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.
He endorsed Paul in 2012, I think because he was upset coke wasn’t legal.
Senator Ravenel being arrested by Obama at the GOP low point in 2009 would have been a devastating scandal. I never watched his stupid reality show but it sounds like he’s White trash.
As for 2014, a ficus plant would have been a much stronger candidate than a Neo-Confederate State Senator with financial problems, Graham would have easily made the race about his opponent.
And if Scott had Ravenel and a Libertarian run against him he wouldn’t have cleared 60% either. Weak Republicans see rats overperform against then, Graham’s rat only slightly out performed Scott because of the extra ballot line, and actually underperformed her on the rat line.