Longest serving senators of all time: Your favorite?

[Vosem]

All HPs, Hayden least bad. Inouye lived long enough to see himself become an HP.

Curious as to what you mean by this -- I don't really understand how Inouye changed ideologically much at all during his time in Congress, especially if you compare him to some of the people on this very list (Byrd or Thurmond) who changed almost beyond recognition.

[World politics is up Schmitt creek]

All HPs, Hayden least bad. Inouye lived long enough to see himself become an HP.

Curious as to what you mean by this -- I don't really understand how Inouye changed ideologically much at all during his time in Congress, especially if you compare him to some of the people on this very list (Byrd or Thurmond) who changed almost beyond recognition.

He very probably raped someone in the seventies.

[Vosem]

All HPs, Hayden least bad. Inouye lived long enough to see himself become an HP.

Curious as to what you mean by this -- I don't really understand how Inouye changed ideologically much at all during his time in Congress, especially if you compare him to some of the people on this very list (Byrd or Thurmond) who changed almost beyond recognition.

He very probably raped someone in the seventies.

Shame. He was a guy I had a lot of respect for.

[Sir Mohamed]

Ted Kennedy, easily.

[RINO Tom]

We got some from back when the Democratic Party was the racist party.

LOL, are you like 12 years old?

Anyway, probably Hayden.

[Mr. Smith]

What's wrong with Hayden?

He did what everyone credits Byrd for in WV in Arizona, and he did it without much drama.

[Zioneer]

one of whom fought bravely notwithstanding overt government discrimination against his ethnicity

you can't possibly be serious

I think he's talking about Inouye on that one.

God I hope so.

I would say the same about both...

White Southerners were not discriminated against during Civil Rights, if that's what you're getting at.

[Chunk Yogurt for President!]

All are HPs.

[Ban my account ffs!]

Man... I forgot about CARLHAYDEN.

[Kingpoleon]

We got some from back when the Democratic Party was the racist party.

LOL, are you like 12 years old?

Anyway, probably Hayden.

[Oswald Acted Alone, You Kook]

We got some from back when the Democratic Party was the racist party.

LOL, are you like 12 years old?

Anyway, probably Hayden.

No, I know my history. The Democrats were the racist party until around the 1960's or so.

[White Trash]

We got some from back when the Democratic Party was the racist party.

LOL, are you like 12 years old?

Anyway, probably Hayden.

No, I know my history. The Democrats were the racist party until around the 1960's or so.

That's powerfully simplistic. Rule of thumb in political history, the more simple an answer seems, the less likely it is that it's actually an answer.

[Maxwell]

Kennedy > Hayden > Byrd >>>>>>>>>>>>>> Inouye > Thurmond

Kennedy is a sinner but he was one of the best Senators this country ever had. Hayden was a good man who did a lot for Arizona. Byrd had a bad past but he worked hard to overcome it and he gets that credit from me. So those are the good ones.

Inouye is a useless, corrupt rapist, and Thurmond was even worse because along with being useless, corrupt, and a rapist, Thurmond's politics were also historically and unbelievably awful.

[White Trash]

What is everyone's issue with Inouye? Not a loaded question, just genuinely curious.

[Maxwell]

What is everyone's issue with Inouye? Not a loaded question, just genuinely curious.

There are very few FF hawaii politicians as a lot of them tend to be pretty corrupt, and Inouye was the rule, not any sort of exception to it. He also has a history of harassing women and even raped a hairdresser.

[White Trash]

What is everyone's issue with Inouye? Not a loaded question, just genuinely curious.

There are very few FF hawaii politicians as a lot of them tend to be pretty corrupt, and Inouye was the rule, not any sort of exception to it. He also has a history of harassing women and even raped a hairdresser.

Well shucks. Just knew him mainly from his wartime exploits. That's awful.

[Since I'm the mad scientist proclaimed by myself]

Why do people hate Hayden so much? From what I could gather on Wikipedia he didn't do anything particularly offensive, and he did a lot for the infrastructure of Arizona, which probably would be much smaller and less developed then it is. Is there something I'm missing?

[Kingpoleon]

Why do people hate Hayden so much? From what I could gather on Wikipedia he didn't do anything particularly offensive, and he did a lot for the infrastructure of Arizona, which probably would be much smaller and less developed then it is. Is there something I'm missing?

Maybe the Hayden Rider?

[World politics is up Schmitt creek]

Not to be too EDGY, but Inouye would have been an American hero had he not lived past the age of twenty.

[Since I'm the mad scientist proclaimed by myself]

Not to be too EDGY, but Inouye would have been an American hero had he not lived past the age of twenty.

How do you actually define "edginess"?

[Antonio the Sixth]

Why do people hate Hayden so much? From what I could gather on Wikipedia he didn't do anything particularly offensive, and he did a lot for the infrastructure of Arizona, which probably would be much smaller and less developed then it is. Is there something I'm missing?

Considering what an abomination Arizona has grown to become, that might not be a point in his favor.

[Mr. Smith]

Why do people hate Hayden so much? From what I could gather on Wikipedia he didn't do anything particularly offensive, and he did a lot for the infrastructure of Arizona, which probably would be much smaller and less developed then it is. Is there something I'm missing?

Considering what an abomination Arizona has grown to become, that might not be a point in his favor.

Well one does have to take into account McCain, Fannin, and Goldwater too ya' know.

[World politics is up Schmitt creek]

Not to be too EDGY, but Inouye would have been an American hero had he not lived past the age of twenty.

How do you actually define "edginess"?

Saying cynical, incendiary, and/or misanthropic things mostly or solely to provoke a reaction or seem cool and disaffected, or in a way that has that effect unintentionally but in a way that a reasonably self-aware person should have been able to foresee.