Posted on 05/16/2008 6:58:56 PM PDT by Falcon28
The Worst Republican Senator Quin Hillyer Published 5/15/2008 12:08:02 AM
South Carolina's Lindsey Graham is a flop. He pretends to be a conservative, but sells out conservatives and insults them while doing so. He pretends to be effective at reaching across party lines, but the only thing he effectively does is help the other party. He inhabits the Senate seat of Strom Thurmond, legendary for great attention to his South Carolina constituents, but Graham spends most of his time trailing behind John McCain like a valet as McCain criss-crosses the country in pursuit of the presidency. He called Ted Kennedy "one of the most principled men I've ever met." In sum, in the words of conservative movement stalwart Richard Viguerie, "Lindsey Graham is part of the problem."
What, for example, could possibly have possessed Graham, in April of 2006, to write an essay for Time magazine about the virtues of Hillary Clinton? He called her "a smart, prepared, serious senator." She is "sought out by her colleagues to form legislative partnerships." She has managed to "build unusual political alliances with...conservatives."
He praises liberals, but reserves particular venom for conservatives who disagree with him. The most infamous example came at a speech to the utterly radical Hispanic group La Raza -- it was bad enough that he spoke to them, much less what he said -- when he described what he would do to opponents of the awful immigration proposal he helped Ted Kennedy craft: "We're going to tell the bigots to shut up." The idea that only a bigot could oppose the Kennedy amnesty plan was a recurring theme with Graham: On This Week, he told George Stephanopoulos that opponents were like those in earlier years who put up signs that said "No Catholics, no Jews, no Irish need apply.".........
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Soon to be vice president?
“Soon to be vice president?”
Lord help us.
Or we could kick him out before he gets the chance:
Lindsey is a sniveling leftist weasel in GOP clothing — the enemy within.
I think Mel Martinez would give Goober a run for his money in the looser catagory.
BTTT
I was so hopeful when he was elected. A microcosm of what has become of the GOP revolution.
Don’t forget Chuck Hagel, Gov. Perry, and Trent Lott...all part of the Goober Squad.
You left out the candidate part, he has walked around behind mccain so long he has a brown ring around his neck.
I wonder what happened to this guy anyway. He used to be a conservative. It’s almost as though he got a lobotomy or something. Maybe his was one of those 640 FBI files that the Clintonistas got their paws on.
Everytime I see that pic I want to go outside and start chopping a tree down with my axe. It makes me feel better.
Lindsey Graham is gay. He has been under pressure from that gay group who takes pleasure in outing gay Republicans, especially if they don’t support gay marriage. It all started during the impeachment trial, when they called Graham, light in the loafers. He joined McCain and the other gay Republicans to gain cover because McCain didn’t support the anti-gay marriage ammendment.
That’s what happened to Lindsey Graham.
Must be seen by all Americans, including crazy libs:
I’m mailing a couple copies out to the kooky libs in my family.
Must be seen by all Americans, including crazy libs:
I’m mailing a couple copies out to the kooky libs in my family.
“Soon to be vice president?”
If McCain chooses Lindsey Graham as his running mate, I will absolutely be voting Democrat in the upcoming Presidential election.
The kind of destruction those two could wreak on the Republican Party and the convervative momvement is just unacceptable.
I’m not one of those “cut off my nose to spite my face” people. I’d vote for McCain by himself, particularly as we’d only see four years of him. With a better vice presidential candidate, absolutely. But elevating Graham to that level of power? Not in a million years. It could potentially throw the movement off for a decade or more.
If Condi will take it, she'll get it. She'll be used as the counterweight to Obama. And I'll admit, though she's no conservative, she'd be a hell of a lot better than Graham.
By the increasingly socialist standards of the GOP nowadays that means he is a conservative.
Even by socialist standards he is not conservative. I don’t contribute to the RNC any more because they pour money to swine like hin, apologies to all swine.
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