Does Lindsey Graham Want The Tea Party To Die?

The Looking Spoon ^ | 7-2-10 | Jared H. McAndersen

[freekitty]

Yes

[ken21]

of course.

the tea party interrupts the love affair between rino progressives

and democrat leftist progressives.

[AlexW]

RINOS, like Grahamnasty and McStain, are nothing more then neo-Marxist in drag.

[stevem]

Does Lindsey Graham Want The Tea Party To Die?

This has to be a trick question.

[WhatNot]

"Hey' you tea party lackeys, Lindsey's here to take care of business"

[donhunt]

Graham lacks vision. The phony SOB.

[Ev Reeman]

Rather than dying out, I think the tea party movement is in its ascendency. In fact, it seems to be growing with every passing day attracting more and more people who are fed up with big bureaucratic government.

[Mamzelle]

Graham is being uncharacteristically petulant. For all his flaws, including some shows of arrogance toward his SC constitents, I haven't seen him petulant before. Mealy-mouthed, double-dealing, but not petulant. Someone just upset his reality, and hard.

SC sent him a message via the primaries with Bob Inglis. Inglis thought he could get away with anything, too.

John McCain's primary is August 24.

[elcid1970]

This South Carolinian is sick of hearing from Little Lord Flimsey Tinkerbelle, aka the Graham Cracker.

And today on Fox he denies that he’s gay and having an affair with Ricky Martin.

Forgive us, FReepers. Not the one we wanted to succeed Strom Thurmond.

[Shamrock-DW]

Lindsey should suck down a pipe wrench and swin the lenght of the Pee Dee River. May he suck of the scum the tries to associate with.....

[Dr. Sivana]

The last time I checked the Tea Party stood for lower taxation, a modicum of sanity brought to fiscal policy, and Lipton's over Brisk (Dems drink Brisk).

Uh, Brisk is made by Lipton. I think conservatives are more likely to drink Snapple (despite that company's liberal leanings) and Arizona in bottles, and Lipton for brew your own. I dislike the taste of Arizona iced tea, so I go with Diet Raspberry Snapple in glass bottles on the go, and with Lipton made in a Mr. Coffee iced tea maker, unsweetened with lemon, at home.

[mo]

Any body have that bear doing his thing in the woods?

The Oligarchy all hope the Tea Party dries up and blows away...tomorrow. The Tea Party interferes with their narcissistic self absorption.

[Dr. Sivana]

“Ronald Reagan would have a hard time getting elected as a Republican today.”

Balderdash! If Reagan had not been elected, who would have beaten him in any of the election years? In '76, he almost toppled a sitting president (Ford). In '80, he beat the unreconstructed GHW Bush, Connoly, Crane, Howard Baker, John B. Anderson, Bob Dole. Only Crane would be in the same bracket, politically. In 1988, a GHW Bush running as Reagan II beat out Pat Robertson, Jack Kemp, Bob Dole. D'you think any of those guys would have beaten a Reagan? In '92, it was Bush the Elder and Pat Buchanan. In '96, it was Buchanan, Bob Dole, Phil Gramm, Gary Bauer, Alan Keyes. In 2000, George the Younger, John McCain, Gary Bauer, Lamar Alexander, Steve Forbes, Dan Quayle, Lamar Alexander, Alan Keyes.

Basically, the only guys who could be considered to the right of Reagan or close in any way (Buchanan would be all over the place for instance) would be Phil Crane, Buchanan, Keyes, Quayle, Kemp, Robertson And Bauer. Most of that list had never even held elected office. Quayle couldn't withstand the shellacking he took, and was not really helped by the somnabulant Bush the Elder team. Crane and Kemp were only reps, and couldn't break out of single digits in the primaries.

Now, since '88, MANY of these guys promised to be Reagan II, and both Bushes persuaded enough people to get elected on that basis. (McCain and Alexander both tried to make that case).

One reason why Sarah Palin excites so many is that she is a plausible presidential candidate who has the executive experience and can laugh at the press, taking their best shots and forcing them to notice her.

Who is Graham kidding when he says Reagan couldn't be elected today because the Republican Party faithful are so right wing? Huckabee and Romney resemble the John Connolly and Howard Baker of yesteryear more than modern day William F. Buckleys or Paul Laxalts. Pawlenty? Daniels? Hardly fire-eaters.

The problem is that we don't believe the Lindsey Grahams when they try to tell us they will be Reagan II, so they try to compensate by attacking the Republican base who refuse to be betrayed yet again.

[onyx]

One reason why Sarah Palin excites so many is that she is a plausible presidential candidate who has the executive experience and can laugh at the press, taking their best shots and forcing them to notice her.

YOU BETCHA!

[Lorianne]

He’s PRAYING the Tea Party dies out before 2014.

Lindsey Graham = TARP voter.

[hecht]

does he remind anyone else of Tradd St. Croix from the Lord of Discipline?

[GBA]

The GOP is lost and adrift. It needs tea party not just for new voters and new, relevant candidates, but to save it from itself.

[hstacey]

Lindsey is scared because he's lost his conservative compass, if he ever had one to begin with, and he's probably going to be voted out..At least I so hope. He's an embarrassment.

[Brilliant]

Graham will probably flip to the Dem side at some point.