As much as I despised the old dingbat’s politics, I’m attempting to be respectful. However, I hope everyone will be tolerant if I fail and occasionally yell things like “Good riddance, you crusty old bigot.”
You know, reminds me of a Simpsons line - Homer is missing and thought dead, and Patty and Selma buy a tombstone that says “We are richer for having lost him.” That comes inexplicably to mind…
Oh, right. Being respectful.
I can see the scene now:
STROM: What’s in the newspaper today?
FRIEND: The Supreme Court’s ruled that sodomy isn’t a crime.
STROM: Aacckk! (Clutches heart, falls insensible.)
Damn you both, SnugTheJoiner and jackelope!!! That was totally my idea!!! 
And don’t worry Marley hon, I’m sure you’ll be forgiven.
I’m sure that in time the world will forget that he died the same day as the striking down of sodomy laws…
I won’t.
Good. Couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy. Too bad it wasn’t 50 years ago.
Lion of the South. Goddamn racist homophobic pig, makes me wish I believed there was a hell, so he’d burn in it forever.
He did major damage to the South’s image in the 20th Century. As a lifelong Southerner who is educated and (much as I hate the term) progressive, I really would have liked a George Wallace-esque about face before he died, but apparently that’s too much to ask.
Good bye. You ass. There is no room in my thoughts for people that violate all that is and could be decent in humanity. And to happen during pride week. Loving the irony. Although I could make some thoughts for him in the hell that he will burn in for his racist attitudes…
Well since no one else is saying it…
Ding dong the witch is dead
which old witch?
the wicked witch!
Ding dong the wicked witch is dead
My next robot’s battery should last a minimum of 150 years!
Gordon Heap, that was damn funny.
sounds of Knckers not giving a tinker’s cuss about the crazy old dead bastard and making no effort to have respect for dead people if she didn’t respect them when they were alive*
You people. I suppose it’s not possible to change your ways.
From cnn.com
I wonder if the hatred will be as ripe when Robert “Sheets” Byrd kicks the can.
I often think people scream “Racist!” because it makes them feel better about themselves as in “Whew, I’m much better than that guy!”
Strom was a faithful servant of the state of South Carolina. Just this morning on a local talk show stories were told about Strom’s life and career. There were countless anecdotes about Thurmond’s resolve to handle problems that everyday people had, be it weighty or insignificant. (He once had a neighborhood sprayed because the mosquitos were so bad, according to one caller.)
My condolences to the Thurmond family. Strom was a great man. I will forever be grateful for the letter he sent the Naval Academy on my behalf and I am proud to have shook his hand.
Meh. Based on your quote, I see he was a politician, through and through. He knew on which side his bread was buttered.
It sounds like you have a reason to be supportive of the man because he did something for you personally. For others, he’ll remain a steadfast symbol of what’s wrong with this country.
Obligatory Onion Link.
http://www.theonion.com/onion3112/stromchange.html
Current events makes the last sentence a bit morbid, eh?
The gods have given us all an extra special Sodomy Day present. I am not one to relish in other people’s misery but this is like a wicked Methuselah dying. Now for Phelps and company!
And Gay!
Darn everybody in this thread! I wanted to post the Only the Good Die Young line.
You know, glad as I am that hopefully he’s one of the last dinosaurs of his age to finally depart and leave us in peace, you nevertheless have to grant the fact that whether you liked or hated his positions, the man DID have influence and power. Clearly, he represented his state well. And in later years, I know he had a truly spectacular staff that saw that whatever else happened, the people he represented were taken proper care of when they ran into problems dealing with the government.
But I still think the timing of his death is just perfect.
Although I have no love for Robert Byrd, he at least renounced his past.
Thurmon never recanted his segregatist past and in fact said he had “no regrets” and still thought the Dixiecrats were right as late as 1998. His record on gay rights since the 1990s is even more fuel to the fire.
Oh boy, this is a pickle. I’m not gonna say that I’m real sad to see him go, but it’s also not cool to wish death/hell on folks. I mean sure, he was a crusader for the right to lynch people, and actually impose death on folks, but I’m satisfied with him having disappeared from the political scene.
His retirement was a cause for celebration in this country. That a modern politician speaking in support of Thurmond’s old politics was a massive scandal is a credit to this country. His death is more or less irrelevant, in my opinion. For all I care, he could have lived to 300, so long as I didn’t have to put up with his crap.
LC
No, people scream “Racist!” because racism is wrong. Granted public condemnation isn’t as effective a form of changing public opinion as lynching, but we’ll that tactic to the other side.
Bullshit. Thurmond betrayed South Carolina by pandering to the worst instincts of the worst elements of the state. If Thurmond had really cared about his native state, he’d have tried to make it a better and more enlightened place.
What did Thurmond ever do for the millions of “everyday people” in South Carolina who were black? Apparently they didn’t count to Thurmond or any of the people who admired him.