Posted on 05/19/2017 11:45:20 AM PDT by NCjim
But Flake is up in 2018. It would feel so good to slap Flake down.
Gee, maybe rinos have been reading the comments after articles also the last few days and gotten a small clue of the danger.
Not my favorite Republican but the ONLY one speaking out. Thanks, Senator Graham.
Are these people that stupid or do they think we are stupid?
His boyfriend McCain thought the terrorists he posed with were friendly so I am leaning towards they are that dumb.
Sounds like Linda is pretty worried about what might be revealed about him if the Special Counsel looks too close. $10 says Juan McLame is right behind him on this and will make a similar announcement.
THEY ARE SCARED!!!
I am leaning towards they are that dumb.
That would be a big mistake, don’t ever think for a second that these people are dumb, stupid, ignorant, blind, clueless,.... Everything is theater, well planned and choreographed and thought out and practiced in focus groups before anyone ever says a single word in public. They are just Plain EVIL.
You must have the courage to believe the Truth.
Yes, getting rid of McQueeg’s meatpuppet is paramount.
As long as South Carolina gets to vote yea or nay on whether he stays or goes, it will never happen. They will always vote yea, even if they have to exhume from the cemetary.
geeze louise...he turned about so fast he needs to wear Teddy’s neck brace.
He’s very much at risk in the primary. He has lucked out twice, first in 2008 when the Bush White House interfered to knock out his first tier challenger (Thomas Ravenel) with conveniently made federal drug charges, and in 2014 when 6 second-tier challengers stepped up and divided the field so badly that no one was able to gain traction.
If Graham were to face any of the sitting House members or any of the statewide elected officials one-on-one, he would lose outright. At least 10% of the voting electorate simply won’t vote for him in the general election, why he underperforms. He should be, as a Republican, getting well over 60% of the vote, as high as 65%, but he registered his lowest % in 2014, barely over 54%, a fraction below his first race in 2002 when he was more highly regarded by the Conservative base as a House Impeachment Manager against Clinton.
Look at his Senate seatmate, Tim Scott, who has scored 61% in both the 2014 special and 2016 general elections, outstripping Graham by 7% in that 2014 election when they were both on the ballot. He scored 90% in the 2014 GOP Senate primary and went unopposed in 2016. If Graham wasn’t such a creepy weasel and left-wing ass kisser, this is how he’d be performing.
Ravenel was
A)A Paulbot
B)Guilty of the charge
Thank God he didn’t win, would have sucked when Obama had a sitting GOP Senator arrested for coke in 2009. Coke heads aren’t first tier anything other than losers. Paulbots aren’t first tier anything either.
I would hardly say Graham under-performed in the 2014 general election, he had stronger third party opposition than Scott, Ravenel and a Libertarian Party candidate. Scott’s only third party foe was a centrist who probably took more from the rat.
Graham’s rat got 38.78% on the rat and working families party ballot lines
Scott’s got 37.09%
Anyway as I said at time, his 2014 opponents sucked. The top guy was a Neo-Confederate State Senator with personal financial problems. Even if he had forced a runoff or if he was the only candidate, Graham would have kicked his butt one on one. That dude was never gonna win, never.
Graham is many things, a weak candidate is not one of them. He is never gonna lose to a cokehead, a fringe candidate, a nobody, or a democrat.
I think one of the House delegation would probably beat him (other than Sanford), we gotta convince one or a statewide elected official who is not on coke, to run.
I predict Graham will suck up to the President so the White House will dissuade a challenge in 2020 and I’m afraid that might work.
Actually, I recall that Ravenel was supporting Giuliani in 2008. Despite our numerous problems with Rudy, I don’t believe for a moment he’d have played Ringer to Zero as McQueeg and Willard did. He didn’t hesitate to go nuclear on the grossly incompetent Dinkins in their 1993 rematch and knock him out.
Coke or not, I’d have voted for Ravenel over the creepy closet-job Graham any day of the week.
I also seriously disagree with Graham not being weak, because he is, and those low numbers prove that. He has no excuse for getting less than 60% of the vote. 2014 was his worst performance to date, a click below his first run in 2002, and this against mostly desultory Dem opposition. That he could barely clear 55% against a badly divided field in the primary shows that a ficus plant could beat him one-on-one with better funding and support. He is toxic with the base.
He endorsed Paul in 2012, I think because he was upset coke wasn’t legal.
Senator Ravenel being arrested by Obama at the GOP low point in 2009 would have been a devastating scandal. I never watched his stupid reality show but it sounds like he’s White trash.
As for 2014, a ficus plant would have been a much stronger candidate than a Neo-Confederate State Senator with financial problems, Graham would have easily made the race about his opponent.
