Sen. Ted Kennedy: Stand with Me, Stand with Sen. Byrd

[paineinthearse]

Senator Byrd is the most knowledgable authority on the Constitution serving in the US Senate. The freepers and neocons would love to unseat him. Please give as you can.



Received by email from my senior Senator:

Senator Robert C. Byrd has spent 47 years serving the people of West Virginia and the nation with great skill and dedication, and he has often been a profile in courage. In recent years, for example, he has stood eloquently by his values and opposed the Iraq War, at a time when many others were silent.

Even now, as Republican smear groups circle his re-election campaign and attack his principled position, he refuses to be silent. He has encouraged us all to live up to our responsibilities as Americans, and he has helped us immensely.

Now, he needs our help, and I hope you will join me in supporting his campaign for re-election in 2006.

The National Republican Senatorial Committee is spending a significant part of its multi-million dollar war chest to blanket West Virginia in a TV assault that distorts and attacks Senator Byrd's dedication to our country.

We can't let that happen. Please make a contribution to his campaign, and help him obtain the funds he needs to fight back effectively.

http://www.byrd2006.com/donate/kennedy.cfm

The Republican Party has chosen the wrong target. Senator Byrd is a unique public servant whose proven dedication, leadership ability, hard work, and outstanding record for the people of West Virginia are legendary.

He'll stand up to the attacks against him with the same vigor and passion he has shown in the Senate for nearly five decades. But we cannot let him walk alone into this battle.

Let's all join together and help Senator Byrd respond to the smear tactics of the Republican Party:

http://www.byrd2006.com/donate/kennedy.cfm

As Americans and as Democrats, it is our duty to protect honorable politicians like Senator Byrd from baseless attacks designed to confuse the voters of West Virginia and distract them from what is needed to make their lives better.

The Republican leadership is abusing their power to use the Senate as a weapon to enforce their ideology. And, they are trying to do the same in West Virginia by smearing Senator Byrd. We cannot let them dismantle the Senate to serve their goals - and we cannot let them attack public servants like Senator Byrd.

We have to stop the Republican defamers from silencing his powerful voice in 2006 to advance their own agenda. You can help him win a well-deserved victory in the coming campaign. Please make your contribution now:

http://www.byrd2006.com/donate/kennedy.cfm

Make sure Senator Byrd continues to serve our Party--and our country. Join me in support for this truly great American.

Thank you for doing as much as you can in this all-important effort. You'll be glad you did, and so will the country.

Sincerely,



Edward M. Kennedy

[PatrioticLeftie]

1. Already about $40,000 there, keep donating! n/t

[wicket]

2. done

If I weren't currently jobless I'd give a lot more.

[flpoljunkie]

3. Byrd great on Iraq, but why in hell did he vote for the bankruptcy bill?

With all the poor folks that live in West Virginia? If Byrd cannot get re-elected in West Virginia after all the major bacon he has brought home, then perhaps it is time for him to retire.

[Yupster]

4. What is he? About 87 years old?

I'd say it's past time for him to retire.

Are there no other good Democratic office-holders in the state that can do his job?

An 87 year old with Parkinson's Disease has no reason to be running for a six year term of anything in my opinion.

[Pepperbelly]

6. If he wins, I guess it's HIS opinion that matters in this.

If he doesn't ...

He favored 3 to 2 btw.

[Yupster]

8. He pobably will win, and

he's probably a better choice than whoever his opponent will be, but

he still shouldn't run.

Strom Thurmond won when he was 97, but it doesn't change the fact that he should not have run.

Ninety year olds should not be making major decisions for us in my opinion.

Ninety is really, really, really old.

[JohnnyBoots]

5. It's times like this I wish I had money.

[spuddonna]

7. I gave some $$$ today, few weeks ago...

I love Byrd. I live in WA state.

As I was donating I wondered, "Gee, will they even notice that this is from WA, not WV?" Then I thought, probably not, because I'm sure this wonderful man has donations from every state in the US.

Mr. Byrd carries the constituion in his pocket over his heart. And you know when he talks, that the constitution is in his heart, too...