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Graham on Trump: 'I'll beat his brains out' in S.C.
CNN ^ | August 24, 2015 | Eric Bradner

Posted on 08/25/2015 12:28:59 PM PDT by don-o

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To: Jim Robinson

She probably wears a fanny pack.


21 posted on 08/25/2015 12:36:11 PM PDT by funfan
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To: slapshot

“Linda”went from 1% down to ZERO!! He was just a mcamnesty butt boy. Now he is a knee slapping ,belly laugh JOKE.


22 posted on 08/25/2015 12:36:20 PM PDT by WENDLE (How did Hillary get Top Secret docs out of the Dedicated Secure Network facility?)
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To: don-o

I tuned into a radio show this morning and Lindsey was on with Brian Kilmeade and Elizabeth Hasselbeck. He ranted angrily about Trump, whining that all the other candidates like Kasich should criticize Trump for this and that.

Now I know why his panties were in a wad! Trump mocked his 4% showing in South Carolina, where he’s a senator! Ha!


23 posted on 08/25/2015 12:36:52 PM PDT by LostInBayport (When there are more people riding in the cart than there are pulling it, the cart stops moving...)
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To: don-o

“I’ll beat his brains out.”
With what Linda,your purse?


24 posted on 08/25/2015 12:37:18 PM PDT by Farmer Dean (stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
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To: don-o

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1508/25/ath.02.html

AT THIS HOUR WITH BERMAN AND MICHAELA

Lindsey Graham Comments on Jeb Bush “Anchor Babies” Comment, Donald Trump; Attempted Murder Investigation Against Paris Train Attacker; ISIS Destroys Ancient Temple in Syria; NY Prison Escape Seen from Prison Point of View. Aired 11:30a-12p ET

Aired August 25, 2015 - 11:30 ET

EXCERPT

SEN. LINDSEY GRAHAM (R-SC), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Good morning.

BOLDUAN: Thanks for coming in.

So on this bit about Jeb Bush and what he said, this “anchor babies” controversy, Donald Trump jumped all over this on Twitter calling Jeb Bush’s comments “a mess, clumsy,” really going after him. What do you call it?

GRAHAM: Well, I think Donald Trump’s pretty much an idiot on policy and Jeb Bush is a good man. And what Jeb was talking about is birth right tourism. Millionaires from China and other Asian nations as well as the Middle East buy tourist visas for the express purpose of having their wife deliver a baby in the United States. There are people who market to rich people in Asia and the Middle East. Come here for your vacation, we’ll get you a tourist visa with a maternity ward. I think that cheapens citizenship. I’d like to change that one day after we clean up this mess. That’s all Jeb was talking about.

BOLDUAN: That actually gets to the point that Jeb did try to make in bringing this up yesterday. He blames a lot of this on especially the Democratic attacks coming at him, saying this is a lot of P.C., this is a P.C. problem, political correctness problem, he shouldn’t have to apologize every time you say something. Do you think it’s a political correctness problem?

GRAHAM: When he said Asian people, he wasn’t being derogatory. Birth-right tourism is an industry that’s created to take advantage —

(CROSSTALK)

BOLDUAN: Especially from China though, not all Asians.

GRAHAM: Oh, yeah, China. But I don’t think Jeb Bush is a mean guy at all. I think he’s a wonderful guy. So people literally do buy tourist visas. They’re marketed where you can come here, have the child, a maternity ward in the resort. I think most Americans think that’s not a good way to give out citizenship. At least I think that.

BOLDUAN: Let’s talk about Donald Trump if we could.

GRAHAM: OK.

BOLDUAN: He’s obviously criticizing Jeb Bush for his remarks, but he also is on Twitter yet again for a second time last night attacking FOX News host, Megyn Kelly. And in attacking her, he re-tweeted a comment — re-tweeted a message that called her a bimbo. How can any candidate, Senator, be leading in the polls, saying something like that, even leading among women?

GRAHAM: All I can say is that he’s not leading among women in general. That he has a 65 percent disapproval rating among Hispanics according to a poll last night. Why? Because he says most illegal immigrants are rapists and drug dealers. His plan to deal with illegal immigration is constitutionally unsound. You can’t implement it. It won’t work, and he said last night on television that he would take American citizen children born here, whose parents are illegal, and send them all back. You can’t do that. I think that’s ridiculous. I think it’s illegal.

