Ravenel was
A)A Paulbot
B)Guilty of the charge
Thank God he didn’t win, would have sucked when Obama had a sitting GOP Senator arrested for coke in 2009. Coke heads aren’t first tier anything other than losers. Paulbots aren’t first tier anything either.
I would hardly say Graham under-performed in the 2014 general election, he had stronger third party opposition than Scott, Ravenel and a Libertarian Party candidate. Scott’s only third party foe was a centrist who probably took more from the rat.
Graham’s rat got 38.78% on the rat and working families party ballot lines
Scott’s got 37.09%
Anyway as I said at time, his 2014 opponents sucked. The top guy was a Neo-Confederate State Senator with personal financial problems. Even if he had forced a runoff or if he was the only candidate, Graham would have kicked his butt one on one. That dude was never gonna win, never.
Graham is many things, a weak candidate is not one of them. He is never gonna lose to a cokehead, a fringe candidate, a nobody, or a democrat.
I think one of the House delegation would probably beat him (other than Sanford), we gotta convince one or a statewide elected official who is not on coke, to run.
I predict Graham will suck up to the President so the White House will dissuade a challenge in 2020 and I’m afraid that might work.
Actually, I recall that Ravenel was supporting Giuliani in 2008. Despite our numerous problems with Rudy, I don’t believe for a moment he’d have played Ringer to Zero as McQueeg and Willard did. He didn’t hesitate to go nuclear on the grossly incompetent Dinkins in their 1993 rematch and knock him out.
Coke or not, I’d have voted for Ravenel over the creepy closet-job Graham any day of the week.
I also seriously disagree with Graham not being weak, because he is, and those low numbers prove that. He has no excuse for getting less than 60% of the vote. 2014 was his worst performance to date, a click below his first run in 2002, and this against mostly desultory Dem opposition. That he could barely clear 55% against a badly divided field in the primary shows that a ficus plant could beat him one-on-one with better funding and support. He is toxic with the base.