Hero worship of Jesse Helms by the man who may well be the candidate in 2016 probably won’t help. For all his good points, Helms’ support of segregation, his opposition to any and all Civil Rights legislation, his filibuster of the King holiday, and his support for apartheid South Africa isn’t going to play well with black people, conservative or otherwise.
Filibuster of the King holiday? Good for him. That Viet Cong-loving race baiter should never have had a national holiday to begin with.
Ted Cruz is right to speak highly of this this champion of real American principles.
"Doctor" "Reverend" Marxist Luther King was a commie who hated Ronald Reagan.
Helms didn’t enter the Senate until 1973. He had no vote on the 1960s CRA agenda. What he did was oppose was initiatives such as Affirmative Action, since in practice, it is racist and unfair. Justice and redress of hundreds of years of oppression of Blacks is not accomplished by turning around and penalizing Whites (or Asians, for whom most weren’t even here during the aforementioned period or ever benefitted from “White privilege”).
Also, why should MLK alone be worthy of a holiday given his personal track record ? Why aren’t there holidays for more worthy Black Americans who were accomplished and possessed a higher moral caliber ? (Booker T. Washington, George Washington Carver, Medgar Evers, et al).
When Cruz praises Helms, he praises a man whose guide was the Constitution and not the leftist media and political correctness, the latter two of which keep the current GOP paralyzed by statism and fear.