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Lindsey Graham shines at undercard debate
CNN Politics ^ | September 16, 2015 | Manu Raju

Posted on 09/16/2015 6:09:41 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

The Lindsey Graham show turned up in Simi Valley, California, during tonight's CNN Republican presidential debate.

After a flat performance in August at the first GOP debate, the South Carolina senator lit up the crowd at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library during CNN's undercard debate, lashing his opponents with sharp barbs and dropping zingers that brought roars of approval.

"That's the first thing I'm going to do as president: We're going to drink more," he said.

Graham also trashed Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton in eyebrow-raising terms.

"Where the hell were you" during the Benghazi, Libya, attacks, Graham fumed when he was asked about his past praise for Clinton.

The performance quickly earned Graham praise on social media, in much the same way Carly Fiorina impressed the audience during last month's debate.

He was no more charitable with some of his Republican rivals, saying he was "sick of hearing" fellow Sen. Ted Cruz calling for defunding Obamacare while President Barack Obama was in office and certain to veto such legislation.

He ridiculed Donald Trump as "a cartoon character" who gets his foreign policy from the Cartoon Network....

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


TOPICS: South Carolina; Campaign News; Parties
KEYWORDS: 2016election; 2016electionbias; boycotttimewarner; cruz; debates; dnctalkingpoints; election2016; lindseygraham; southcarolina; tedcruz; timelies
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Not from the Onion.
1 posted on 09/16/2015 6:09:41 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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He was no more charitable with some of his Republican rivals, saying he was “sick of hearing” fellow Sen. Ted Cruz calling for defunding Obamacare while President Barack Obama was in office and certain to veto such legislation.

So drop your pants and take it from barry and shut the


2 posted on 09/16/2015 6:14:27 PM PDT by longfellow (Bill Maher, the 21st hijacker.)
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To: longfellow
He lost

Jindal won easy attacking GOP Congress as Losers

3 posted on 09/16/2015 6:17:04 PM PDT by scooby321
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Graham Stunk up the place!


4 posted on 09/16/2015 6:17:06 PM PDT by Samurai_Jack (War is cruelty, there is no use trying to reform it; the crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.


5 posted on 09/16/2015 6:17:47 PM PDT by Arm_Bears (Biology is biology. Everything else is imagination.)
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"Not from the Onion."

Are you sure?

I'd have wondered if it was from Suck.com but that one's been dead for ages...

Old Lissey's so far from the ballpark and has no clue. Like, just go away. Dude.

6 posted on 09/16/2015 6:18:00 PM PDT by W. (I piss on your stupid, violence-inducing koran!)
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He will never be President and shouldn’t be a Senator.


7 posted on 09/16/2015 6:18:30 PM PDT by wetgundog ("Extremism in the Defense of Liberty is No Vice" -AuH2O)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Lunacy Graham...


8 posted on 09/16/2015 6:19:26 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: W.

If he was shining I’m sure he took out his compact and powdered his nose.


9 posted on 09/16/2015 6:19:52 PM PDT by JMS
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
What a maroon, this changes nothing. Pansy will never pull more than 2% in the polls.

Go back to your tax payer-funded Senate Country Club, Linda. Enjoy it while you can, 'cause change is in the wind. There's a Trump-nado blowing into town.

10 posted on 09/16/2015 6:21:54 PM PDT by liberty_lvr (The world is aflame and our pResident is responsible for it.)
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Well if she shined, maybe she should have used a bit more powder...


11 posted on 09/16/2015 6:22:37 PM PDT by markomalley (Nothing emboldens the wicked so greatly as the lack of courage on the part of the good -- Leo XIII)
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LOL

The guy sits there and blames everyone else for Obama crap he supported.


12 posted on 09/16/2015 6:26:34 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.)
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...Graham shines at undercard debate

Not tough to do when you're shadowboxing.

Being #1 in the also-ran debate is like being the tallest midget in the room.

Although Jindal did make one point that impressed me, but I can't recall what it was. So, never mind.

13 posted on 09/16/2015 6:27:43 PM PDT by Semper Mark (Vlad Tepes was a piker.)
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To: scooby321

Jindel had nothing to lose and lynn had nothing.


14 posted on 09/16/2015 6:28:55 PM PDT by longfellow (Bill Maher, the 21st hijacker.)
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To: JMS

[S]he’s trying too hard, isn’t [s]he? She-eesh!


15 posted on 09/16/2015 6:29:07 PM PDT by W. (I piss on your stupid, violence-inducing koran!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I watched for about 5 minutes. He came across as a whiny little girl.


16 posted on 09/16/2015 6:29:55 PM PDT by Gamecock (Many Atheists: "There is no God and I hate Him!")
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To: markomalley

Meanwhile Jeb is being fitted for a chair at the kid’s table.


17 posted on 09/16/2015 6:29:56 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

CNN said that, hunh? Then we know it isn’t true. At all. In any way.


18 posted on 09/16/2015 6:31:13 PM PDT by righttackle44 (Take scalps. Leave the bodies as a warning.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Graham is shining shoes now?


19 posted on 09/16/2015 6:33:20 PM PDT by rrrod (Just an old guy with a gun in his pocket.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Another kids’ table loser the media is trying to make a thing. Just like Fiorina from the previous debate.


20 posted on 09/16/2015 6:34:52 PM PDT by ScottWalkerForPresident2016
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