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THE idea of being compelled to vote for Lindsay Graham to save the Senate seat for the GOP is utterly repugnant.
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The timing of a call to vote against Lindsay Graham could not be worse.
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The timing for these perennial calls is always bad.
At least Lou Dobbs in repeating his acutely ill-timed demand that Lindsay Graham be guillotined is not inconsistent. He has been forthright in his opposition to Graham and among the most prominent in pointing out Graham's hypocrisy. He has been doing so for as long as I can remember. Nor is Dobbs' calls to repentance limited to Graham, he has been consistent and consistently right in indicting the phonies of the Republican establishment.
Our problem is that we always find ourselves in this dilemma whether it involves Lindsay Graham, Lisa Murkowski, Susan Collins or (gasp!) Mitt Romney. Worse, the Democrats have mastered the art of party discipline, a survival skill which seems to have eluded us.
Every cycle at the most inopportune and critical time we hear calls to decapitate one or another Rino Senator only to be confronted with the inexorable truth that we simply cannot afford to do so. We squandered the last six years of this senator's term, and thus we have left ourselves no choice.
So we avert our eyes, hold our nose, dutifully cast our vote, bend over and beg for another and another over every six-year cycle.
The Democrats have virtually every institution in America on their side and they know that any maverick senator who strays off the reservation will be ruthlessly terminated as quickly as any slanderer of Mohammed. Consider also, money in the Democrat party is strictly controlled, even more so than Mitch McConnell's largess among Republicans, and discipline by withholding the purse is easier to inflict. Money remains the mother's milk of politics. We should always follow the money.
Now is the time to remind ourselves that the Lindsay Graham's in our world must go but now is not the time to act on that righteous impulse. We have six years for that.
