“I’m just amazed that none of you can provide me with even a single example of George W. Bush regretting something he did.”

Well, when you laze off and ask other people to do your homework for you, the results tend to be disappointing. I for one am disappointed that you couldn’t come up with a single example on your own; maybe there’s no there there, after all.

Libby again:

“I guess he must be pure as Jesus.”

I doubt it. But maybe (to bring this thread full circle) purer than Robert Byrd. Maybe.

I guess he must be pure as Jesus.

He wasn’t a member of the KKK during his 47 year political career?

I doubt that Byrd still retains his white hood views of the past. There isn’t any proof from his voting record from the last 30 years to show that he has any “keep them in their proper place views. My point is that the MSM and the left would never had let his unquestionable rank racist history be forgotten if he had an R in front of his name. And the fact that they go out of their way to manufacture signs of racism where there are none.That is why Miller, Arnold, and the current Pope are perfect examples of how they treat conservatives. They take the slightest hint or minor connection to anything that hints of racism and try to blow them up until they can ruin that persons life and drive them from the public square. And if they have cases like Sen. Byrd they ignore actual histories and give them a pass. There is no way I can look into Sen. Byrd’s soul but I doubt that his foul association of his 30′s has any influence on his political actions today. And if they still are there I don’t see any evidence of them. It is the enormous double standard that the Press and the left have regarding racial issues and how they use the ‘racist” tag to bludgeon political opponents. It is the exact method that Sen. McCarthy used against the ‘reds” and the left treats him as the anti-christ(McCarthy was a drunk and a demagogue, but the left rarely examines the embrace of Stalinism that many of the victims of McCarthy believed in), they don’t seem to know that they are borrowing from his playbook.

Demokkkrats!

Gergen brought it up 10 minutes after the speech and the LAT and the NYT brought the Maddux connection a day or two later. When Miller endorsed Clinton at his first Presidential Convention it was not brought up. I do think Matthews pointed out the double standard. I don’t think any of the people who went after Miller think he is a racist either. They wanted to discredit him and of course the racist charge is like a republican calling a Democrat a liberal. It’s automatic and the slander gets tossed out on the slimest hint of it. Miller is a conservative Democrat and he was a positive sign of the Big tent Democratic Party until he backed President Bush. Then he suddenly became a racist because, well everyone knows that white Republicans, or any Democrat that supports a Republican, are all racists.And of course black republicans are all Uncle Tom’s. When Stalin wanted to get rid of someone they were called supporters of Trotsky. The facts didn’t matter. He just needed to tag them with something before he got rid of them.

I liked him when he was Governor and I remember reading James Carville’s glowing endorsement of him for Gore’s veep in the spring of 2000. Then, at the age of 70 or so, he turned into a ideological Republican almost overnight in 2001. His new rhetoric and policy stands were appaling and perplexing for me as a Democrat. But it was no excuse for calling him racist.

Let me give you a couple of names of real people, Libby. Do a search and tell me if their assailants who hold, or held, public office have expressed their regrets:

Mary Joe Kopechne

Juanita Brodderick

I’ll give you a hint: one was killed, the other raped.

There are principled reasons for oposing the 64 civil rights act today, how much more so back in Barry Goldwater’s time?
Just like there are a hord of political whores who will scream “racist” if ever a polititian were to be principled enough to attempt to amend the civil rights act.
All of those whores being members of the exempt media or the Democratic party -