Depending on how you look at it, Bill Clinton was a pragmatist or an opportunist, he was never a hard-left ideologue during his Presidency. So he was willing to go along with a GOP Congress to sign things like tax cuts and welfare reform into law. That doesn't make him any more admirable - it just shows him to be non-ideological. The same thing is true for non-ideological, liberal-leaning Republicans like Graham. Sometimes they do things we like, a lot of the time they do things that the Democrats like.
You don’t even need to use the example of WJC. The
current President with whom we share a basic overall
approval of is not any kind of an idealogue.
You and I aren’t really far apart. But, I’m not asking
anybody to admire Graham or anyone else. I’m just
suggesting that we should be sophisticated enough to
understand that guys like Graham are not all one thing
or all the other. Yah, Graham is never going to be
anything close to my favorite conservative. However, I
appreciate the help from wherever it comes. For the
record I don’t know how Graham’s voting record stacks
up against other Republicans. Maybe you do.