Ted Cruz Channeled His Inner Jesse Helms!

Ted Cruz wants to be the new "Jesse Helms".

And soon I'll see the crumbling hands in a political ad by the likes of this asshole Republican senator from Texas.

If you're a smart person, you already know that Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) has no legislative accomplishments nor successes as a leader. All he done in the months as a being freshman lawmaker is be a pain in the ass of the Republican Party. He just says stuff that make him and the Republican Party look even more stupider.

Now for him to channel that dead right wing bigot, former North Carolina senator Jesse Helms is the latest stupidity from the junk food media's "darling of the right".

Say if he wants tor run for president, will he regret saying stuff like this?

Do we actually need "100 more Jesse Helms"?

A man who would actually use "dog whistle politics" to beat an opponent. A man who would be considered a proud "hater".

Jesse Alexander Helms, Jr. was a five-term Republican United States Senator from North Carolina who served as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee from 1995 to 2001. A leading conservative, he helped organize and fund the conservative resurgence in the 1970s, aiding Ronald Reagan's quest for the White House and helping many local and regional candidates. He died in 2008.

A journalist by training, Helms was the longest-serving popularly elected Senator in North Carolina's history, and was widely credited with shifting the one-party state dominated by the Democrats into a competitive two-party state. The Helms-controlled National Congressional Club's state-of-the-art direct mail operation raised millions for Helms and other conservative candidates allowing Helms to outspend his opponents in most of his campaigns.

An unreconstructed Southern conservative, he began his political career in the Democratic Party in the days when many white Southern politicians championed racial segregation. He moved to the Republican party in the 1970s. Helms was the most stridently conservative politician of the post-1960s era, especially in opposition to federal intervention into what he considered state affairs (integration, the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act). Helms tried, with a 16-day filibuster, to stop the Senate from approving a federal holiday to honor Martin Luther King, Jr.

Helms was credited even by his most vociferous opponents with providing excellent constituent services through his Senate office.

As long-time chairman of the powerful Senate Foreign Relations Committee, he demanded a staunchly anti-communist foreign policy that would reward America's friends abroad, and punish its enemies. His relations with the State Department were often acrimonious, and he blocked numerous presidential appointees. However, he worked smoothly with Secretary of State Madeleine Albright.

In domestic affairs, Helms promoted industrial development in the South, seeking low taxes and few labor unions so as to attract northern and international corporations to relocate to North Carolina.

On social issues, Helms was a traditionalist. He was a "master obstructionist" who relished his nickname, "Senator No".

He opposed, at various times, civil rights, disability rights, feminism, gay rights, affirmative action, abortion, and government support for contemporary art with graphic sexuality.

Helms brought an "aggressiveness" to his conservatism, as in his rhetoric against homosexuality, and employed racially charged language in his campaigns and editorials. He combined cultural, social and economic conservatism which often helped his legislation win overwhelming support. The Almanac of American Politics once wrote that "no American politician is more controversial, beloved in some quarters and hated in others, than Jesse Helms"

Say what you want about this guy, I am assuming Blacks voted this right wing bigot.

Senator Ted Cruz is working on being a obstructionist. He and Senator Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) are competing with Senator John McCain (R-Arizona) and Senator Lindsay Graham (R-South Carolina) for airtime. There's a civil war between the party and the Republicans are feuding with each other.

Besides the feud with President Barack Obama, the Republicans can't stop themselves from being obstructionists with each other.

Cruz is the first Texas Hispanic Republican senator elected to office. Cruz is closely associated with the Tea Party movement. He's often criticized by the likes of McCain and Graham as being a "wacko bird". 

For Ted Cruz to channel Helms, it's prime reason for the Democrats to activate their base and help defeat him and those who follow him.