look at the picture Wonkette chose to illustrate their Ted Cruz story

[Enrique]

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 o’er 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 Jesse’s lifelong interests, seeing as how he spent half his life as one of the Confederacy’s ambassadors to the United States.

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[tridim]

1. "Sardine-faced suck bag Ted Cruz"

[Enrique]

13. they have a way with words, don't they

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

2. I don't get it. What do you mean when you refer to Cruz's glamour shot? nt

[amb123]

3. So that's what Jesse Helms got reincarnated into.

[Scuba]

4. Wonkette will be hearing from the Blobfish Anti-Defamation League.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/122822637

[Cali_Democrat]

5. It totally looks like him

[spanone]

6. he's not THAT handsome

[G_j]

7. someone has to point out

that this is an unfair insult to the fish.

[yodermon]

8. Compare and Contrast, boys and girls!

[VA_Jill]

9. Well, there IS a resemblance!

I've also used Cruz and Joe McCarthy to pretty good effect.

[1-Old-Man]

10. The man really is a pandering pig, and to tell the truth he scares the hell out of me

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]

11. That's no way to treat a blobfish.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

12. Posted with love....

http://docart.com/catalog/jesse2.html

[Blue Owl]

14. What the fucksack...

[hopemountain]

15. a more accurate pic would have been

a blobfish poop orifice

[shireen]

16. why insult the poor fish by using it to depict Ted Cruz? nt

[DallasNE]

17. Jesse Helms And Jim DeMint Are Two Peas In A Pod

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.