Does the ghost of Joseph McCarthy and Richard Nixon appear in Ted Cruz?

Does the ghost of Joseph McCarthy and Richard Nixon appear in Ted Cruz? While Nixon and Cruz appear on underside of life grubby little men who come from nowhere,unlimited ambition there is a difference Nixon was smart,Cruz is a moron.Yes,both McCarthy and Cruz are stupid bullies,however, McCarthy was right and had goal,communism was threat to America,many Soviet spies in America government,Harry Dexter and Alger Hiss come to mind,but McCarty had right message but he was wrong messenger too much the bully bore maybe the same true of Cruz.