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Lindsey Graham: McCain's 'little jerk'
The Politico ^ | April 9, 2008 | AMIE PARNES

Posted on 04/09/2008 9:42:48 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia

If anyone else called him “little jerk,” Sen. Lindsey Graham might be offended.

But the jab comes from Sen. John McCain, so he wears it like a badge of honor.

“If John’s not belittling you, you’re in trouble,” Graham said. “He calls me lots of other names, too, but they’re not appropriate for the newspaper.”

McCain and Graham aren’t just friends. They’re inseparable, so much so that colleagues, staffers and journalists have begun making cracks about the relationship between the freshman senator from South Carolina and the man who would be president.

Some call Graham a lapdog. Others say he acts as though he’s one of McCain’s legislative aides. One Senate aide, who called Graham and Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman (I-Conn.) “Pips” to McCain’s Gladys Knight, said that Graham “fawns over McCain like there’s no tomorrow.” In the run-up to this week’s hearings for Army Gen. David Petraeus and Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker, The Washington Post’s Tom Ricks said Graham “sometimes seems like McCain’s ‘Mini-Me.’”

“I think it’s almost a father-son relationship,” said Sen. Mel Martinez (R-Fla.), a friend of both senators and another member of their Senate clique. “I think Lindsey looks to [McCain] and relies on him. But I think John draws on Lindsey’s energy and relies on him for a laugh.”

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: amnesty; goober; graham; immigration; lindseygraham; littlejerk; mccain
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1 posted on 04/09/2008 9:42:50 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
Min-me.

LOL

2 posted on 04/09/2008 9:45:10 AM PDT by KC Burke (Men of intemperate minds can never be free...their passions forge their fetters.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Just your typical sociopathic latent psychosexual byplay between the some of the lowest scum on earth which is found in the treacherous sikko elitist club known as the United States Senate.


3 posted on 04/09/2008 9:45:32 AM PDT by Biblebelter (Barry, let your Uncle Jeremiah speak publicly, so he can set the record straight himself.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

“If anyone else called him “little jerk,” Sen. Lindsey Graham might be offended.”

Linday, how’d ya get that nickname?

Lindsay, what’s that white stuff on your blue dre....er, suit?


4 posted on 04/09/2008 9:46:43 AM PDT by Grunthor (http://constitutionparty.com/join.php)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Funny....here in South Carolina we have another nickname for him


5 posted on 04/09/2008 9:49:50 AM PDT by 4everontheRight ("Boy, those French: They have a different word for everything! "- Steve Martin)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Sounds like he should team up with Barney Frank and Sen. Toe tapper.


6 posted on 04/09/2008 9:50:38 AM PDT by Sig Sauer P220
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To: rightwingintelligentsia


gitchy gitchy gitchy gitchy goo!
7 posted on 04/09/2008 9:51:03 AM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

““I think it’s almost a father-son relationship,” said Sen. Mel Martinez (R-Fla.), a friend of both senators and another member of their Senate clique.”

Translation, the Open border lobby.....


8 posted on 04/09/2008 9:51:45 AM PDT by AuntB ('If there must be trouble let it be in my day, that my child may have peace." T. Paine)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

They both give me the heebie jeebies.


9 posted on 04/09/2008 9:58:52 AM PDT by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
This reminds me.

Is the NAACP still boycotting South Carolina?

10 posted on 04/09/2008 9:59:13 AM PDT by blam (Secure the border and enforce the law)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

That’s pretty close to barf alert material right there


11 posted on 04/09/2008 10:01:28 AM PDT by don-o (My son, Ben, reports to Parris Island on June 30.)
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To: holdonnow

Goober ping


12 posted on 04/09/2008 10:02:36 AM PDT by don-o (My son, Ben, reports to Parris Island on June 30.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

CREEPY!!!


14 posted on 04/09/2008 10:10:45 AM PDT by cvq3842
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

How sweet! McCain is building up a team that will be little jerks for him. This is just so endearing.


15 posted on 04/09/2008 10:11:26 AM PDT by pallis
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
“He calls me lots of other names, too, but they’re not appropriate for the newspaper.”

I've seen the word "fairy" in the newspaper before.

16 posted on 04/09/2008 10:11:29 AM PDT by King of Florida (A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.)
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To: 4everontheRight

PLease tell me there is a chance that he will get bounced in the primaries...


17 posted on 04/09/2008 10:13:56 AM PDT by steel_resolve (I stand with the Tibetans.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Puke, puke, puke, puke, puke puke.

That is the only word that comes to mind. Pardon me, I need to go puke.


18 posted on 04/09/2008 10:16:59 AM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

you need to link this on the Lounge thread tonight.


19 posted on 04/09/2008 10:20:02 AM PDT by don-o (My son, Ben, reports to Parris Island on June 30.)
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To: 4everontheRight

Please tell me that you think South Carolina will vote Lentseed out after his first term?


20 posted on 04/09/2008 10:21:30 AM PDT by ohioman
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