Lindsey Graham can’t hide from his cheerleading for disastrous war in Libya and arming terrorists in Syria.
Posted on 04/10/2015 9:33:42 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham may still be weighing whether to run for president, but he already has a strategy — distancing himself from fellow senator Rand Paul.
In TV appearances, on the campaign trail, and even in private fundraisers, Graham, an Air Force reservist and one of his party’s most prominent defense hawks, has gone after Paul repeatedly and by name, casting him as weak-kneed and unwilling to protect the country from aggressors.
In interviews, Graham aides said he was laying out a plan to position himself as Paul’s foil, and will repeatedly contrast his foreign policy positions to that of the Kentucky senator’s more isolationist views, especially in debates. They believe that going after Paul — or “putting wood on him,” in the words of one aide — drives attention to Graham and, at a time of rising concern about threats from abroad, helps establish himself as the hawk of the Republican field.
“It’s nothing personal, not at all,” Graham insisted in a telephone interview on Wednesday, one day before Paul stumped in his home state, pointing out that the two had once played golf together. “My problem with Rand Paul is foreign policy. He’s a libertarian and I come from a more traditional Republican perspective.”
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So sayeth John McCain’s Handmaiden. And to think, just a few weeks ago, Lindsay wanted to be taken seriously as a potential nominee.
Lindsey, give it up. No strategy will make you POTUS.
Lindsey Graham can’t hide from his cheerleading for disastrous war in Libya and arming terrorists in Syria.
No, no, Lindsey, you mustn’t take down Rand Paul. Stay faithful to your old mate, John McCain
Lindsey Graham can’t hide from his cheerleading for disastrous war in Libya and arming terrorists in Syria.
Well said!
Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dummer
“Taking down” the conservative candidates will be Rquirement #1 for the Republican Party as well as for the parent company, the Democrat Party.
What’s he going to do? Slap him?
RE: No, no, Lindsey, you mustn’t take down Rand Paul. Stay faithful to your old mate, John McCain
Talk show host,lawyer and author, Mark Levin calls Linsday Graham and John McCain SAME-SEX SENATORS. HEH HEH.
-PJ
“Lindsey Graham’s strategy: Take down Rand Paul”
Well, if that headline is true, we now know what Lindsay Graham’s problem is: he is living in the Twilight Zone.
Not that I am a Rand Paul fan.
LOL! Love it!
That is what Rand gets for playing footsies with McBackstabber.
Let’s lock Rand and Lindsay in a dark basement and give them each a flamethrower and a box of Willie Pete grenades.
Rand is going to be a force to reckon with and the R Party seems to suspect that, don’t they?
Linda is running interference for Bush. Probably wants to be the bloodiest neocon hawk VP sharing a Bush ticket. Graham is McCain’s baby chicklit and John McCain hates Rand Paul.
He has attitude. McCain thought he had cornered that market.
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