And if Scott had Ravenel and a Libertarian run against him he wouldn’t have cleared 60% either. Weak Republicans see rats overperform against then, Graham’s rat only slightly out performed Scott because of the extra ballot line, and actually underperformed her on the rat line.
Given the field in 2012 (or 2008, for that matter), I wouldn’t hold that against him. Willfully endorsing scum like Willard, however... That soured me on ex-Sen. DeMint and his bizarre fetish for trying to cozy up to him, and extraordinarily huge blind spot and lack of good judgment.
Of course, Ravenel didn’t even make it to the primary contest in 2008, and voters should’ve had the sense to toss Linda in favor of Buddy Witherspoon, who had no baggage. When he failed to place, I unapologetically endorsed Bob Conley, the DINO. Same with 2014, I would’ve endorsed anyone else that would’ve gotten Linda into the runoff. When he was nominated again, I endorsed Ravenel as an Independent.
Sometimes, some people are so odious and destructive as sitting members that they just have to be taken out by any means. If it means voting for the Democrat or endorsing 3rd party, so be it. People like Graham, Murkowski, McQueeg & the Flake, Kirk, McConnell, Collins, Cockroach, Sassy, Portman, Lamar!, Corker, just for starters, all have no business being in the Senate. Either they’ve stayed too long or are of more help to and are a part of the leftist anti-America swamp dwellers.
Sadly, we’ve seen some other SC pols go native or just plain strange. Mark Sanford, whom I thought was of Presidential timber, got ate up by termites. Bob Inglis, once well-regarded and who almost took Fritz Hollings out 6 years earlier, lost his mind and was thankfully dispatched by primary voters when he returned to the House. Linda should’ve been just as swiftly shown the door, and long ago. I’m not holding out for a perfect opponent, just someone that will remove him from power. How much better would we have been off, for example, if McQueeg had lost reelection in 1992 ? 6 years of his moronic uber-feminist opponent Clare “Tits, Not Boobs” Sargent, would’ve been better for AZ and replaced with an actual Conservative in 1998 than 25+ years more of Zero’s ringer.
Conversely I was not fazed at all over DeMint (or anyone) endorsing Romney. Hell in 2008 I went with Romney over Duckapee and McCain. And given the same 3 choices I would again. Barf.
As you know I differ heavily with you on that “better they lose” stuff, subtract all the Republicans you named and Shoemer is pushing 60 seats, Gorsuch is not on the court, the Cabinet is half empty.
For me the threshold to back an “I” is high, for example I endorsed Joe Miller (running as the Libertarian) against Murkowski last year specifically because the rat was so weak that Miller was polling in 2nd place. And he did place 2nd, the rat 4th behind an Independent, Miller did better than their combined vote. 44-29, might have been able to win that with more effort.
My threshold to support a rat is rat/rat runoff or rat/worse runoff like Gavin Newsom for Mayor of SF against a Green who’s platform was “let’s let homeless people keep crapping the streets”. I would never at this point support any rat over any Republican. Conley creeped me out, Buchanaite/Paulbot who joined the democrats over Iraq? Pass. I’d sooner worship Satan than give a democrat a single seat for any amount of time.
An aside since I mentioned him, Newsom’s ex-wife Kimberly Guilfoyle, now on Fox and ostensibly no longer on the dark side, I was surprised to read she was a Young Republican in college, I wonder why she married that twerp.
“moronic uber-feminist opponent Clare “Tits, Not Boobs” Sargent,”
Do you wanna fill in on that? ;d His ‘92 opponent?
2008 and 2012 remains the nadir of Republican Presidential candidates, where nearly all were Deep State Democrat agents.
Remember that when we defeat one of the traitors, that doesn’t mean the seat stays Democrap.
I’m not a do-or-die Republican, I’m a Conservative. If the Republican candidate has a proven record of working against Conservatism, I will endorse their defeat, period.
Sometimes having the worst of the worst elected will bring the electorate back to their senses.
As for Kimberly Guilfoyle, who knows ? Maybe she thought Twosome was going places. Of course, establishment Dems and R’s get along famously, anyhow.
Bill Clinton met with the AG on a plane.
That was the feminist Dem who won the right to face McQueeg in 1992. In the same election, wrongfully impeached ex-Gov. Evan Mecham challenged Zero’s future ringer as an Independent (he knew Johnny was a weasel). Sargent, backed by the moonbat leftist groups, uttered the infamous line of the election cycle, “I think it’s about time we voted for senators with breasts. We’ve been voting for boobs long enough.” Of course, in the case of McQueeg, she had him nailed.
In any event, between Mecham and Sargent (who got a stunningly low 31.6% of the vote) was not enough to stop the Keating 5 Krook. She only carried Apache County (McQueeg even carried now ultra-Dem Santa Cruz (Nogales)).
I didn’t know Meechman ran against him.
Was McPain known to be slime that far back?
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