Posted on 10/01/2006 12:03:15 PM PDT by wagglebee
West Virginia GOP senatorial candidate John Raese slapped back at Senator Robert Byrd’s reference to Raese’s deceased father in a West Virginia public television profile which aired Thursday night.
In a transcript of the program obtained by the Raese campaign Thursday afternoon, Byrd says, “(Raese’s) father was my friend. I think his father would have been … somewhat ashamed. His father would be supporting me today I feel if he were alive.”
Raese fired back, saying, “It is Senator Byrd who should be ashamed for smearing my father – and my family by extension – when he knows my father is deceased and cannot speak for himself. I am astounded at the disgusting arrogance of Senator Byrd in suggesting that my father would support ever him over his own son. Senator Byrd has a nasty habit of saying outrageous things and this is just another example of that arrogance,” Raese said.
Raese said the contrast between his father and Senator Byrd’s father is a lesson to remember.
“When I was a boy, my father was taking me to basketball and baseball games, and to Dairy Queen after the game,” said Raese.
"By contrast, according to Senator Byrd’s autobiography, his father was taking him to Ku Klux Klan meetings. Years later, when I was 34, I was running for the United States Senate. Senator Byrd was, at that same age, by his own account, recruiting members to the KKK,” he said.
Added Raese, “I know who my father would be ashamed of, and it wouldn’t be me.”
Hopefully, this will knock Byrd down a few points, maybe even below 60%. Unfortunately, this race isn't in play.
The polls don't give him much of a chance. Rasmussen has it 63% to 30% in a poll on 11 September.
I think you mean Byrd SHOULD BE IN an institution in WVA?
Bitch slap.
Are they going to debate? If they do, who is going to prop old senator byrdshiite up? He can't stay awake longer than 10 minutes.
Weekend at Byrdies...
Well, good for him...can we send him some of our "Cali-Mexi" gangbanger spraypaint 'artists' to add their touch to all those "Robert Sheets Byrd Memorial - (fill in the blank)" plaques?
I live in WV, and that 63-30 figure soesn't make much sense, since 30% is the base Republican registration, and a GOP candidate always get lots of secretly-Republican Democrat votes. Four years ago, Jay Wolfe with absolutely no RNCC funding, and much more than $100,000 self-raised, got 37% against Rockefeller. Also, Raese has been prominently advertising his pro-gun, pro-life sympathies. (He showed up at yesterday's West Virginians for Life convention and is proud of their endorsement, whereas Byrd has voted pro-life about 10% of the time.)
I agree with the previous comment that all this money rolled into the state in a pork barrel doesn't have anything to do with reinforcing a sustainable economic base.
How much longer will we have the Rocky and Byrdwinkle show?
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