Ted Cruz: "We Need 100 More Like Jesse Helms"

[Bolo Boffin]

http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2013/09/ted-cruz-we-need-100-more-jesse-helms

That Cruz would praise Helms while delivering Heritage's annual Helms Lecture is hardly unusual. And the two do share an extreme skepticism of the international community—Helms as chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee; Cruz as Texas' first solicitor general. But Helms, who passed away in 2008, was an emblem for more than just conservatism. At a time when Republicans—including Cruz—are emphasizing the need to broaden the party's base, the first-term lawmaker and rumored presidential candidates is embracing one of the upper chamber's most notorious bigots.

Shades of Trent Lott wishing Strom Thurmond had won the presidency. However, Cruz won't suffer in the Republican Party for this.

We do need 100 more like Jesse Helms - in hell with the original one. I'd be happy to escort you to the front of the line, Dear Senator o' Mine.

[JeffHead]

1. Right now I'd settle for 1 less Ted Cruz R- (Canada) in the senate.

[Dawson Leery]

2. See my post regarding the modern slave patrols....."tea parties".

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023648584

Teddy is talking to the base.

[pscot]

3. If he means dead Republican racists

I couldn't agree more.

[JimboBillyBubbaBob]

4. 100, as in the Senate?

Why, is that fool leaving?

[Bolo Boffin]

6. Yes, that's what he means.

A Senate full of Jesse Helms, like some hellish Being John Malkovich sequel.

[DhhD]

11. Agreed. Cruz seems to be conjuring up familiar spirits.

[Koko Ware]

5. We need to see Ex-Senator Ted Cruz by 2016

after he resigns to run a failed Presidental primary.... and suddenly is replaced with a true-blue Texan Democrat, be damned.

Man on Dog needs to go too....

[TexasTowelie]

9. There is no requirement for him to resign from the Senate to run for president.

It looks like we are stuck with him through 2018.

[TheCowsCameHome]

7. Who needs 100 dead people?

A coroner training school?

[monmouth3]

8. I'd rather have 100 Levon Helms..n/t

[Javaman]

10. it appears as if cruz is trying to out stupid perry...

that's a tall order but I think cruz is up for it. LOL