Jesse Helms Dies

He was a stalwart patriot to the end. Yes, he WAS a racist when it was "the thing" to be racist in the South. But he is not a racist now. Hell; I used to be a LIBERAL. The same kind of liberal I now fight bitterly. But I learned better, and so did Jesse. Someone once advised him to compromise, to which he replied, "Compromise, hell! ... If freedom is right and tyranny is wrong, why should those who believe in freedom treat it as if it were a roll of bologna to be bartered a slice at a time?" He's right. One should NEVER compromise his PRINCIPLES, and to compromise with liberals on the human condition would make a hypocrite out of him. No matter what you called him if you didn't agree with him, he could never (truthfully) be called a hypocrite. (Yahoo News)