Posted on 02/26/2016 2:12:38 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
South Carolina Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham thinks his party has gone "bats---" crazy, and joked Thursday that it's possible to get away with murdering Ted Cruz if it happened in the Senate.
"If you killed Ted Cruz on the floor of the Senate, and the trial was in the Senate, nobody would convict you," the former presidential candidate said at the Washington Press Club Foundation's 72nd Congressional Dinner, referencing the Texas senator's unpopular reputation on Capitol Hill.
CNN has reached out to Cruz's presidential campaign for comment.
While Graham teased Democrats and other politicians in the room -- at one point turning to House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and asking her not leave to leave for the sake of his own party -- he focused his roast on the 2016 election and the GOP field, in which he formerly participated.
"The most dishonest person in America is a woman who is about to be president, that can get me. My party's gone bats--- crazy," the Palmetto State Republican told the crowd....
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That’s just despicable.
I thank Miss Lindsey for explaining why Cruz should be president.
Kanye Graham!
Ted's been shootin' with Phil Robetson, so he's up for it. How about you , you f'n pansy.
What the hell is going on here? I don’t care if he is a Senator, this is a threat to Mr. Cruz, no matter how you slice it.
Does Cruz have SS protection? How about the boys at Goldman coming to the aid of the spouse of one of their senior officers?
BS. If any of us said this we’d be in the slammer so fast our head would spin.
Graham has become completely unhinged.
His jokes about killing Cruz on the Senate floor are not only whacko...they are most probably illegal.
I don’t support or respect the Ted Cruz we have seen since Iowa. But Graham should be arrested for that disgusting comment. Discussing murdering anyone is dangerous and purely sick and not a joke.
Basically, you just do what the media tells you.
>>That’s just despicable.<<
He is making an important point: The Senate has gone extra-legal and Senate republicans hate Cruz (because he is everything they are not) that they would applaud his killing.
And he is right.
South Carolina, do your duty.
I know hate’s a sin, but so is lying so why compound them. So might as well just come clean...I hate Lindsey Graham with every fiber of my being.
That Flimsey Grahamnesty, he’s such a cut-up.
Some of his beloved MS-13 could show him what that really means
“Discussing murdering anyone is dangerous and purely sick and not a joke.”
Agreed. Especially when you say it to the media.
Better keep his day job - if he can.
He ain’t no Jenny Youngman.
The little weasel from SC is batsh*t crazy!
I think for myself but apparently you agree with the horrible statement of Graham. Is it because he supports Rubio now that you turn on Cruz?
I was an HR vice president of a mortgage company, but they wouldn’t send people to protect me. His wife had a good job at a large financial firm, but that’s it.
I don't support Cruz, but I agree, better Rubio than Trump.
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