ac360blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
... should not need to learn now -. they should have learned them twenty years ago. The late Senator Jesse Helms’ 1990 senatorial ad about “ quotas ” showed that racial sensitivities were enough to turn a close election. Fast forward to 2008 and the rhetoric discussing “palling around with terrorists” to paint a particular image of Senator Obama. It’s a fair question to ask: how much...
T&A: Tunesmith & Anthony (Free subscription) | yesterday
... of the Senate , respectively. Let me put that in a different perspective. That would be like a Jesse Helms/Rick Santorum ticket. I’m a Republican and even I wouldn’t want that. V ote early and if you’re a member of ACORN, vote often!
enrevanche (Free subscription) | 10/12/2008
To see how fast the tide is moving, just look at North Carolina. On July 4 this year — the day that the godfather of modern G.O.P. racial politics, Jesse Helms, died — The Charlotte Observer reported that strategists of both parties agreed Obama’s chances to win the state fell “between slim and none.” Today, as Charlotte reels from the implosion of Wachovia, the McCain-Obama race is a...
WhirledView (Free subscription) | 10/12/2008
... isolationism. Isolationism failed miserably in the 1920s. The 1990s neo-isolationism of the late Jesse Helms only helped to weaken this country’s position and destroy its foreign affairs capabilities in both the short and long run. This is indeed a globalized world: isolationism – like Communism – belongs in history’s dust bin. But before a new administration can emphasize diplomatic...
International Herald Tribune (Free subscription) | 10/12/2008
LETTER FROM WASHINGTONNew South looks away Bloomberg NewsHarvey Gantt is exuberant over Barack Obama's prospects of carrying Gantt's home state of North Carolina: "This state has changed." Then he has a flashback. Eighteen years ago, the African-American Gantt, the popular former mayor of Charlotte, was leading Senator Jesse Helms in the polls. The Republican incumbent then began running...
NewsObserver.com - Politics (Free subscription) | 10/12/2008
... they could to tie the local Democratic candidates to the national ticket. In 1972, Republican Jesse Helms criticized his Senate opponent, Democratic Congressman Nick Galifianakis, by tying him to Democratic presidential candidate George McGovern. Helms talked about "McGovernGalifianakis welfare giveaways" and "McGovernGalifianakis cut-and-run" policies in Vietnam.Helms...
Time (Free subscription) | 10/12/2008
... a Chicago "welfare queen." Third, bash affirmative action, as the late North Carolina Senator Jesse Helms did in 1990 when he ran an ad showing white hands crumpling a job rejection notice.Historically, this stuff has often worked, even against white candidates considered too solicitous of African-American concerns. And yet this year, with a black man actually running for President,...
MSNBC.com (Free subscription) | 10/11/2008
... Jordan’s unwillingness to take a stand in the 1990 North Carolina Senate race between Republican Jesse Helms and Democrat Harvey Gantt, who was bidding to become the first black southern senator since Reconstruction.“Republicans buy sneakers, too,” Jordan famously said, though he later endorsed Bill Bradley’s presidential campaign in 2000.“We spend an hour a day talking about this...
Star Tribune (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
... Jordan's unwillingness to take a stand in the 1990 North Carolina Senate race between Republican Jesse Helms and Democrat Harvey Gantt, who was bidding to become the first black southern senator since Reconstruction."Republicans buy sneakers, too," Jordan famously said, though he later endorsed Bill Bradley's presidential campaign in 2000."We spend an hour a day talking about this...
National Review Online (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
... Carolina is seen as bedrock of southern conservatism, a state that gave rise to the career of Sen. Jesse Helms and gave Ronald Reagan a crucial 1976 primary victory. It is not a state, the conventional wisdom held, that could well cast its electoral votes for a Democrat and the first black nominee.The reality within the state, however, is different. For starters, the state has long...
sans everything (Free subscription) | 10/06/2008
... over arts funding that blighted American politics in the 1980s and 1990s when moral paragons like Jesse Helms and Rudy Giuliani made hay out of taxpayer money going to fund supposedly smutty photos and allegedly blasphemous paintings. Canadian conservatives, whatever their other failings, have never gone in for the sort of scolding philistinism that has often characterized the American...
