Pro-Life Former Senator Helms Slams Pro-Abort Former Governor Weld In Memoirs

(Hat tip: FreeRepublic)

From the Boston Herald:

Conservative former U.S. Sen. Jesse Helms in his newly published memoir boasts of slapping down former Bay State Gov. William F. Weld's Mexico ambassadorship and accuses him of abandoning his Massachusetts duties.

Weld "resigned the position to which the people of Massachusetts elected him and took up a public-relations war centered on attacking me – as if no one had done that before,'' the North Carolina Republican writes in "Here's Where I Stand.''

Helms, whose memoir hits bookstores today, delights in his single-handed denial of the Weld ambassadorship in 1997 – and in outwitting Weld, now running for New York governor.

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My Comments:
Okay, so the article has absolutely nothing to do with abortion. But the fact remains that Jesse Helms of North Carolina was one of the most solidly Pro-Life Senators in the history of the United States Senate.

And I remember clearly the media showboating and political grandstanding of then-Massachusetts Governor William Weld at the 1996 Republican National Convention, as he and other Northeastern RINOs like Christie Todd Whitman et al tried to remove the Pro-Life planks from the Republican Platform.

So, I'm glad to see that ol' Jesse gave RINO Weld his political come-uppance by denying him his coveted ambassadorship to Mexico. To paraphrase what one poster on FreeRepublic said: William Weld ain't nuthin' but a Northeastern pro-abortion blue-blood RINO who got a good-old-fashioned backcountry @$$-whippin' from country boy Jesse Helms.