Sen. Byrd ‘inclined to run’ for re-election

WASHINGTON -- Sen. Robert Byrd said Wednesday he’s "inclined to run" next year for the Senate seat he’s held since 1959.

"I’m inclined to run, but I’m not making any announcement today," said Byrd, who has spent 52 years in Congress, longer than anyone currently serving. "I’m studying about it, thinking about it, talking about it with my friends and people in West Virginia."

Byrd, 87, long has been considered virtually unbeatable in West Virginia, a state to which he has directed billions of dollars in federal money.

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Republicans are beginning to say Byrd might be vulnerable.

"I’ve heard that they’re going ‘Byrd-hunting,’ but they may end up shooting themselves in the foot," Byrd said.

more at:
http://hdonline.com/2005/March/17/LNtop1.htm

He made the wrong choice on that Bankruptcy bill, but he's made the right choice on just about everything else, recently.

Time for ALL of them to quit....one term and you're out. There are MILLIONS of good people in the US qualified to run in both parties why do we have to keep putting the same people back in good or bad?

Multiple terms just gives the corporations more and more shots at turning them to the dark side and they ALL eventually go at least partly in the corporate directon. They can't help it. We have to help them all.....vote against all incumbents in the primaries, if no one is runing against them find someone to run or run yourself.

$$$$$$$$$$

If he's staying in the Senate, he's not leaving for a golden parachute given to him by some big corporation. If he's staying in the Senate he's not retiring to enjoy any of the funds he's accumulated over his many decades in power.

I think you should take another look at this guy.

...in return for that? Isn't that the way it usually works?

Until Byrd voted in favor of that abomination, I was one of his strongest supporters on this board or anywhere else. But no more...he needs to be retired.

anyone but the big corps who own big media and have the funds to run these 24/7 campaigns (in addition to their own media outlets, basically shilling for their candidates)?

Be realistic, instead of lashing out at *everything*, including the good guys.

I would drink the kool-aid and move to the other side. I could actually profit very well in both business and personal life, I just wouldn't be able to sleep at night.

he needs to run again as the big lender corporations
will be glad to rund his re-election drive now.

This is another vote that does not go the right way.

But my main problem is that he is getting too old. He should find somebody he wants to support.

He would still be better than 3/4th of them...

For instance, they ran this letter today. Normally it takes two weeks to get published, but anti-byrd stuff gets moved to the front of the line.


from today's paper9referring to gop spin started yesterday)
Isn't it time for Sen. Robert Byrd to move on?
Of all the groups campaigning in the last election, no group was more strident, vitriolic or just plain mean and wrong than MoveOn.org.

Now we find out that West Virginia's senator, Robert Byrd, is affiliating himself with them.

What next?

Sen. Byrd's appearance as the keynote speaker at MoveOn.org.'s rally against President Bush's judicial nominees is another level in the downward spiral of his career.

He and Sen. Jay Rockefeller fought for their candidate, Sen. John Kerry, as those of us supporting the president fought for him.

The president won with a significant margin of victory in West Virginia.

I say to Sen. Byrd: "Get over it and get on with the business of America." No more guerilla warfare from disgruntled senators.
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we need all the help in fighting their p.r. blitz we can get

please send a response here:

http://dailymail.com/static/letters/

Byrd's more popular than Bushie anyways.

morning . . .

If he runs, I hope he wins. Overall, I think he's been a great senator in his career, not withstanding his cultural conservatism.

I understand that he was once the boss of the Klukkers. I'd be embarassed if my state kept on electing somebody like that. He's 87 years old, if reelected, he probably wouldn't live through the term. Time for new blood.

about his very short time w/the KKK over sixty years ago? A
time he has publically repented and apologized for?

It would embarrass me to show my ignorance on a progressive board.

and gave him a "clean bill of health" in the early 90s, because of his work on progressive issues since the time

Byrd has not only apologized for his KKK membership, but for his votes on civil rights. The NAACP accepted them and I think that's good enough for me.

Now ol' strom, on the other hand, never once, contrary to what Joe Biden would have you believe, apologized for his segregationist past. But we never heard Hannity refer to him as Strom "keep the negroes out of our pools" Thurmond. His selctive faux-outrage is unbeliveable.

south prior to 1964 were DEMOCRATS. It should also be noted that those who saw how very wrong they were and repented stayed democrats. Those that remained bigoted pigs moved to the repug party where division of the American people along racial lines is still one of their major hidden goals. How do I know? By their ACTIONS not their lies.

