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Ted Cruz: "We Need 100 More Like Jesse Helms"
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onehandle
(51,122 posts)Chris Hayes cheered me up with this segment:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023661162
abelenkpe
(9,933 posts)AllyCat
(16,189 posts)He can leave at any time!
Initech
(100,079 posts)And if anything we need less crusty old racists in the senate.
RoccoR5955
(12,471 posts)vduhr
(603 posts)Borchkins
(724 posts)Rebellious Republican
(5,029 posts)Essie Mae Washington-Williams dies at 87; black daughter of segregationist Strom Thurmond
In 2003 the retired L.A. schoolteacher unburdened herself of a secret: Her father was Sen. Strom Thurmond, the legendary South Carolina politician who had built a career as a champion of segregation.
February 04, 2013|By Elaine Woo, Los Angeles Times
http://articles.latimes.com/2013/feb/04/local/la-me-essie-mae-washington-williams-20130205
Fucking hypocrits every single last one of them!
DissidentVoice
(813 posts)...bullshit is still bullshit.
The Republicans have been very, very good at taking bullshit and selling it to the voters by wrapping it in God, Guns, Guts, the Flag and the Constitution.
sulphurdunn
(6,891 posts)of conviction, descended from a long and infamous lineage of such serpents, coiling adders like himself who kept him in office for decades. Cruz is a nothing like Helms. He is a shameless, pandering opportunist. In many ways, he's much worse and a far greater threat to civil society. Helms was the real, hissing, rattling deal. Cruz is just the slick product placement of political marketers who've decided to enlist Teddy in the Confederacy.
AverageJoe90
(10,745 posts)believe half the bullshit that was coming out of his mouth. Hell, so were the vast majority of the other reactionary Dixiecrats as well.
Cruz, for all his own crookery, maybe dangerous(that I would, but wouldn't be nearly as much as someone who marketed himself as the new Jesse Helms.....now THAT guy would be the IDOL of Teabaggers, Southern ones in particular.
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)alfredo
(60,074 posts)heaven05
(18,124 posts)same as the old racist.
SaveAmerica
(5,342 posts)Cruz should check a little closer into his hero's racist hateful past.
craigmatic
(4,510 posts)niyad
(113,323 posts)lastlib
(23,239 posts)His election campaigns were pure evil, to a degree that only perhaps Saxby Chambliss ever approached.
DissidentVoice
(813 posts)One of his supporters was holding a sign that said "STRAIGHTS for HELMS!"
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DissidentVoice
(813 posts)Rush, Triumph, Anvil, Cobie Smulders, John Candy, Michael J. Fox...
muntrv
(14,505 posts)gopiscrap
(23,761 posts)dgibby
(9,474 posts)Ted Cruz has the potential to be one of the most dangerous men in the US. He is Joe McCarthy reincarnated, cold, caculating, and ruthless. Every time I see him, I get chills, like someone walking on my grave. The republicans need to rein him in, but they're too afraid to do anything. He's evil personified in my book.
DhhD
(4,695 posts)The Wizard
(12,545 posts)Cruz is a landscaper.
alfredo
(60,074 posts)Cha
(297,275 posts)Snake Plissken
(4,103 posts)I'll have to agree with the man,
but I do not agree with what he proposes as a replacement.
lobodons
(1,290 posts)RW'ers say you're damn right we need more Jesse Helms in the Senate!!
olegramps
(8,200 posts)Theoted
(6 posts)Night of the Creeps Part 2!
JimboBillyBubbaBob
(1,389 posts)Helms would be there shoveling coal for eternity!
nikto
(3,284 posts)He said he hated it.
But the hypocritical scumbag really liked it.
A lot.
Katashi_itto
(10,175 posts)Be you straight, gay, ethnic, whatever makes you different in their eyes.
Unless you belong to their select "tribe" you aren't fit to breathe. Never forget what they really are.
Todays_Illusion
(1,209 posts)Spiritual Godson of Jesse Helms, spiritual son of Joe McCarthy and Phyllis Schlafly,
Canada born,
And from Cuba his father, torn.
dballance
(5,756 posts)Statements like that are one of the reasons Cruz will never occupy the Oval Office as President. He's far too extreme for most of the voting population. While he may be a darling of the Tea Bagger right he's not going to make it considering most of the US is not so stupid when they vote. The clear evidence of that is two-term President Obama.
WestSeattle2
(1,730 posts)irrelevancy; limited to a regional party.
ErikJ
(6,335 posts)Where they line us up and shoot the intellectuals, minorities and gays into the river. They hate Obama and the liberals 10 times more than Assad and Putin and the Muslim brotherhood combined.