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You canāt be or have been a neo-Nazi and expect to get elected to any office in this country. WTF are you thinking?
Dude = Toast
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Who does he think he is, Pat Buchanan?
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Iāll save the Teatrolls the trouble: Byrd. Buh buh buh Byrd Byrd BYRD. Byrd is the word.
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There are a number of people who have backgrounds which were not very nice. One of the most liberal and anti-racist Supreme Court Justices we ever had was a member of the KKK. But that was back during a time when the only way to get into elected office in the South was to be a member of the KKK. Some like Byrd reformed and changed.
Often times, itās better to look at the present than it is to look at the distant past.
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Seems remarkably similar to the stuff Caribou Barbie said when her AIP involvement came to light. āI disassociated myself from extremists I agreed with because I thought it would hurt my political career.ā
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Did you notice the part where he said he left because he disagreed with their rhetoric and actions, but somehow didnāt say anything about disagreeing with the ideas? Or the part where he didnāt denounce Nazi ideology? Or the part where he was an active participant in the actions he later claimed he disagreed with?
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Or the fact that he joined the neo-Nazis in the 1970s, long after what the Nazis had done became public knowledge. Not as if he joind the American Bund in the 1930s and then left when the Nazis went on their rampage.
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Iāve never heard a racist admit they were a racist.
Exactly. āHey, thereās a club of neo-Nazis in town ā I wonder what thatās all about? Maybe Iāll go just to seeā¦ā
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My mind immediately gravitated to āI am not a witch.ā
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You are far more optimistic than I. Shame on me.
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David Duke was elected to the Louisiana Legislature and nearly made it into the Governorās office. Loved the bumper stickers Edwin Edwards put out that race: āVote for the crook. Itās that important.ā
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The āHeil!ā you say?
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Being outed as a neo-Nazi is a lot like being caught in bed naked with somebody by your significant other. People immediately leap to all kinds of conclusions and never wait to hear your side of the story. Canāt something ever just once not be what it looks like? I mean, gee whiz.
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So, besides attending white supremacist rallies and wearing the uniform, Nazis paint themselves, too?
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Iām not entirely certain how your comment fits with mine. Of course, it might be a case of me either not comprehending what youāre saying or me not saying something that you thought should be there.
What he considers himself to be really doesnāt much matter. He joined a group that openly espouses bigotry and racial hatred. Did he just join up for the Bar-B-Ques?
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āIām not the hater and in fact YOU are the REAL hater for not being tolerant of Nazis!ā
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Iām suggesting that this is one of the times when past is present, that thereās every indication that this guy gave up the associations, but not the beliefs.
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Reporters at the time uncovered a 1971 arrest for disturbing the peace as part of a neo-Nazi rally, and a 1972 police booking photo of him dressed in a Nazi uniform and standing beneath a swastika, according to the Los Angeles Times.
Ah, havenāt all of us done this sort of thing at least once in our misspent youth? /snark
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