State Sen. Bright opens US Senate campaign website, to challenge Lindsey Graham

ap ^ | 8/6/13 | staff

[Nachum]

SPARTANBURG, S.C. - State Sen. Lee Bright has brought his campaign website online as he considers a Republican primary challenge against U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham next year.

[Nachum]

Just sayin'

[Trapped Behind Enemy Lines]

Hopefully there is Bright at the end of the tunnel.

[Servant of the Cross]

Lee Bright ping.

[Sybeck1]

Splitting the vote...just saying

[SharpRightTurn]

Re: Grahamnesty.

[stephenjohnbanker]

Bright can forget about the....

Poofter vote

[autumnraine]

Now for McCain.

[LibLieSlayer]

Maybe not... Glenn Beck interviewed the woman running against lindsey this morning and she was not bad but she was not up to the level that it will take to beat lightfoot... not yet. He asked her about her soul and she couldn't answer... he asked her what guiding principles governed her life (her words) and she quoted a part of the Declaration of Independence:

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”

She could not elaborate upon any of these things. She may end up being fantastic... but she was not on the ball and was not able to rise to the level that it will take to beat grahamnesty. She may be fine... just telling it like it is today. She was good on many of her answers but Beck asks everyone that question on their soul and she or someone near her didn't do the proper research... fag-boy graham will.

[C. Edmund Wright]

he has made one extremely intelligent hire....to his campaign.....(just sayin...)

[upchuck]

Thanks for the ping. Once more, for those readers who are not South Carolinians and don't understand how our primaries work:

If no candidate receives at least 50% of the vote in the primary, a runoff will be held between the top two vote-getters.

Voters who voted in a party's primary, can vote only in the runoff of the same party. Voters who did not vote in the primary, may vote in either party's runoff.

The primary is for Democratic and Republican candidates only. Candidates running unopposed for their Party's nomination will not appear on primary ballots.

Voters may not vote in a political party's runoff if they voted in another political party's primary. However, voters who did not vote in either politicial party's primary may vote in either politicial party's runoff.

And put one of these fine folks in his place:
Nancy Mace	Lee Bright	Richard Cash

FReepmail me if you want on or off this ping list. (Additions: free; Deletions: $10/ea :)

[JRandomFreeper]

No, it won't split the vote in the primary. The more the merrier in the primary.

/johnny

[ken5050]

One commentator made the point that multiple opponents actually INCREASE our chance of beating Graham. In a two horse race....the incumbent has a lot going for him. With 4-5 in the race, it'll be much harder for Graham to get to 50%..then the strongest opponent emerges..the others get weeded out..and we have a much better chance of beating him in the run-off. I don't think that anyone who votes for one of Lindsay's opponents will turn around and vote for him in the run off. Cruz pretty much followed that path in Texas last year, and it turned out pretty well.

I saw Mace on with Cavuto a few days ago, and I think it's just a cased of nerves. It was a soft-ball interview, yet you could see that she was mentally trying to remember to stay on script..to introduce herself to the voters. I think she'll get a lot better in the next few weeks...if not, she weeds herself out. Remember, Haley was pretty stiff early on..and just look at her now.

I don't know that much about the candidates...but I wonder if Palin will make an endorsement.

[Noamie]

Glenn Beck interviewed Nancy Mace this morning and she appeared as qualified as Carolyn Kennedy.

She appears to have no idea why she is running to attain one of the most powerful positions in the world. She had no answer to several questions and used talking points to fill space. She has no money, but hopes to win in a run-off - which will require even more money than a regular election. It was more than a disappointment.

Totally unprepared to be a sitting Senator. Maybe not even ready for a House seat.

Her accomplishments are writing a book that was ghost-written for her, getting into Citadel (a year late) by having a father who was a Commandant of the school, and.... that’s about it. Honestly.

I can only hope that Bright has something to offer.

This election won’t be some kind of cake walk.

South Carolina is FULL of people who would be fantastic. I hope they stand up. Quickly.

