Jesse Helms Dead

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/07/04/obit.helms/index.html

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080704/ap_on_go_co/helms_remembered


Definitely a generational marker. Death of one of the main characters of the Southern Strategy.

This is one of the men who personified the mean-spiritedness that destroyed my party. For someone who postured as a Christian, he also personified a sanctimonious hypocrite.

Goodbye, and good riddance.