Comments on: Helms Kicks The Bucket

By: Crooner

Crooner — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 18:56:57 +0000

I used to wonder how the good people of North Carolina could possibly keep sending a backward redneck racist to the US Senate. Then I moved to the Charleston area and learned about John Graham Altman.

By: CL

CL — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 13:29:55 +0000

#7,

You treat any fault of a conservative leader as an indictment of the entire movement. Of course, you would never extend that same logic to liberals (since we all know liberals walk with the angels). This shows only your intellectual ignorance and lack of class (taking delight in the death of Sen. Helms). I think Ted Kennedy has done enormous damage to this country and our Senate, yet I would never take delight in his disease. I pray that he recovers and leads a long life (hopefully in retirement). I also pray that you overcome your hatred and bigotry.

I also cannot let stand the idea that liberals would win a “sin contest”:

Whore hopping – JFK(heck, pretty much all the Kennedys), WJC, Gary Hart, Barney Frank (a male prostitution ring was being run out of his apartment for goodness sakes)

Racism – Robert Byrd (I forget, was he grand dragon or grand kleagle), Woodrow Wilson, FDR, Margaret Sanger (who not only hated minorities, but wanted them sterilized)

As for white supremacy, I seem to recall from history class that it was the Democrats who were fighting to keep slavery and implemented Jim Crow.

By: From the land where winners get trophies

From the land where winners get trophies — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 03:26:13 +0000

PS: The Jesse pic looks like he would share an office with Senator Craig.

By: From the land where winners get trophies

From the land where winners get trophies — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 03:23:05 +0000

Guero,
I am with you. But, the old school prefers Jeff, or just plain Gringo.

8.10%,
Bahhahahahaha. Not one piece of significant legislation was passed by any of them but Nixon. And Nixon, by illegally spying on Watergate was the biggest threat to democracry in the 20th century. I guess your next reflection will be the prose in Mein Kamph as a child needing to heal.

By: 10%

10% — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 15:35:31 +0000

#1 & #7—Quero…Thanks for acknowledging many of the fine Americans who helped shape this great country. Sadly its idiots like you and the people you vote for that are destroying their great work.

By: Guero

Guero — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 11:35:43 +0000

Sorry, Danny Boy, Jesse’s own words betray your feeble attempt at revisionism. You do speak the truth that Jesse was a conservative pillar. Without his overt appeals to racism, the Repugnant Party would still be a minority. Your party of anti-Semitism (Bill Buckley, Pat Buchanan, Richard Nixon, and Billy Graham), white supremacy (too many to list but Strom needs to be included ), whore hopping (again, too many to list, but David Vitter is a good start along with Strom), gambling-addicted scolds like Bill Bennett, and let’s not forget draft dodging chicken hawks like Dick Cheney, is slowly shrinking into the regional party it always should have been. Wow, and I didn’t even get to Larry Craig…

By: Likeabadpenny

Likeabadpenny — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 03:12:08 +0000

An ever better bumper sticker said

Helms-Thurmond for President! 200 years of experience CANT be wrong!

Sen. Helms was a HERO!

By: Mike Licht

Mike Licht — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 01:36:29 +0000

The late senator deserves a fitting memorial. See http://notionscapital.wordpress.com/2008/07/05/jesse-helms/

By: 867-5309

867-5309 — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 00:59:20 +0000

One of my favorite political bumper stickers from my youth:

“Vote Against Hate. Vote Against Helms.”

Irony anyone?

By: Daniel Gleason

Daniel Gleason — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 22:11:41 +0000

What the heck is going on with this blog? You claim to be a conservative? You are literally repeating liberal talking points. They had to brand Jesse Helms a “racist” in order to shut down his conservatism. There was no greater champion in the Senate of the constitution, smaller government, less spending, the rights of the unborn, etc. Things that Will Folks claims to stand for. I just don’t understand why you make it a habit to attack the conservative giants who’s pillars you stand on. They are the reason you have any success today; without them there would be no conservative movement, and certain no alternative media for you to thrive in. What the heck is going on with you. Jesse Helms was not a racist, and you are a fool (at best) for repeating this charge. What a shame.