[Constitution Day]

WRAL is on the excerpt-only list.

I had the honor of meeting Senator Helms while at a campaign event in September of 2004. Unfortunately, at that time, he was already in severly declining health. It was clear, however, that his passion for the conservative cause had not dimmed one iota.

I think he was an honorable, Christian man with the soul of a warrior. I wish we had many more like him today!

[Constitution Day]

Ping of interest to North Carolinians!

[a fool in paradise]

The documents show the former five-term U.S. senator had plenty of enemies and that he thought his own government was one of them...

Red Ted Kennedy conspired with the Soviets to thwart Ronald Reagan's policies.

[Deb]

Helms was a bright light in the Senate and I wish we could clone him. Maybe its not too late!

[ETL]

I wonder if the FBI has a file on the Marxist Obama and his many radical associations?

[freekitty]

Why is the FBI releasing files on Jesse Helms?

[izzatzo]

I’ll happily double-down on your comments-Jesse Helms was a great American and had the country’s best interest in mind and heart.

[MBB1984]

Jesse was a true Conservative and there is none like him in the Senate today. He was unabashedly a social Conservative who told it like it was without fear of the pc demagogues.

It is very interesting how the Marxists threatened to kill him.

[pissant]

The documents show the former five-term U.S. senator had plenty of enemies and that he thought his own government was one of them...

He was right.

[UCFRoadWarrior]

The one thing I always remember about Senator Helms was that he got passed legislation to defund part of the US contribution to the United Nations....for the UN funding of the North American Man-Boy Love Association (NAMBLA)

You know the Liberal Globalists hated Helms after that....but he was the only one to step up and do something about the UN funding a Pedophile group.

As chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee....he did a lot to keep the Liberal Globalists and Communists in both parties from surrendering US soverignty to the UN and other anti-American Globalist groups

[Ammo Republic 15]

One of the few Republican Senators to also vote against the communist MLK holiday.

[TBP]

The documents show the former five-term U.S. senator had plenty of enemies and that he thought his own government was one of them

And he was absolutely right.

[GodGunsGuts]

Hmmm...and Kennedy’s FBI file is still sealed? And Obama’s grandfather’s FBI file destroyed? Very interesting.

[MuttTheHoople]

Jesse Helms earned my respect when he singlehandedly stopped the nomination of Hormel to be Ambassador of Switzerland. That whole week, the Clinton spin machine was in high gear, trying to intimidate him into caving. Instead, he stood firm.

He never went on the Sunday shows because he was teaching Sunday School. My theory is that the reason he never caved like Newtie, Trentie, and the rest of the squishy pansies is that because he had sterling character and had no skeletons in his closet, as well as no dead girls or live boys in his bed.

[Combat_Liberalism]

I wish he were still there to stand up to Senator Turban, Comrade Sanders, Chuck U. Schumer, Senator Leakey, and the rest of the America hating subversives.

[nesnah]

I loved Jesse.

http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/2009/12/18/deck-the-halls-with-health-care-taxes/

Nice little anecdote.

[ncpatriot]

I remember when he had a commentary on WRAL, before he ran for Senate