Posted on 01/24/2014 12:08:50 PM PST by cotton1706
As the battle between the grassroots and the establishment sides of the Republican Party rages on, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) is taking a very public stance on the side of the establishment.
“I’m going to embrace being a Chamber of Commerce Republican,” Graham said in an interview with The Greenville News in Greenville, SC this week.
The Chamber of Commerce represents the biggest group fighting on behalf of the GOP establishment in its ongoing battle with the Tea Party movement, becoming deeply involved in Republican primary elections and pushing comprehensive immigration reform on Capitol Hill.
“There’s a fight in our party about the sort of isolationism on foreign policy, libertarianism on domestic policy,” Graham said. “I’m a traditional conservative Chamber of Commerce Republican."
"I like the Chamber of Commerce. I like the idea that people compete against each other," he explained. "During the day, you come together for the common good. You’ll have insurance companies that compete against each other, you’ll have lawyers and bankers who basically fight for market share at the end of the day. But through the Chamber they try to come together and build up the community."
"That’s the way I think," Graham claimed. "When it comes to problem solving, Washington is broken and I think the solution is not more people yelling but somebody willing to roll up their sleeves and willing to fix problems like you have to do at the Chamber level and you have to do in the private sector.”
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Lindsey also embraces being Chuck Schumer’s towel boy.
The fact that this @$$¶0¦£ is not only getting more than 5% of the vote in the Republican primary, but will probably win shows how America is doomed.
If we can’t even count on Republicans in a red state like South Carolina to pay attention and do the right thing, we as a nation are just too stupid to live
Supports Amnesty, ObamaCare, Communist China, EU, UN....everything what the Chamber of Commerce supports
Personally, if I was embraced by Lindsey, I’d call the cops.
Heh. Log Cabin Chamber Republican.
I’m not sure I want to know what Lindsey ‘embraces’.
I guess she wants to be their Chamber maid.
...........Chamber “pot.”
I always thought Lindsey was a log cabin R?
“There’s a fight in our party about the sort of isolationism on foreign policy, libertarianism on domestic policy,” Graham said. “I’m a traditional conservative Chamber of Commerce Republican.”
So pretty much a checked pants wearing beer-o-crap.
Ugh. Graham was a cheesy small town ambulance chaser and now he’s a cheesy big city ambulance chaser
DC broken by anti-American politicians like LG will in no way ever get fixed by those same politicians. You're done you little lying POS RINO twerp.
I am glad to see LindaG publicly take the side of the gopE rather than engage in his every-6th-year pretense to be a conservative aligned with the Tea Party.
Bring it on. Go Lee Bright!
He is also an AARP Republican.
It was Stalin.
Right!!..thanks..
Little Lindsey Grahamnesty says “I’m bought and paid for, and I’M PROUD OF IT”.
Michelle Malkin’s article re Chamber of Commerce is timed perfectly. Just read it today
His opponent, not so much. Lee Bright’s senate campaign giving away AR-15. http://www.foxcarolina.com/story/24538341/state-sen-lee-brights-campaign-giving-away-ar-15
Crony is Linda.
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