Posted on 09/28/2018 4:38:44 AM PDT by EyesOfTX
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Maybe in Mexico. Graham deserves praise today, but he hasn’t given a rats’ rear about all of the victims of open-border crimes and the risk of WMD terrorism.
The people that are thankful for Lindsey yesterday are aware of the past. It's petty to dwell on it today (it is legitimate to do at more appropriate times). So try not to have a doofus sense of timing.
Well stated. As you allude to, if Ted Cruz or some other ‘flaming-right’ conservative had given the same speech, it would have been laughed off as your usual partisanship.
Graham, to much of our anger over the years, CANNOT simply be labeled as a ‘partisan’, with his rants being received as “oh, that’s just Lindsey”. Only a handful of Republicans, the RINOs, could have pulled that off. But, by definition, RINOs have at least as many issues with Republicans as they do with Democrats, and wouldn’t dare ‘act partisan’ against Democrats.
But Graham did what needed to be done, from one of the very few Republicans who could do it with credibility.
So if Kavanaugh makes it to the Supreme Court, and if the Republicans hold the Senate in 2018, and if Trump wins again in 2020 and can continue populating our judges, I HEREBY DECLARE that I will support and vote for Graham in the 2024 Presidential Primary, for my kids and grandkids will have a decent country to live in, FOR DECADES, due in huge part to his speech yesterday.
Amen!
I understand your thinking. But who talks about the Wall these days?
When his name comes up, the issue should always dog him in at least a few posts.
What a breath of fresh air. The worst example of Republicans bending over and taking it was the 1996 Vice Presidential debate. I paraphrase Al Gore: “I’m so glad that a decent man like Jack Kemp is running because he is unlike the fascist and sexist like the rest of the Republicans.” This is pretty close to a quote of what Kemp said “I thank my friend for his kind remarks...”
If McCain was still alive then Graham would have supported Ford and the democrats.
Or, to put it more succinctly, the black hat vs white dichotomy is a false description. In actuality, it's really patriots vs globalists, and both sides have the means and ability to employ a wide range of nefarious tactics the news of which never reaches the general public.
To imagine Trump hasn't been fully engaged in this fight 24/7 would be hopelessly naive. I am 100% confident he and his team have not only prepared a complete dossier on the supposed accusers, but have also brought their guns to bear on any supporters who may be wavering. In the case of Graham, one can only image the implied threats (or promised rewards) to come out strongly now that Trump's chief antagonist is ready for his urine bath.
Viewed from a war time prism, all tactics, no matter how nicely presented to news consumers, is actually hand-to-hand scorched earth battle.
“Only because the Republicans questioner Mitchell flubbed everything with her stupid questioning of Ford. Thank God Lindsey Graham interceded or all could have been lost?”
Probably. But even so, I’m thinking this was the plan all along. They would humor the bitch with trivial questions, although they tripped her a couple of times (apparently) anyway, but the goal was not to make it about her, or the treatment of her - for, like it or not, there is a tribal reaction in women when they see something like that. So nothing for TV commercials, as there was with Anita Hill. Instead, they chose to BLAST the Democrats over what they, the Democrats, have done to Kavanaugh.
People know the difference. Here you have this poor woman who went through this horrific, life-damaging, experience due to the (white) MAN who was about to end up on the Supreme Court.* But for the Senators and their staffs, MUCH DIFFERENT. They are supposed to be the BEST, and never act like spoiled children...but they did, and Lindsey CALLED THEM OUT for it. While many may want to say that Republicans were too hard on this brave bitch, no one can credibly say that Republicans were too hard on the Democrats in the Senate...they’re grownups, it’s part of the game. Sorry, Leftists.
*The fact that she had the MEANS (a willing media and Democrat Party), the MOTIVE (she hates men, particularly conservative men), and the OPPORTUNITY (she had some potential linkage to Kavanaugh’s past) doesn’t mean anything, nothing at all.
“Also...the Democrats better hope Judge Kavanaugh is actually a fair and honest man (as they’ve claimed he isn’t)...because he’ll now be in a position to open a yuge can of whup-ass revenge on them.”
I’ve always wondered the same with Thomas, as it is very rare to have a black be as hard-core and reliably conservative as Thomas is (and that’s sad, but true).
Perhaps Thomas was more open to both sides...until the Democrats dragged out Anita Hill - and now Thomas gets his (well-deserved) REVENGE every time a case is reviewed by the Court.
So we’ll see with Kavanaugh. A bit of REVENGE (say 35 years of it) would be an appropriate response to what the Democrats have done to him.
Agreed. If they had of attacked Ford it would have gotten them nothing extra than what most already knew. It would have made her the star. What they got was a star in Kavanaugh. By the time he was finished all eyes were on the Dems who behaved so badly. Then Graham drove the stake into their evil hearts. I was expecting the old witch to have a heart attack right on the bench. Is that wrong of me? Not sure I care at this stage!888
For the FIRST time I cheered Lindsey Graham! He has finally become the senator that South Carolina deserved all along. It makes me wonder if the dead RINO Juan McLame had some blackmail material he held over Lindsey's head.
There’s also the matter of the undercover videos of the abortion industry selling aborted baby parts, videos that have been sealed by a court at the request of such entities as Planned Parenthood.
Got that right!
Being pro-abortion is one nasty shock after another.
Every single position the Dems take opposes something in the bible!
Good article, but the Dems are not "silly" or "disengenuous". They are lying, evil fiends in meat suits. And Graham was undoubtedly blackmailed and/or threatened by McStain. He was freed when McStain finally exited stage left.
Kudos to Graham.
But remember, Kavanaugh came up in the Bush administration, ran the Vince Foster investigation and was on the Ken Starr special prosecutor team.
Graham has a political and social connection with Kavanaugh — Feinstein was attacking one of his own.
No such defense would have been afforded by Graham to Roy Moore.
That said, Kudos to Graham for standing up for one of his own — he wouldn’t have done it two years ago.
Grahamnesty just came through again in this morning’s judiciary committee. Looks like he must have walked Flake across the bridge last night. I am threatening to forgive Lindsay for joint the McCain cult.
With McCain gone, Linda Graham needs a new alpha male to drool over. Disturbing as that may be, the fact that Linda's new alpha male of choice is apparently President Trump may work to our political advantage. Who knows? She may even adopt a conservative line on illegal immigration down the road.
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