Posted on 08/01/2013 11:45:04 AM PDT by cotton1706
The first woman to graduate from the Citadel is planning to challenge South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham in the Republican primary next year.
Charleston businesswoman Nancy Mace will head to Goose Creek Saturday to announce her Senate campaign, The Daily Caller News Foundation has learned.
“This isn’t about one senator,” Mace told TheDCNF. “The only way to change Washington is to change who we send to Washington.”
“Washington is out of touch,” she added. “Voters are frustrated. They’re looking for someone authentic.”
In a June fundraising email, the Senate Conservatives Fund listed Graham as one of three Republican senators the group would support a primary campaign against if “strong, conservative challengers emerge.”
Mace, who has written articles for The Daily Caller, is a Fort Bragg native who graduated from South Carolina’s military college in 1999, becoming the first woman graduate since the Citadel was founded in 1842. She later wrote a memoir of her experience at the school and runs a public relations firm in Charleston.
Last year, Club for Growth president Chris Chocola told a Christian Science Monitor event that Graham was a potential target.
“If you’re looking to the horizon of 2014,” Chocola said, “the sun may rise over South Carolina.”
South Carolina Republican state Sen. Tom Davis predicted to TheDCNF last year that “someone will challenge Lindsey Graham.”
After Graham spoke out in support of the National Security Agency’s data collection practices under the Obama administration, Mace wrote a scathing post at the conservative blog RedState chastising the senator.
“In Senator Graham’s world, the Constitution doesn’t exist,” she wrote. “In Senator Graham’s world, the entire Bill of Rights is negotiable.”
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Exactly. Not sure why everyone is so excited. Split the vote, and poof, Lindsey is back in office.
If someone told me John McCain set Nancy up to run to save his little buddy I probably wouldn’t be shocked.
Lindsey Graham Likely to Face Several Primary Challengers (force a runoff!)
Mace .... or Lee Bright?
A woman vs an feminine man
Choose the authentic female!
They are running in three different States. Bevin against McConnell in Kentucky. Mace abgainst Graham in South Carolina. Cotton against Pryor in Arkansas.
YES!! Go Nancy Mace and Bevin.
This Texan says Amen to that!
We need a strong conservative to squish Corny.
Good luck!!!
I would judge her to be “real world” attractive.
Great pic, thanks!
Go, Nancy!! Our unalienable rights are granted by God—not government—and as such are not open to debate, negotiation or compromise!!
We don’t retreat. We RELOAD!!
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Thank you. That sounds much better.
IMO she nor any other female should have ever been allowed there to begin with, nor should they be allowed in the military Academies.
Of course today that is considered criminal to even think—
that women should not be allowed in Combat or to go to male only Military Academies. I don’t really care what others think, but that is my opinion and I am sticking to it.
That opinion would not stop me from voting for her instead of Graham if I could vote in SC.
In fact if Graham had gone to the Citadel he could have been the first female there IMO.
First Bevin, now Mace. The battle has begun!!!
now we'll have two conservatives battling Graham... bad news...they'll split the conservative vote...
Well, sure, but isn’t Graham one of the stalwarts of the Vichy Republican party?
If there was one goal that ALL Freepers can agree upon, it is that we need to get together and throw out Lindsay Graham next year.
Last year, I wrote a check to Richard Mourdock in Indiana. He succeeded in knocking off Dick Lugar. That was a worthy achievement. If only Mourdock hadn’t put his foot in his mouth in the last month of the campaign...
I hope Jim Robinson will use the full force and power of Free Republic to help rid us of Lindsay Graham. Let’s make this our #1 goal in 2014!
No More Lindsay Graham!
her first race is a US Senate seat?
That is ambitious
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