Elizabeth Edwards told a group in Georgia today that her hubby John is a lot like Jesse Helms:
Elizabeth Edwards, speaking to reporters before a giving speech in Savannah, Ga., invoked the name of Republican Helms when asked if her husband could appeal to conservative Southern voters.
“I remember one-time somebody saying, ‘That John Edwards reminds me of Jesse Helms,'” she said. “They didn’t agree on a single policy, I don’t think. But here’s what they agreed on—that people should know where they stood.”
But it didn’t take much Googling to find another view of Jesse Helms expressed by John Edwards:
I actually defeated an incumbent Republican senator who was part of the Jesse Helm’s political machine in North Carolina, the result of which is I’m now the senior senator from North Carolina instead of Jesse Helms, which is a very good thing for this country.
