Sen. Ted Cruz called out the Republican governor or Tennessee to change a law that honors a former Confederate general and the first grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan.
Is it me or is Ted Cruz coming out against Trump/GOP worms more often? Wonder what his endgame is?
Cruz added: “it needs to be more subtle. Just honor confederates, and continue to blame Democrats for racism. Our base is pretty gullible.”
I’m going to agree with what @demosthenes59 stated: that it’s not smart to turn dead Klansmen into state heroes.
Sadly, this is going to be one of the least embarrassing things Bill does as governor.
2024?
I wish him the best of luck with that.
Is the release of the kinder gentler Ted Cruz? It it correlated in any way with the beard?
Voters don’t even remember the name of Trump’s last sexual assault accuser (as reminded by Michele Goldberg in today’s NYT); but, maybe… . I’m daring to dream and thinking that he might see some writing on the wall, and he’s possibly considering a challenge.
No.
The Forrest love was just too loud for him and he decided to say so.
Ted had a near-death experience in his last election and perhaps figured out going hard-right in a state trending purple is not the brightest idea.
And railing against Nathan Bedford should be a pretty easy thing to do, even in this overtly racist Republican Party.
He’s sporting that Vincent Price look…or maybe a serial killer. Hard to tell.
Either way, that’s still the most punchable face in the Senate.
The question for me is: would he have tweeted that ‘no’, if the honoree was Polk or Hardiman?
Yes, I googled Tennessee Confederates.
I’m willing to bet a soda that Cruz would be radio silent, if had Lee decided to honor Leonidas Polk, a rebel general, who if he hadn’t faced off against Sherman’s army, would have prolly joined Longstreet and Mosby in the post war Republican Party.
Darkness Falls Across the Land
The Midnight Hour is Close at Hand
Creatures Crawl in Search of Blood
To Terrorize Yall’s Neighborhood…
(Better than most–if not all–of Ted’s speeches)
Avoid another Beto near miss. Cruz isn’t dumb, he knows his next election is going to be in a bluer and less Trumpy Texas. Might as well start pivoting now so it looks less craven.
Sorry Ted. Too too late for you.
All the catch-able Hungarian Jews have been sent to Auschwitz.
And honoring Confederate traitors this is JUST WHAT Confederate Nazi Americans like you and Billy Bob Lee do.
Just TOO LATE for you.
Sen. Cruz spends more time and focus on what happens in other states than in Texas. I love Texas and even some local Repubs are real good in their jobs but the Repubs elected on a statewide basis here are an absolute embarrassment.
If the law demands that Tennesseans recognize several days connected to the Confederacy, I humbly suggest a few connected to the Confederacy in Tennessee.
Feb. 6, 1862: Confederate-held Fort Henry fell to U.S. General U.S. Grant
Feb. 16, 1862: Confederate-held Fort Donalson fell to U.S. General U.S. Grant
Feb. 25, 1862: Confederate-held Nashville fell to U.S. forces
June 6, 1862: Confederate-held Memphis fell to U.S. forces
Nov. 25, 1863: The area around Chattanooga fell to U.S. forces
I would include Jan. 1, 1863, the date the Emancipation Proclamation went into effect, but by then almost all of Tennessee was controlled by the U.S. military, which meant the Emanc. Proc. did not apply.