As to Megyn Kelly, we’ve got two problems in our party, with Hispanics and young women and the leader of our party has come up with a deportation plan that is Joseph McCarthy-like. And he is saying things about Megyn Kelly and other women that are digging a big hole. And the chairman of our party said he thought Donald Trump was a net positive. Let me tell you, I think he’s hurting our party. I want to be on record, no matter how well I do, as opposing Mr. Trump’s concept of what he would do with illegal — who they are and how he would solve the problem. I want to be the other side of history when he talks about Megyn Kelly.

[11:35:42] BOLDUAN: On both of those things, a lot of folks would agree with you, but clearly a lot of folks either aren’t hearing you or disagree with you.

GRAHAM: They’re frustrated.

BOLDUAN: But then — frustration, though, isn’t dissipated. Look at the latest polls.

GRAHAM: Can I be honest? Can I just be honest with you?

BOLDUAN: Of course, you can.

GRAHAM: There’s 25 percent of our party who thinks Obama was born in Kenya, 25 percent of the party wants him to be a Muslim, because they hate him so much. So there’s a dark side of politics that Mr. Trump is appealing to. Demagoguing immigrants — he’s not the first guy to do this, and he won’t be the last. And there’s always a market for it, but it’s not sustainable. It will ruin our party. If he becomes the nominee, we’ll get killed.

BOLDUAN: You may say it’s not sustainable, but it surely has sustained. Just look at the latest poll. This one coming out from Monmouth University. I know you saw this one. He not only has a sizable lead — we’ll throw it up there — 30 percent. It’s not just a lead anywhere, it’s in South Carolina. It’s in your home state.

GRAHAM: I won 56 percent of my primary against six opponents. There’s 30 percent of my primary electorate that believes that Obama is a Muslim, that he was born in Kenya, and that would deport everybody. They’re frustrated. I’m just saying that the policies that Mr. Trump is proposing are demagoguery. His approach to describing Illinois legal immigrants are hurting us with Hispanics. The way he attacks women is going to be a death blow to the future of the party.

Come to South Carolina and I’ll beat his brains out. I know my state. This is a silly season in politics.

To say that you’re going to go to Iraq and Syria and take their oil and use it for our benefit as a way to destroy ISIL is insanely dangerous. You’re going to turn everybody into the Middle East against America if you do that. You won’t destroy ISIL. That will be his undoing.

BOLDUAN: Can you win the nomination — in your strategy, can you win the nomination without winning South Carolina?

GRAHAM: No, I’m going to win South Carolina. I have to do well in New Hampshire.

BOLDUAN: Yes.

GRAHAM: I got to do well in New Hampshire. If I do well in New Hampshire, I’ll win my state. Here is what will not happen. Donald Trump is not going to be the

nominee of the Republican Party. If he is, that’s the end of the Republican Party because what he is doing is —

(CROSSTALK)

BOLDUAN: So if he is, what do you do?

GRAHAM: Well, then we’ll lose. We’ll lose, and we should lose. 60 percent of the Hispanic community in this country, legal Hispanics, find Mr. Trump offensive. I find him offensive. When he attacks Megyn Kelly, a lot of young women think, well, why would you do that? I find that offensive? Where is the party leadership?

BOLDUAN: Not only is the party leadership, my question to you is —

GRAHAM: Where are the other candidates?

BOLDUAN: Where are the other candidates? Why isn’t your message connecting?

GRAHAM: I think it will over time. We’re about to get attacked. There’s more likelihood of a 9/11, anytime before 9/11, there’s more terrorist safe havens, a series of perfect platforms to attack us. Mr. Trump’s strategy to destroy ISIL is worse than Obama, believe it or not. Obama’s strategy is not working but the idea to take Iraq and Syrian oil as a way to destroy ISIL and use it for your benefit would be the greatest boom for recruiting for ISIL in the history of the organization. So his policy positions are complete gibberish. Over time, we’re going to get serious. Who is ready to be commander-in- chief? He is shallow. He’s ill prepared to be commander-in-chief. He doesn’t know what he’s talking about in terms of how our laws work. He says the worst things possible about immigrants and women, and he’s a complete idiot when it comes to Middle East policy. So I think over time common sense will prevail. He’s a showman. He’s really good at that.

BOLDUAN: Right.

GRAHAM: But the idea that he would be the commander-in-chief of the finest fighting force in history suggesting that they’re going to go back to Iraq and Syria and say, hey, I’m here from the United States, I’d like to take your oil, do you mind, and use it for our benefit. He would turn everybody in the Middle East against us who wants to help us fight ISIL. So all I can say is our soldiers deserve better, our party deserves better.

To the Hispanic community, if you’re watching this broadcast, he doesn’t represent us. Just a small portion of us. To young women out there, we don’t believe what Mr. Trump says about Megyn Kelly.

