Former Senator Jesse Helms, the great anti-Communist, has died. This will prompt Democrats and liberals to decry the famous ad Helms ran during a Senate race in 1990 in which Helms' opponent was an African-American. The ad showed a white male receiving a rejection letter. The narrator said: "You needed that job. And you were the best qualified. But they had to give it to a minority because of a racial quota. Is that really fair? Harvey Gantt says it is. Gantt supports Ted Kennedy's racial quota law that makes the color of your skin more important than your qualifications. You'll vote on this issue next Tuesday. For racial quotas: Harvey Gantt. Against racial quotas: Jesse Helms." Gantt would later say of the ad: "It dealt with people's worst fears. In one sense, we thought the ad was political genius. In the other sense, we...
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