Posted on 06/18/2007 8:05:54 AM PDT by MplsSteve
Lee Rogers, chairman of the Republican Party in Anderson County, S.C., was at the beach last week when his cell phone rang.
It was an urgent call from one of Rogers' GOP activists.
"He asked me what I was going to do to find somebody to run against Lindsey Graham (next year)," Rogers said. "I explained to the gentleman that's not something I can put together as a single county chairman. That's got to happen with the people."
It could be happening.
Graham, nearing the end of his first Senate term, has taken plenty of heat before, but perhaps never like this.
Thanks to his high-profile help in crafting an immigration reform bill that has stalled in the Senate, constituents call and leave screaming messages on his office voicemail.
"NO AMNESTY! NO AMNESTY!" one repeat caller yells for a minute or more in angry overnight messages that greet his aides in the morning.
Graham's staff estimates that his Senate offices have received about 3,000 letters, phone calls, e-mails and faxes about immigration in the last month, most of them critical of him.
Talk radio hosts within and beyond South Carolina deride Graham as a Ted Kennedy toady.
Rush Limbaugh has taken to calling him "Lindsey Grah-amnesty."
Bloggers challenge his manhood, assault his patriotism, mock his intellect.
(Excerpt) Read more at startribune.com ...
I can't say for sure but it doesn't appear as though anyone will be challenging Lindsay Graham in next year's primary. I would love to see it happen though.
Comments or opinions - anyone?
Rather than listen to their constituents, these arrogant Senators need to be sent home and replaced. I won’t vote for a single candidate who endorses the amnesty program, no matter how they try to sugar-coat it.
Calls to the South Carolina Weeping Pansy’s office are in vain. He has already said he will vote for this bill REGARDLESS OF ITS CONTENTS AND CONSEQUENCES. The Republicans in his state should move forward with finding an electable replacement and not waste their efforts trying to change his mind. Graham has already sold them out and he DOESN’T CARE. He is giddy from his experience of rubbing shoulders with Ted Kennedy, who has played him for a prize sucker. He thinks this will all be forgotten after passage of the bill, and that he won’t be held accountable because voters have short memories. I urge South Carolinians to surprise him.
It will be an absolute crime if this clown is unopposed in the primary.
A South Carolinan has to step up and go for it. The position is theirs for the taking.
My husband and I discussed this over the weekend. The SC GOP party better start looking to someone and funding him/her fast to challenge Goober. Time is awastin’! I hope Ravenel(State Treasurer), Gov. Sanford or Rep. Gresham Barrett challenge him. Someone has got to step up to the plate ASAP.
This is sad and cynical and what is wrong with the GOP. No one has to defeat Graham, he is doing a fine job of that himself. Graham is counting on the money in his warchest scaring off primary challengers. I believe a good decent candidate running a common sense campaign can unseat Graham with a lot less money. Graham is there for the taking, the anger against Graham is there, a bold candidate will take this opportunity and run with it.
The real amnesty the pols are after is for themselves for refusing to enforce our laws.
No free passes for them. They must be held accountable.
Graham obviously isn’t planning to run for re-election.
Does anyone know when the filing deadline is in South Carolina?
“He is giddy from his experience of rubbing shoulders with Ted Kennedy, who has played him for a prize sucker.”
Goober Grahamesty is really enjoying playing the part of Fat Ted’s pool-boy/love-slave, isn’t he? Makes you wonder what exactly he is getting out of it. Sickening.
Wow, I thought 80% of Americans were mad about illegals?
Are there no Conservatives in SC?
What about some angry Freepers from SC?
I see them posting all the time for impeachment and death for the Pres and Graham.
Weird, but there is still time I guess, but they should not take too long to decide.
Because of Graham’s national prominence on the illegal amnesty issue, I believe any primary opponent could raise a good portion of the necessary campaign funds nationally if done intelligently, focusing on the illegal immigration issue.
Its probably time for opponents, defined as real Americans who represent the people, to step up, make themselves known. They could probably win with very little money. Anything to get rid of the weak sister traitors that are abusing the people of this country right now.
If you oppose this creep Graham, step up, you can win!
Unless he/she is term limited, why would a governor run for Senate?
No snark here, I just can’t see what’s in it for a governor to take a demotion.
I don’t for ONE MINUTE believe he has only gotten a total of 3000 e-mails, letters, and phone calls. I’ve sent him 3 e-mails already, and I’m not even IN his state.
Yes, but I prefer BorderGate. It's catchier.
Unfortunately given the system- a Democrat may be elected. He’s going down. If the GOP gives him cover. They go down also period. I would vote for the Democrat before I would vote for this nincompoop. You can bet the Democrat will be pro-life and anti-amnesty. The Republicans will see where reaching across the aisle gets them in 2008. Notice the Democrats who support this bill are all in really safe districts-take for example Ted Kennedy.
