Lindsey Graham: McCain's 'little jerk'

The Politico ^ | April 9, 2008 | AMIE PARNES

[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.”

[KC Burke]

Min-me.

LOL

[Biblebelter]

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.

[Grunthor]

“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?

[4everontheRight]

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

[Sig Sauer P220]

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

[Liberty Valance]

gitchy gitchy gitchy gitchy goo!

[AuntB]

““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.....

[pissant]

They both give me the heebie jeebies.

[blam]

This reminds me.

Is the NAACP still boycotting South Carolina?

[don-o]

That’s pretty close to barf alert material right there

[don-o]

Goober ping

[F15Eagle]

Somebody please tell me that Graham will be thrown out this year — even though we’ll have to fight McCain on shamnesty round III

[cvq3842]

CREEPY!!!

[pallis]

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

[King of Florida]

“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.

[steel_resolve]

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

[freekitty]

Puke, puke, puke, puke, puke puke.

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

[don-o]

you need to link this on the Lounge thread tonight.

[ohioman]

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

[F15Eagle]

we all said “please tell me Graham will be gone this year” LOL

good job!

[353FMG]

Aaaaaagh! That was another easy screw into the uninformed and gullible American masses. Aaaaaaagh!

[rightwingintelligentsia]

Yeah, Mark may get a kick out of this.

[visualops]

Well, I’ve seen several vehicles around here with “Dump Lindsey” stickers- let’s hope that’s what happens at the ballot box.

[andy58-in-nh]

[F15Eagle]

Thanks for the sitrep! May it be so!

[Liz]

Yoo--hoo, Lindsay. Your Topsider penny loafers are here.
(Perfect with your knife-creased Dockers and Gucci canvas tri-color belt).

[Liz]

ROTFL——now that’s funny

[visualops]

Warning! Warning! Yuck alert!

[OKIEDOC]

Graham said. “He calls me lots of other names,

COMMENT:

Senator Gram-amnesty.

Probably not as many or more unmentionable names than I have used for you, you little arrogant runt.

[Mamzelle]

Senator Toadie Graham...ick...ick...ick...

[don-o]

LOL!!!

bumpmark to snatch that ‘un

[org.whodat]

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

I think that brown ring around his neck say's he is beyond that point. The dirt boy from south Carolina. I sure hope some democrat cleans his clock.

[E. Cartman]

“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.”

Graham plays Christopher Moltisanti to MacNutJob's Tony Soprano...but much, much nerdier.

[E. Cartman]

““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.”

No, more like TopMan and Bottom (with apologies to Batman and Robin.)

[Dr. Scarpetta]

As far as the ‘little jerk’ phrase goes, Lindsey is somewhat little with a height of 5’7.

[Yossarian]

[Recovering_Democrat]

Brokeback Republicans.

[300magnum]

Ping?

[Politicalmom]

Ew.

[ErnBatavia]

here in South Carolina we have another nickname for him

Would it rhyme with "maggot", such as the word Ann Coulter used to describe the silk pony?

[Polyxene]

Puke, puke, puke, puke, puke puke.

Junky-industrial-waste puke!

[CDHart]

"the treacherous sikko elitist club known as the United States Senate."

An excellent description, IMO. And the best part is, we get to pay for it. Isn't that wonderful?

Carolyn

[USMCGunnut]

He is one of the few reasons I will visit the polls this year. Not for endorsement either.

[Naplm]

how did we get stuck with this ass and his sidekick, I,m starting to think this whole damn thing is a shellgame.

[USMCGunnut]

“Is the NAACP still boycotting South Carolina?”

Hard to tell, 2008 crime rate statistics are not in yet.

[4everontheRight]

“Would it rhyme with “maggot”, such as the word Ann Coulter used to describe the silk pony?”.......thats one of um!!

[4everontheRight]

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

If it were up to the Upstate of SC I would be willing to bet he would not return to office.....it is the southern part of the state....the Charleston area and Columbia in the middle part of the state that keeps his dreams afloat.

[no dems]

Lindsey Graham; I can’t stand that little sissy; and his voice drives me up a wall. How on earth did the people of South Carolina ever elect him?

[definitelynotaliberal]

I think we’re losing perspective here. “Lowest scum”? Shouldn’t we be saving that for beings like Eliot Spitzer? If Graham and McCain are ‘the lowest scum on earth which is found in the treacherous sikko elitist club known as the United States Senate’, what would you call Uday Hussein or that Saudi student who regularly assaulted his Indonesian maid or the guy who took a 20-month old to a bathroom to sexually assault her?

Perhaps a little moderation, hmm?