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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forumslook at the picture Wonkette chose to illustrate their Ted Cruz story
http://wonkette.com/528434/ted-cruzs-teabag-oprah-fantasy-you-get-a-jesse-helms-you-get-a-jesse-helms-everybody-gets-a-jesse-helms
If you are a major political party that needs to lash yourself to a lifeboat of minority voters before the demographic tides suck you down to the bottom of the ocean, maybe one easy step would be to stop celebrating the dead racists that led you for many decades. Or you could keep talking about the pile of awesomeness that was fetid swamp creature Jesse Helms, whatever.
Yesterday sardine-faced suck bag Ted Cruz traveled oer hill and dale to the Heritage Foundation to give a talk for the Jesse Helms Lecture Series, because what better name to attach to an event that calls to mind flights of rhetorical fancy and intellectualism than that of a shambling, bloated, flour-white sack of yard waste like the thankfully dead Senator from the insane state of North Carolina? Ostensibly the lecture series is on the subject of foreign policy, which was one of old Jesses lifelong interests, seeing as how he spent half his life as one of the Confederacys ambassadors to the United States.
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tridim
(45,358 posts)Enrique
(27,461 posts)Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,501 posts)amb123
(1,581 posts)Scuba
(53,475 posts)Cali_Democrat
(30,439 posts)spanone
(135,838 posts)G_j
(40,367 posts)that this is an unfair insult to the fish.
yodermon
(6,143 posts)VA_Jill
(9,971 posts)I've also used Cruz and Joe McCarthy to pretty good effect.
1-Old-Man
(2,667 posts)The thought that there are people in this country who are so out of touch with reality that he makes sense to them scares me even more.
rug
(82,333 posts)Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)Blue Owl
(50,383 posts)hopemountain
(3,919 posts)a blobfish poop orifice
shireen
(8,333 posts)DallasNE
(7,403 posts)And come from neighboring States so why wouldn't DeMint's Heritage Foundation name a lecture series after Jesse Helms. That Ted Cruz would lend a helping hand to his good friend Jim DeMint should not come as shock to anybody. Current Republicans can't help themselves when it comes to honoring openly racists amongst their ranks because they harbor that same hate. More proof can be seen in their response to the George Zimmerman killing of Trayvon Martin after Zimmerman profiled Martin as being up to no good when all he was doing was trying to return home from a convenience store with a can of iced tea and a bag of candy. Racists seem to be embolden by the not guilty verdict in the Zimmerman case and Ted Cruz is just reflecting that new found boldness. Expect more of this to follow.