[Skooz]

By the way, I often said that if Duke had just come out of the blue, sans KKK and Naziism, I would have knocked on doors for him and campaigned on his behalf. The things he said in his campaign were absolutely right. I agreed with him on virtually every point.

But, when it came time for him to renounce his KKK and Nazi past, he refused to do so. That cost him my vote and the election, as well.

[bigunreal]

You prove my point perfectly. Here was a candidate you agreed with on virtually every issue, yet you not only didn't vote for him, you cast a vote for a slimy hack who was a criminal. I am not advocating for nazism, or anti- semitism; my observation was that most people now consider certain extreme beliefs (almost always either "racist" or "anti-semitic") to be more despicable than actual crimes, even violent ones. I know Edwards didn't rape or kill anyone (that we know of), but I still maintain that he would have been elected over Duke even if he had bragged about his violent crimes on the campaign trail. Would you have voted for him in that case?