Either that or he has taken or been promised enough of a payoff to not care if he wins reelection. If his actions do not indicate he has been bought and paid for, then he sure is a misunderstood soul.
he has removed his fax numbers from his site..
contact info for all senators and reps here
http://www.vote-smart.org/official_congress.php?dist=bio.php
Lindsey Graham “Senator”
Washington, D.C. Address
290 Russell Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
Phone: 202-224-5972
Fax: 202-224-3808
District Address - Greenville
101 East Washington Street, Suite 220
Greenville, SC 29601
Phone: 864-250-1417
Fax: 864-250-4322
District Address - Mount Pleasant
530 Johnnie Dodds Boulevard, Suite 202
Mount Pleasant, SC 29464
Phone: 843-849-3887
Fax: 843-971-3669
District Address - Rock Hill
140 East Main Street, Suite 110
Rock Hill, SC 29730
Phone: 803-366-2828
Fax: 803-366-5353
District Address - Seneca
135 Eagles Nest Drive, Suite B
Seneca, SC 29678
Phone: 864-888-3330
Fax:
District Address - Columbia
508 Hampton Street, Suite 202
Columbia, SC 29201
Phone: 803-933-0112
Fax: 803-933-0957
District Address - Florence
McMillan Federal Building
401 West Evans Street, Suite 226B
Florence, SC 29501
Phone: 843-669-1505
Fax: 843-669-9015
Seems like a pretty decent price on the 2005 Honda CR-V EX!
“Bloggers challenge his manhood, assault his patriotism, mock his intellect.”.....Poor baby!....comes with the territory when your in politics....EVERYTHING is far game when you tangle with the base!
Wrong state for me to run. :-)
Just do a Hillary and move to SC. I would vote for you as long as I moved there too.
Now we need someone here to get rid of Richard Lugar next election. He is a sly secretive entrenched traitor.
No need to move there, just go down on election day and say, "Buenas Dias! Where do I vote?" But get a good tan first.
There's got to be some trace of manhood there to challenge, in order to do so.
ping
don’t bet on that.
and don’t bet the stupids won’t reelect his sorry ass.
the good folks of S.C. should stone his sorry butt in the town square as should we all any politician who votes for this con job.
Im one of those 3000 who called-at least three times..
Make the SOB pay for what he’s doing to this country.
There have been previous SC Repubs who think they are invulnerable. They get replaced by moderate Democrats. The state is more populist than conservative, and they won't vote like neocon zombies.
Maybe Sanford has higher aspirations, maybe not. But the consensus in the Upstate, from what I hear, is that he would make a better senator than governor. I was hoping Inglis would make a run against Goober, but he shot himself in the foot with his vote against the troop surge when he voted “his conscious” and not his constituency. I wish DeMint could clone himself.
Huh? So...the party has nothing to do with potential candidates? I think Rogers is saying "Not gonna do it."
As an aside, I understand there's a county DA that's looking for a job there...(ducking)
I think you may be confusing SC with NC. SC is like NC, except without the sense of urgency.
(ducking again)
Bttt!
Just say NO to Illegal Alien Amnesty!! Keep calling!! It’s NOT OVER!!
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I was about to hurl as I read this article. Lindsey Graham is without a doubt the most arrogant politician I've ever seen. He just drips with arrogance. The first real knowledge I had of him was when he joined the unholy alliance of the now despised, "14 traitors." They seemed to forget that we have a total of 100 Senators who are all elected to serve Americans. In their arrogance they think they can solve the problems that are facing Americans, when in fact, they are the cause of many of our problems. When we elect Republicans, we expect them to be Conservative, which, btw is how Graham's website describes him. Now, I ask you, have you seen anything conservative that he's done so far?
I fully intend to contribute money to the campaign of the Republican who runs against him in the primary. I live in NM, and that's just how mad he's made me. I want him kicked out of office. I read about how much money he already has in his campaign, and it was disheartening, until I got to the second page, and then it hit me who could fund a campaign against him. Who could/would contribute big from all across America to defeat that sorry traitor? The AMA! I'm getting ready to send them some information that I think will get them to help defeat him. I worked hard for these guys to get legislation passed for them and until just now, I didn't know why it wasn't passed. This is what I read:
A military lawyer, Graham was one of three Senate Republicans who helped block Congress last year from capping medical malpractice lawsuits.
He is part of the reason that medical malpractice caps were defeated. Because of him and his efforts, doctors are closing their doors because they can't afford the medical malpractice insurance. THAT affects every one of us. Not just when they stop practicing medicine, but these huge settlements drive the cost of our medical insurance up, and increases fees that the doctors have to charge us. WE are getting shafted because of what he so proudly boasts he's responsible for, just like the doctors are. I know the docs are getting it worse with insurance premiums, but we definitely pay for it too. I'm sending this article to the doctors that I've been working with and asking them to join us in taking Graham down. I bet there's a lot of docs in SC who will contribute, and I KNOW there are docs across America who have suffered because of him that will probably join in too. It's to their benefit to get rid of lawyer politicians like him.
Lindsey, every time I see you on TV I think: Man, I bet this guy buys a lot of anal lube!
This guy is a John Edwards fast-talking arrogant lawyer pretty boy with an R next to his name.
Egads, dump him ASAP.
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