Very well said, and your succinctness says volumes.

I’m with you - what he represented was not a good thing, at all. CNN, and others, may call him a ‘conservative icon’, but I think they’re being overly generous. I’m a ‘C’onservative, and white, and have always cringed when any mention of the guy hit the airwaves.

I’m sure he was a generally kind man, and I hope that he rests in peace, too, but I’m glad that the old-guard is disappearing.