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Lindsey Graham interviewed on Mike Gallagher
Mike Gallagher Show - partial transcript ^ | 05/24/2005 | self

Posted on 05/24/2005 11:18:01 AM PDT by AFPhys

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To: AFPhys

Unfortunately, this confirms what I feared, which was that we NEVER had a solid 51 votes. I will be calling DeWhine's office, and telling him that I expect action on these, and while I can't vote against him this year, I can work like hell to derail his son's congressional seat.


41 posted on 05/24/2005 11:55:49 AM PDT by LS (CNN is the Amtrak of news)
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To: sawdust

Your tagline, I love that quote and the context of it.


42 posted on 05/24/2005 11:56:20 AM PDT by eyespysomething (Peace - that brief moment in history where everyone stands around reloading.)
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To: LS
I will be calling DeWhine's office, and telling him that I expect action on these, and while I can't vote against him this year, I can work like hell to derail his son's congressional seat.

http://www.gobrinkman.com/ for those of like mind, State rep. Tom Brinkman for Congress running against Pat DeWine in the primary

43 posted on 05/24/2005 11:59:10 AM PDT by JohnnyZ (“When you’re hungry, you eat; when you’re a frog, you leap; if you’re scared, get a dog.”)
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To: Clemenza; hobbes1

Steeped in gayness.


44 posted on 05/24/2005 12:00:18 PM PDT by NeoCaveman (Got no Spine? Not one damn dime)
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To: cogitator

The problem is that he took on all kinds of things, like vote counts, that WERE NOT HIS JOB. Every senator does not know the overall picture and the fact that he did not know that he could equally cause damage to the voters, his party, and the remaining 48 senators makes me wonder how he ever got to be a senator in the first place. I hope he is as naive as he sounds and is not just trying to play it both ways. No matter, he is still a baby playing with wolves.


45 posted on 05/24/2005 12:02:07 PM PDT by Bush 100 Percent
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To: AFPhys
Well at least Reid acknowledges his base, and respects it enough to represent them, even when the are kooks.

Lindsey's base just gave him the majority on serious, important and reasonable issues of our time.

And he treats us like kooks.
46 posted on 05/24/2005 12:03:10 PM PDT by roses of sharon
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To: AFPhys

Graham: '..."exceptional circumstances" - and that's not a wide open phrase...'


Good grief, what a tool.


47 posted on 05/24/2005 12:04:55 PM PDT by Petronski (A champion of dance, my moves will put you in a trance, and I never leave the disco alone.)
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To: ken5050

I don't have a transcript from 5/24 yet. Is that what you are looking for?


48 posted on 05/24/2005 12:07:47 PM PDT by Cboldt
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To: ken5050
I don't have a transcript from 5/24 yet. Is that what you are looking for?

http://thomas.loc.gov/r109/r109.html <- Congressional Record by day

49 posted on 05/24/2005 12:09:42 PM PDT by Cboldt
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To: Petronski; dubyaismypresident
Good grief, what a tool.

What Graham Says everytime MCCain sidles up behind him...

Ill take Potent Potables for 400 Alex...

50 posted on 05/24/2005 12:10:08 PM PDT by hobbes1 (Hobbes1TheOmniscient® "I know everything so you dont have to...." ;)
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To: The Ghost of FReepers Past

If the senate ":leadership" has any B@LLS they will strip mcpain of his chairmanship!

Until then SCREW THE REPUBLICAN LEADERS and WITHHOLD ALL $$$ FROM THE rnc.


51 posted on 05/24/2005 12:13:58 PM PDT by bigj00
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To: cyncooper

Pingety-ping.


52 posted on 05/24/2005 12:20:48 PM PDT by EllaMinnow
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To: AFPhys
I am not Lindsey Graham's constituent, but as my screen name indicates, I'm in the neighborhood. In fact, I can literally see South Carolina (or, as we sometimes refer to it, Baja Carolina) from my land. So, I've followed his career with interest -- and, increasingly, disappointment. His explanation of his actions on the current issue fails to impress.

Of the seven GOP compromisers, Graham is the one who surprises me most. And, as it happens, he is the most vulnerable of the seven to being taken out by a conservative.

The true RINOs in the gang of seven (Collins, Snowe, and Chafee) probably enhanced their future reelection prospects in their red states, and in any event are most unlikely to be toppled in a GOP primary.

McCain undertook no political risk in organizing the compromise; it's impossible for conservatives to dislike him more than they already did.

Warner will be 81 when reelection time rolls around in 2008; I have to believe he'll hang it up, but of course conservative alternatives should be cultivated.