(Apologies ahead of time to Mace fans)

[lone star annie]

Nancy Mace is not ready for prime time. Her answers on Cavuto were shallow and not succinct enough. Linda would beat her like a drum. This Lee Bright might be the one to take him out.

[cotton1706]

There was an article at the Huffington Post, which can’t be posted on Freerepublic but there were some juicy excerpts:

For a lawmaker who has long raised the ire of some rank-and-file conservatives with his deal-brokering and occasional breeches from Republican orthodoxy, there is a benefit to splitting the Tea Party vote into as many parts as possible.

But this line of reasoning has a potential flaw: South Carolina electoral law stipulates that a candidate must win at least 50 percent of the primary vote to avoid a runoff, and Graham’s chances of reaching that threshold could become even more difficult with additional names on the ballot.

And in a one-on-one runoff , all bets are off for Graham, who would likely have to fight tooth and nail for his political survival.

Former South Carolina GOP Chairman Katon Dawson — who runs a super PAC supporting the already well-funded incumbent — explained in stark terms the challenge ahead: “Fifty percent in a three- or four-person race is a hard number to get to. It just is. My expectation would be a runoff.”

“What leads to heartache in Republican primaries is small turnout, which makes it dicey,” he said.

To understand just how dicey things can get for Republicans branded with the “establishment” label these days, one need only look back to Ted Cruz’s once unlikely election to the Senate last year in Texas.

When incumbent Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchinson decided to retire rather than seek a fourth term, Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst was pegged as the clear favorite to succeed her. And in the crowded primary in which six Republican candidates earned at least 1 percent of the vote, Dewhurst bested Cruz by a hefty 11-point margin (45 percent to 34 percent).

But in their runoff two months later, the Tea Party-backed Cruz easily defeated his opponent (57 percent to 43 percent) to win the nomination on the way to a general election victory in the deep-red state.

It’s a playbook that many hard-right South Carolina Republicans are increasingly confident can be replicated to unseat Graham.

“I think that Lindsey Graham is vulnerable,” said state Sen. Tom Davis, a top figure in the South Carolina GOP’s libertarian wing. “The energy in the Republican Party is moving in a direction opposite from where people like Lindsey and John McCain and some of the more establishment Republicans stand.”

Polling in the still-developing primary race has been scant, but a Winthrop survey showed that Graham’s approval rating among South Carolina Republicans had dipped from 71.6 percent in February to 57.5 percent in April.

[Resettozero]

Nancy Mace is not ready for prime time. Her answers on Cavuto were shallow and not succinct enough. Linda would beat her like a drum. This Lee Bright might be the one to take him out.

You got all that from one Cavuto interview? Annie, you and I disagree on one, two, three, no, all five of your points.

[Resettozero]

You sure you’re not Lindsey?

[Nachum]

Thanks. Good stuff.

[House Atreides]

Nancy Mace is not ready for prime time. Her answers on Cavuto were shallow and not succinct enough. Linda would beat her like a drum. This Lee Bright might be the one to take him out.
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You and I clearly came away with opposite impressions from listening to the same interview. I’ve donated to Nancy Mace’s campaign and I’ll likely donate to Lee Bright’s campaign. The more opposition to Little Lindsey, the better.

I’d suggest WE ALL WITHHOLD OUR ATTACKS ON ANYONE CHALLENGING GRAHAM—save our fire for him. A vote for ANY of his challengers is a vote against Graham. Why are we always tempted to form circular firing squads among the conservative candidates in a primary? It’s self-defeating.

Meanwhile, while Lee Bright is announcing his candidacy, Little Lindsey is in Egypt with McCain asking the Egyptian army to release Muslim Brotherhood prisoners. What a complete piece of excrement those two are.

Let’s defeat Lindsey Graham—focus all our fire on him.

[House Atreides]

You sure you’re not Lindsey?
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LOL -— He’s probably not Lindsey, but he sure is starting to war on Nancy Mace as she challenges Graham. Lindsey will be cheered.