Quick---Name the Major Political Party Which Embraces A Klansman As Its "Conscience"

If you answered the Democratic Party, you'd be right.

Senator and former Ku Klux Klan leader Robert Byrd has another book out whitewashing his Klan days. Here's something he doesn't seem to reference in it:

Byrd said in the Dec. 11, 1945, letter -- which would not become public for 42 more years with the publication of a book on blacks in the military during World War II by author Graham Smith -- that he would never fight in the armed forces "with a Negro by my side." Byrd added that, "Rather I should die a thousand times, and see old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels."

Funny how Trent Lott was driven from the top position in the GOP for merely saying nice things about Strom Thurmond on his birthday, yet Byrd is beloved enough by Democrats to warrant major face-time on any issue confronting the party.

Tells you a lot about the Democratic Party leadership's sensitivity on the subject of civil rights, I would say.