DeWine is a possible target for angry conservatives, and could feel the heat in a 2006 primary. But Ohio is very marginal state, and we run the risk of opening the door to a Dem gain if DeWine survives a tough primary. That's a risk I'd be willing to take, by the way.

But the biggest opportunity, in my judgment, to make a real change is in South Carolina. What follows is pretty much the same thing I said on another thread, so if you read it before, forgive the repeat, but I think it's relevant here.

If ever anyone needed a primary opponent, surely it is Lindsey Graham. He's not a true RINO in the Collins/Snowe/Chafee sense, but he has been moving in that direction. Conservatives have a great opportunity to go after him in 2008, for three reasons.

First, Senators are most vulnerable to defeat in their first reelection bid; after two terms, they tend to get entrenched. Graham won his seat in 2002, and will be in his first Senate reelection contest.

Second, South Carolina is now safely Republican (absent a cataclysmic national GOP meltdown); so the winner of a 2008 primary would be an overwhelming favorite in the general, especially in a presidential year. No worries about losing the seat to the Dems as a result of a tough primary fight.

And third, there's a deep pool of electable conservative talent in South Carolina: current Governor Mark Sanford, who will probably be reelected in 2006; Congressman Bob Inglis from the Greenville-Spartanburg area, who gave Hollings a good run in 1998; Charleston real estate developer Thomas Ravenel, who narrowly lost the 2004 senate primary to Jim DeMint; and many others.

To me, Lindsey Graham should be the focal point for conservatives' efforts to build a long-term Senate majority. Sure, there are plenty of Senators who are far more odious than Lindsey Graham; unfortunately, most are entrenched, or likely to be replaced with equally unsatisfactory public servants. Graham, however, increasingly finds himself at odds with a South Carolina electorate which has moved rapidly to the right in recent years. He presents the #1 target of opportunity. Let's go get him, y'all.

53 posted on 05/24/2005 12:26:42 PM PDT by southernnorthcarolina (UNC Tar Heels: NCAA Basketball Champions 1957/1982/1993/2005)
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To: cicero's_son

So you believe DeWine and Graham....wait I have this bridge for sale.


54 posted on 05/24/2005 12:29:58 PM PDT by OldFriend (MAJOR TAMMY DUCKWORTH.....INSPIRATIONAL)
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To: bigj00

Oh yes, I like that idea.


55 posted on 05/24/2005 12:33:33 PM PDT by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Legislatures are so outdated. If you want real political victory, take your issue to court.)
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To: AFPhys

I just heard him on C_SPAN , I like what he said regarding his vote if any one of the 7 Demos start Filibustering that he would vote for the Constitutional option!

Now if we could hear from the other 6 pubbies to support that, I would say we won a battle....

He also said that with brown, Owen and Pryor it was no longer valid for any Senator to say that a nominee was an extreme nominee just cause they were Conservative!!!!

That is a BIGEE!!!


56 posted on 05/24/2005 12:35:26 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (This tagline no longer operative....floated away in the flood of 2005 ,)
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To: cogitator
this is a win, folks. The status quo has been altered in significant favor of the Republicans.

I am coming around to that view, but more needs to play out!

57 posted on 05/24/2005 12:37:55 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (This tagline no longer operative....floated away in the flood of 2005 ,)
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To: eyespysomething
("Justice Marshall has made his decision, now let him enforce it"--Pres. Andrew Jackson)

Unfortunately, Jackson said this in regard to the forced march of the Cherokee Indians to Oklahoma in cold weather beginning in October of 1838, resulting in the death of more than 1/4 of them. The Cherokee had adopted American ways, educated their children, some of whom became lawyers, and appealed their case to the Supreme Court, where they WON. Then they were removed and killed anyway. I'm sure you didn't mean THAT context.

58 posted on 05/24/2005 12:47:28 PM PDT by ntnychik
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To: af_vet_1981

"There are FIVE SOLID NOs against the Constitutional option. There are 4 or 5 unknown."

Then dammit, thats when you grab the bull by the horns and tell these clowns "It's time to pick sides...permanently. You don't get a pass on this one. It's too important". The Morons from Maine and Chaffee wouldn't care, but the others would line up. Call Dick Cheney to the Senate and get 51 votes.

No guts, no glory.


59 posted on 05/24/2005 12:48:46 PM PDT by DesScorp
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To: AFPhys
In the last hour of the show, Lindsey Graham was on the Mike Gallagher show. """

Mike Gallagher doesn't have a lot upstairs. Graham chose well in going before an interviewer who can be easily outgunned.

60 posted on 05/24/2005 12:52:30 PM PDT by churchillbuff
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