...your post. If you had done even a very small amount of homework on Byrd's affiliation with the KKK, you would have known that Byrd quit the Klan in 1946...almost 60 years ago.

Additionally, the voters supporting Byrd in West Virginia represent a real cross-section of the residents of that state to include all races, creeds, and cultures. They know that he has done very well supporting their state over the years.

If I were you, I'd be more worried about Byrd's support of the new Bankruptcy Bill than I would be about his support of something he renounced almost sixty years ago.

you need to admonish us for who we elect. Come to our state one day and see what it is all about instead of spewing this tired old line.

I use a Prijon Rock-it on the New River. I've been looking for some land out that way, too...for a vacation home.

Dems retire and are replaced by an (R). Stay in office, Senator Byrd -- your country needs you!

http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2004/02/280183.shtml

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Confessions of a WHITE HOUSE SEX SLAVE, '81-'88
author: Cathy O'Brien
The World's only escaped MK-ULTRA Project Monarch mind control slave, Cathy O'Brien, who lived to tell about it. You will find below an eyewitness to high crimes including the following: federal governmental drug trade organization, ethnic biowarfare, and global government networks in Canada, Mexico, Haiti, Saudi Arabia, the United States, the UN, the Dominicans, the CIA, the United States legislature, judicial, and executive branches, and the Vatican --- particularly active in select US states like Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Arkansas, Alabama, Vermont, and Tennessee. Ethnic bioweapons testing in Haiti for racial war and Catholic holy war purposes, US plague delivered in communion wafers, see Iran-Contra and NAFTA from the inside; see Reagan, Bush Senior, George W. Bush, Cheney, Habib, de la Madrid, Salinas, Trudeau, Mulroney, King Fahd of Saudi Arabia, Baby Doc Duvalier of Haiti, Senator Byrd (D-West Virginia), Arlen Spector, Gerald Ford, Senator Leahy (D-Vermont), Bill and Hillary Clinton, Alan Cranston, Governor Lamar Alexander of Tennessee, Governor Blanchard of Michigan--all using these MK ULTRA sex slaves regularly; see Bohemian Grove details; many more users: Guy VanderJagt, former Governor of Pennsylvania Dick Thornburgh, Congressman Jim Trafficant, Congressman Gary Ackerman, and much more.

or did art bell pass this info on to you.

i'm sorry, but this is just stupid.

Byrd will be facing an unprecedented 527 negative ad blitz, according to my sources. He'll need every penny fr commercials he can get. When the time comes, please donate and encourage everyone you know to do so.

There simply won't be enough money in the state for WV Dems to counter the out-of-state rightwing garbage that folks like Dr. Dobson plan to run here.

His likely opponent, Shelley Moore Capito, the daughter of a convicted felonon ex-governor here, is already racing money for what will be a phony "above the fray" facade while the 527s do her dirty work.

If you don't believe me how these people work, look up info on the McGraw-Benjamin state supreme court race from 2004.

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and please get those letters to WV papers - especially the rightwing Daiy Mail-but don't forget the Charleston Gazette, the state's largest paper; and the Huntington Herald-Dispatch while you're at it

...new Bankruptcy Bill. Once passed and signed into law by Herr Busch, that bill will do more to destroy the middle and working class West Virginians than any previous disaster to include the Great Depression.

What the heck was he thinking???

C'mon. He's 87 years old. Do you think he's doing this for gain? The man loves his job and he loves his country. I don't know why he voted for the bankruptcy bill but he's a great statesman and defender of the Constitution. Do you really want to leave his seat vulnerable to the vultures?

a repub to his seat if repub gov is in office then?

excellent. this is one man i would love to meet in person.

an open seat race there will be a tough one for Dems to win. The state has been trending to the right in recent years. Kerry got blown out in that state by a whopping 13 points.

I'm as pissed and disappointed as anyone that he voted for the bankr. bill and he's certainly far from perfect (his support for the gay marriage amendment was unfortunate as well), but I wish him the best anyways, regardless of whether he runs again or not.