KKK thing the way they did to Kerry with the Swift Boat Liars. He'd sink like a stone.

[One Taste]

10. Sorry, but

as eloquent as he may be today, a known former klansmen will never be elected president.

[theboss]

11. What he need in '08 is 90-year-old ex-Klansman!!!!

I love Byrd and probably one of the few people here to have both met him and cast a vote for him....but are you being serious?

I mean, the odds are against Byrd even being alive in 2008.

[tk2kewl]

12. I would consider a BIRD at this point

[buzzard]

21. Yes my parrot can speak nearly as well as the current Pres. n/t

[KalicoKitty]

25. My African Grey parrot has a larger vocabulary than *!!!

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[stevedeshazer]

13. You're dreaming

Or you're bogarting the fountain of youth.

Pass some of that stuff over here....

[quinnox]

14. LOL

[Poppyseedman]

15. No, we need someone who can win

and someone who actually might live though his full term.

He would be 94 ? in 2012.

[WI_DEM]

16. He'll be pushing 90

so I don't think so. I'd love for him to stay in the Senate past '06 though. If that old fool Strom could do it up to age 100--then I'm all for someone like Robert Byrd staying in the senate since he is still an effective member.

[AntiCoup2K4]

17. A qualified "no"

Only because he's too old for the job.

[SharonRB]

18. He's too old. Otherwise, I might consider him. n/t

[Vinca]

19. No, but I was incredibly impressed with him today.

He was intelligent, eloquent and made serious points the entire Senate should consider.

[Hippo_Tron]

22. Umm how about... no, no, no, and no

Byrd's great as a senator, on most issues (foreign policy in particular) he's really good. That being said he's a former klansman and the GOP keeps using him to make democrats look like racists. I think that we'd inflame that idea by putting him on a national ticket, not to mention the fact that African Americans (who are responsible for the election of almost every single democrat) would not vote for him with good reason.

[Connie_Corleone]

23. I knew someone would put a thread up like this.

Regardless of what he's doing now, the man is an EX-KLANSMAN. It doesn't matter how he got into the Klan and that he says he regrets joining, how many black people are going to vote for an ex-klansman? He wouldn't make it through the first primary.

And how old is he? 80 something?

Please!

[Justpat]

24. No. He seems so shaky now.

By 2008, who knows?

And the ex klansman thing will do him in from the word go.

But I love him and appreciate his willingness to speak the truth
as he sees it no matter what.

[ISUGRADIA]

26. NO He's ancient and he has the worst voting record on

LGBT issues of all Democrats in the Senate. He's exchanged one kind of bigotry for another.

[DaveinMD]

27. Hell No

[lazarus]

28. No for a different reason

I refuse to vote for someone who's a bigot.

No, not the old Klan stuff, but very recently, he's made bigoted statements about atheists.

[ISUGRADIA]

29. Good point, for a "civil liberties" champion he sure

doesn't care for the idea of separation of church and state. Check out a bit from a floor statement of his from 2004:

"But today the Senate has been called into session despite the words of the Fourth Commandment. Moreover, the matter being debated today is no question of life or death. There is no dire emergency that brings us here on this Sabbath Day. There is no emergency that demands the elected representatives of the American people place the pursuit of their work over the importance of their faith. No, the Senate has been called in on a Sunday for a mere procedural vote. What would be the consequences if the Senate were not called into session today for a single vote on cloture? It would only mean that the matter before the Senate might take 1 day longer to complete. What a tragedy that would be."

http://www.vote-smart.org/speech_detail.php?speech_id=69889&keyword=&phrase=&contain=

[ThorsHammer]

30. Consider him, yes, but his age is a massive issue

[Tacos al Carbon]

31. Maybe if he was running against David Duke

Otherwise, no way. I have this thing about bigots and hatemongers like Byrd.

[LittleClarkie]

32. Bless him, older than dirt and would never get past the KKK thing

Um, no.