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Notice it doesn't say <i>whose </i>heart.

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Strom loved blacks almost as much as Jesse Helms loved the gays.

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I hate to say this, but we may need more beer.

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Or, possibly, Fielding Centre?

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<a href="https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch\?v=ntkC-o52weI" target="_blank">Blasphemy!</a>

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No hagiography of Robert Byrd or haven't we gotten to that yet?

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Interesting that he should mention swimming pools. It was well known at the time that blahs couldn't swim, but I suppose that wouldn't prevent them from looking at white women.

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Pre-Senator Al Franken imitating Strom Thurmond after the news broke about his mixed-race daughter:

"The pecker knows no bigotry."

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So the Dems favored an "anti-lynching" law? No wonder Thurmond was so fired up about states' rights!

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Yeah, that's great BJU that you are proud of your local political hero, but my local political hero beat up your local political hero in 1948 (with votes).

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Strom Thurmond: Once you go black, you <i>can</i> go back!

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The <strike>pecker</strike> heart wants what the <strike>pecker</strike> heart wants.

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Changing just enough to stay in office isn't heroism; in a conservative it's called Leadership.

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And deceiving those who want to be deceived.

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I thought that papal bull was explicitly overridden a couple of centuries after the Fourth Crusade went so hilariously wrong.

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<i>"Most politicians run for the presidency as the culmination of their careers..."</i>

Republicans are fond of politicians who start their political career with a presidential run. Herman Cain, Gary Bauer, Donald Trump, Alan Keyes, Dwight Eisenhower.

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