Twelve years ago this was elected as our Senator from South Carolina... Now it is time to  kiss the Fairey GOODBYE! |
h/t to martin_fierro for the fairey graphic
Posted on 05/25/2014 11:05:36 AM PDT by Resettozero
COLUMBIA, SC — THE GREATEST danger to our nation is not that the Republicans will take over the Senate this fall — or that they won’t. It’s not that Hillary Clinton will be elected president in two years. Or Ted Cruz.
It’s not even a nuclear Iran or an expansionist Vladimir Putin — though we ought to be a lot more concerned about those possibilities than the others.
No, our biggest danger is that the political center will disintegrate. That we will cease to be able to find — indeed, that we will stop even trying to find — areas of agreement between Republicans and Democrats, rich and poor, black and white, young and old, conservative and liberal. That we will abandon pragmatism for ideological purity. That we will lose the ability to solve the problems that face our nation — indeed, that we will lose the ability to agree on what those problems even are.
Only once before in our history have extreme voices held such sway in our national conversation. Only once before has the sensible center seemed so fragile, so incapable of overcoming the voices of extremism, of bringing moderation, of reminding us that those things that unite us are far more important than those things that divide us. When the sensible center could not hold, our nation went to war with itself.
We are not near a civil war today, but we are trapped in gridlock as our problems mount and reasonable solutions wither on the vine.
This is why it is essential to South Carolina — and to the nation — that voters send U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham back to Washington for another term. Lindsey Graham is one of the dwindling voices in Washington who is fighting to preserve the sensible center.
(Excerpt) Read more at thestate.com ...
| Twelve years ago this was elected as our Senator from South Carolina... Now it is time to kiss the Fairey GOODBYE! |
h/t to martin_fierro for the fairey graphic
Just remember: linda is the “conservative leader.”
“Editorial: SC, US needs Lindsey Graham in the Senate”
After all, what could possibly be an improvement over the disaster we are currently suffering from the Big Government/Open Borders Dims and the Big Government/Open Borders Republicans?
Brilliant.
Yep
Thanks sweetie.
Really you think Lindsey Graham would help both sides together? Really, Lindsey is so far left he makes Liz Warren look conservative. No thanks, we don't need Republicans who will help bring down the USA. We need leaders who'll fight for the constitution of the USA, not the Charter of the UN. Time up, Lindsey...
Oops.... my phone did it again...Seat should be Dear...sorry
Just in passing along those lines...my liberal brother says we should compromise on abortion
I said only compromise might be instead of them killing a child, maybe they could just wound the child
No we don’t. Send nancy boi packing. Mams on a bull.
You will vote for Romney no matter what and I won’t.
People like you are really Democrats who are thrilled that Romney lost and Obama won. I hope you are hurting big time with Obama.
Bottom line is she lost. I found her very weak. I hope we do better in the future.
Typical Democrat. Cut and run. You don’t have me pegged at all. Your delusion to vote for Obama is repulsive to me.
The day that Romney secured the nomination was the day that the GOP GUARANTEED to Obozo that Obozo and his agenda had absolutely nothing to fear in 2012. That was the day when Obozo was actually re-elected whether you want to concede that or not. Except on $$$$$ issues, there was ABSOLUTELY NO MEANINGFUL difference between Romney and Obozo and none between the money-grubbing "GOP-E" Congressional leaders (McConnell, Bonehead, Cantor, Cornyn, McCarthy, Rogers and their corruptocrat ilk) and their Demonrat counterparts.
If the "GOP-E" would like to keep on getting identical results, electing the Hildebeast (or the Medusa in a crusty pantsuit as some would prefer to identify it) for two terms starting in 2017, then nominate another playtoy of the greedy pig class of Wall Streeters grubbing down on our tax dollars and sharing a small percentage of their loot with their compliant underlings and wholly owned whores in their caucuses, TARP bailout, anyone? Federal subsidies to investment banks so that those multi-million $$$$ "bonuses" can prevent mansion divestment in the Hamptons? Is there any tactic too low for these whores to sell out our nation and their constituents?
When the GOP-E Ken Doll (Romney) cannot engage Obozo on Obozocare and its many evil provisions because Romney INVENTED Obozocare as governor of Taxachusetts, when he is utterly ignorant, like all Romneys before him, of all things military and thus REFUSES to engage Obozo on Benghazi, when, as a gun grabber, Romney had every interest in not engaging Obozo on Fast and Furious, when Romney has been an enthusiastic endorser of baby-butchery throughout his life like his daddy before him, etc., etc., etc., ad infinitum, ad nauseam, then there is absolutely NO REASON to vote for the SOB other than he is not Obozo, which is just not enough of a reason to turn our nation over to GOP-E and its ruling class $$$$ pigs, unless for Muffie's trust fund and Muffie is neither friend nor family to me and mine.
I am not particularly wealthy and Romney's taxes soaring if Obozo gets his way is no skin off my nose. In fact, you have written on this thread that you hope anti-ruling class conservatives who would not vote for Romney should suffer under Obozo's second term and that you hope we are hurting. I'll see that and raise you one. It is Wall Streeters who will suffer under Obozo far more than people like me. I voted for Tom Hoefling (our own Eternal Vigilance) and I thank him for giving me that opportunity after voting for every GOP POTUS candidate from 1968 through 2008 (in most cases with a clothes pin on my nose.
Never again will I vote for the likes of Nixon, Ford, Bush I, Dole or McCain! I am open to persuasion on Bush II. I was a Reagan state chairman when he challenged that sorry POS Gerald Ford. I even voted for Ford against Jimmuh Peanut. I have realized that I owe my vote to no party and no man. If either wants my vote, they will have to earn it the old-fashioned way by deserving it.
If you wanted a conservative perhaps you should have voted for one during the primary. The national election you vote for the jerk nominated regardless. Of course some love Obama more than the Country which you seem to be that type.
That is a FALSE pretense.
I'd have voted for Newt Gingrich in 2014, and believe me, I don't consider him "ideologically pure" by a very long shot. I'd have compromised. No one asked me to compromise with Romney; they asked me to surrender. Voting for what he had to offer was as nuts as voting for Obama. As far as what Lindsey actually does once in power, it is about the same thing there. He enables the left.
As for agreeing on what "those problems even are," I would wager that on the ground in America in real people who may or may not vote, as opposed to the ones harvested by Democrats in old folks homes and homeless shelters, or through unions, or illegals votes, etc. etc. not to mention outright "dead" votes -- but REAL folks day to day, would agree that government is the problem.
Vote for Democrats, you vote for more government. Vote for Republicans, you vote for more government. People want to vote for less government. They want to vote FOR getting rid of quite a lot of it.
Lindsey is a functional leftist. Voting for him is nuts. It is the same as voting for a Democrat because Lindsey will move left, govern toward the left as he "changes his ideas about how to address our problems." After all, as the author lamely points out further down in the piece:
The center is not a fixed point; it moves to the left or right as our national experience changes and we change our ideas about how to address our problems. (what a load of unmitigated hornswaggle)
Lindsey needs to lose. The only way to start moving things toward the right is to vote such that liberal Republicans lose. But really ... it's too late. The "Republican" brand is dead and gone.
We will need a 2nd party in 2016, because the Republican party will put forth a functional leftist as its presidential nominee.
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