Well, he did live to see what even he must have understood is the beginning of the end of the conservative ascendancy in America.
Cite? 
You do realize that says a helluva lot more about you as a person, and nothing about the subject of your ire, right?
Well, yes. I decline to offer sympathy towards people who regard sympathy towards others as evil. It’s the same principle as sneering at right wing moralist sex scandals, but not caring about left wing ones.
For myself, I try not to take joy in anyone’s death. It’s my personal belief that there are no circumstances in which the death of a human being isn’t a loss to us all and a cause for regret. The late Senator Helms is a particularly trying test case, however; the man was certainly repugnant, and it’s not as if I’m going to actually miss him.
I suppose however, that there is cause for regret even here. Namely, I regret that Senator Helms didn’t live to see an African-American elected to the position of President of the United States. I can’t help but feel that that would have been an opportunity for personal growth on the Senator’s part, although I have no way of knowing if he would have taken advantage of it.
I wonder what would happen if we did a search of the various “scum sucking criminal who should be tortured in graphic ways prior to death” threads and compared posters in it to the list of posters who populate these “this famous person whom I despied has died, let me dance on his grave”.
Certainly (as has been suggested already), there are those who most would rejoice at news of their death (the aforementioned Hitler, Osama Bin Laden, to name just two). So, it seems that in many cases, it’s more of a case of “we know what you are, we’re just haggling on the price”.
I remain convinced that expressing joy in someone’s demise is a bit uncultured. This should be a thread exploring the good things he did in life.
Sadly, I can’t think of many. Fairly hard to do for a man who spent so long in the public view.
Which brought about this thread, which you, in fact, posted in!
This…really makes no sense.
Are you actually saying you think less of samclem for hating a bigoted racist? 
Yes, I am saying that. Mama taught me not to HATE anyone.
The thing about the Jessie bashing is I end up getting all defensive over him… And I hated him. It’s like, “They can’t talk about our senator like that! Only we can talk about our senator like that.”
He was an asshole, but he was an honest asshole. You always knew where you stood with him. Not like with some of those assholes out there now.
Except liberals, right?
Like I said, I don’t hate anyone. Besides, what would be the point?
If this is such a joyous occasion, why is this in the pit ?
Remember, while Helms may be dead, his views still live on in a majority of North Carolina adults despite the large black population there.
Never mind.
Uh oh. I am having bozo vu.
To paraphrase the obituary of Generalissimo Francisco Franco:
“They say only the good die young. Jesse Helms was 86.”
It’s a shame that this song is no longer quite as relevant.
It is indeed tacky to so vehemently attack the dead, but I cannot fault the posters for it.
Frostillicus, however, has class. 
I suppose he means Larry Harmon, Bozo the Clown. Jesse was never in Bozo’s league, though.
I can’t say enough good things about Jesse Helms.