He's going all Zell Miller on us!
- Mr. Byrd embraced the same judicial philosophy as the president in his memoir, "Child of the Appalachian Coalfields," released earlier this summer. In the book, he repeatedly blamed "liberal judges" and "activist judges" for many of the nation's problems.
"One's life is probably in no greater danger in the jungles of deepest Africa than in the jungles of America's large cities," he writes. "In my judgment, much of the problem has been brought about by the mollycoddling of criminals by some of the liberal judges who have been placed on the nation's courts in recent years."
Ummm...Bobby....I know you're facing a tough reelection battle, but most of those "liberal" "activist" judges placed on the courts in recent years were put there by Republican presidents, and likely vote Republican.
