Posted on 06/01/2015 5:55:58 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Lindsey Graham is aiming to buck 130 years of tradition.
American voters haven't elected an unmarried president since 1885, the same year the Washington Monument was dedicated on the National Mall and the Statue of Liberty arrived in New York.
Graham is barely registering in the polls. But if he were to win the White House, he would join an elite club that includes just two previous presidents unmarried at the time of their election. James Buchanan, who preceded Abraham Lincoln's presidency, never married. Grover Cleveland won election as a bachelor, but married a woman while he was in office who was under his care and 27 years his junior.
While there was less emphasis in the media about the private lives of politicians during that era, the absence of women in their lives did not go unnoticed. Buchanan was rumored to have a romantic relationship with a male senator and Cleveland faced accusations that he secretly fathered a child he was supporting financially.
"The President is a bachelor, and bachelors, time out of mind, have been not only the greatest sinners of the race, but the most susceptible of fascination," a cheeky New York Times reporter wrote in an 1858 article about Buchanan. "Cain was a bachelor and so was Judas Iscariot."(continued)
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I think I had the same comment.
If elected (most doubtful), Linda would be the first female president.
If he was 100 percent conservative then I would. Heck Linda isn’t even 50 percent conservative so nope won’t vote for him, single or married.
A fake conservative and a fake man
Come on, “Bachelor” is so 1950’s. This is 2014 we have other names for people of his...persuasion...now.
He is just running to impress Caitlin Jenner ....
He won’t be single for long....
I heard he was going to marry ,Caitlyn Jenner....
He should run next cycle, against Cory Booker, in the all-closet contest.
If Graham becomes President will McCain leave his wife to become First Lady?
So two terms of a homosexual leftist isn’t enough to ruin the country? Is he running for Obama’s third term?
Linda would become the first man to wed another man while in office.
I don’t care that he is single..
I care that he is not conservative.
I won’t vote for him for that reason.
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Was it something about him being a flaming qu##r?
In 1950 the term ‘confirmed bachelor’ meant one thing.
If Ted Cruz was a bachelor I would still vote for him.
I will never ever vote for John McCains bitch.
He will be outted via RAT operatives in the fall - at which time he may ultimately wake up and realize they were never his friends to begin with.
In 2015 it still means that one thing.
Will anyone vote for a mini-McCain in 2016?
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