BOLDUAN: Very strong, Senator Lindsey Graham. “Jackass” was what made your cell phone go public last time. “Idiot.” Hold that cell phone close, Senator.

(LAUGHTER) GRAHAM: OK.

BOLDUAN: Great to see.

GRAHAM: Thank you.

BOLDUAN: Thanks so much for coming in.

GRAHAM: Thank you.


25 posted on 08/25/2015 12:38:02 PM PDT by maggief
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To: don-o

“Congratulations, you are only 26 points behind me.” Trump twitter to Graham after the South Carolina poll was released today. LOL


26 posted on 08/25/2015 12:38:13 PM PDT by BigEdLB (They need to target the 'Ministry of Virtue' which has nothing to do with virtue.)
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To: Jim Robinson

LOL !!!!


27 posted on 08/25/2015 12:38:36 PM PDT by moehoward
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To: don-o

Classic “whistling past the graveyard”...shades of Ed Muskie.


28 posted on 08/25/2015 12:38:43 PM PDT by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
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To: don-o
Graham on Trump: 'I'll beat slap his brains out' in S.C.
29 posted on 08/25/2015 12:42:44 PM PDT by Eddie01
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To: don-o; upchuck
Make fun of Linda Thread.

I am pretty, so pretty. I feel SO free. I really let that mean old nasty Donald have it!

30 posted on 08/25/2015 12:45:49 PM PDT by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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To: don-o

I literally laughed out loud when I read this headline. I can beat up Graham.. and I’m 5’2” and weigh 125 pounds.


31 posted on 08/25/2015 12:46:01 PM PDT by Hildy (God bless America, God bless SIlverton, Colorado and God protect us from the EPA.)
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To: don-o

What’s he going to do, hit him with his purse?


32 posted on 08/25/2015 12:46:42 PM PDT by euram
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To: don-o

who turned Linda into an attack poodle?

Is this supposed to bleed Donald’s attention away from real issues and keep him in an endless twitter war with idiots?


33 posted on 08/25/2015 12:49:10 PM PDT by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: don-o

hey Lindsey.. Massengill or Summer’s Eve?


34 posted on 08/25/2015 12:51:29 PM PDT by Lib-Lickers 2
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To: don-o

that’s the only way he’d have a chance to move up in the standings of contenders... before beating 16th, after beating, 15th...

a trump cage match would be fun to watch and could wipe out our national debt on pay per view.


35 posted on 08/25/2015 12:52:40 PM PDT by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world.)
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To: don-o

That South Carolina Peckerwood has never ‘beat anyone’s brains’ out in his entire life. He fits the definition of ‘pansy’.

I doubt that even Donald Trump would pull this, but I’d love to see one of the candidates ask Lindsey Graham a question something like:

“Lindsey, you are on the record as ‘welcoming’ the former Bruce Jenner, now ‘Caitlyn’ Jenner to the Republican Party, and the gay-oriented Log Cabin Republicans seem to like you very much, so for all of America watching, could you either come out and admit that you are in fact, gay or perhaps explain why at 60 years of age, you are still a bachelor?”


36 posted on 08/25/2015 12:55:07 PM PDT by mkjessup (Trump is the barbarian at the RINO gate, Cruz is his 'inside man' and I LIKE it !!)
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To: maggief

Linda doesn’t think the MEXICAN govt. doesn’t do the exact same marketing to their migrant pickers etc and non-propertied people? The govt. of Mexico is well recorded telling their people how to come to the US illegally and get bennies, as well as how to send home pesos via Bank of America (obamaumaos bank of choice in Charlotte) The electronic ETF send fees are a huge profit center. Walmart does it too, through their “banco” e cards (actually better than using the cambios and phone transmit, but not as discreet).

The number is in the billions of money transfer, weekly.

Trying to shift this to the asians is probably also true, done differently. But it still does not address the FACT that there is NO provision for “birthright” citizenship. It does not exist and is a figment of bureaucrats working for the Establishment. Mostly dems, but a hell of a lot of illegal employers of every stripe.


37 posted on 08/25/2015 12:56:34 PM PDT by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: don-o
You brute! You vicious brute! Got get 'em Linda!
38 posted on 08/25/2015 12:56:53 PM PDT by Noumenon (Resistance. Restoration. Retribution.)
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To: mkjessup

I bet Lindsey won’t come in third in South Carolina


39 posted on 08/25/2015 12:57:12 PM PDT by scooby321
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To: don-o

Thx, i needed a good laugh today.


40 posted on 08/25/2015 12:58:56 PM PDT by 1Old Pro
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