Posted on 11/23/2006 6:33:22 AM PST by jmaroneps37
After elections, we always hear talk about the voters having spoken and the politicians having to listen, but neither ever seems to be true.
One way for us to be heard is to primary a target that will put fear in the hearts of our enemies. Primarying Lindsey Graham is the way to get our point across and do so without even risking his seat.
The Senate’s RINO herd disappointed us over and over during this past congress, but of all these disappointments, the gang of 14’s is the handiest example of why we have to strike back. This strike has to be effective and done surgically.
DeWine and Chaffee are gone. We can’t go after the others because people like Collins and Juan McKennedy et al are not touchable for one reason or the other.
Our delicate friend from South Carolina is a far different case, however.
Senator Lindsey Graham comes from as safe a Republican state as you can find. We can pick a name from the phonebook and run that person to a victory in South Carolina. This is an edge we have to use to put a reliable conservative in Graham’s seat.
It is approximately 470 days to Primary Day in South Carolina. This is not a lot of time, but certainly enough if the effort gets going soon.
If we can organize a primary for Graham he will either acknowledge it or ignore it. If he acknowledges the challenge, Graham will have to decide whether or not he still wants to be a Senator. If he wants to keep his seat he will immediately start acting like the conservative we voted for in 2002. This would be a great thing and solve our problems with RINO senators.....
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IMO we do not want to move Graham back to the Conservative side. We want to replace him with a real conservative.
What good is a man who will switch back and forth to keep his seat. He is useless and will let you down at the worst possible time. He needs to find a new job. Get rid of him.
Serious Question...Why do we think Graham is liberal? See i don't know much about him -- just that he's from SC, AND that he was a leader in the clinton empeachment.
I like both of those things.
Anyone help me with some info?
I believe he is a former JAG lawyer, butr lately he acts more like Jimmy Carter in regard to the WOT.
They'll have to extract him from McCain's backside first.
how do you spell gang of fourteen?
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Lindsey Graham is a BIG disappointment. Seems to me it started when he became chums with John (the democrat) McCain.
I live in SC and have called Graham's office again and a again and have never received any kind of conservative response.
When Lindsay Graham refused to kick out Clinton the Adulterer and Liar, I made a decision I will NEVER support Graham again.
And I won't - I will vote for a Democrap first!
Exactly, Graham's lips are stuck to McCain and the MSM's butt.
lindsey lightfoot has to go!
LLS
There is a huge influx of Blue Staters' retirees moving to SC lowcountry - (and deserting Florida)for the climate and cost-savings.
Their voting habits are changing the political landscape as well as the dunes.
sp
Well i won't vote democrat again either -- not ever under any circumstances as long as i live. And the democrats supporting clinton WAS the reason, along of course with republicans Snowe, Collins, Specter, and Chaffee.
But i remember Graham as being on the other side -- OUR side!
Am i wrong?
LOL. Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.
He will be outed.
And we all know how that will turn out.
DeWine and Chaffee were both in the "Gang".
I think this was McCain's idea to knock off his competition in the "moderate" category. In a libeal Senate, this makes him look Conservative and like the only choice for '08.
He sure changed his tune on election night when DeWine lost - you would have thought he was the second coming of Reagan.
The man is mentally unstable, and I can't wait to read the scary biography of him when he drops dead.
I like both of those things.
Anyone help me with some info?
The Gang of 14 - blocking President Bush's conservative appointments for judges and blocking the constitutional option to overcome the unprecedented Democrat filibusters
Attempting to block the trial of terrorists POWs in Gitmo by military tribunals appointed by the President and Pentagon as has been done in every previous war America has been involved in
Attempting to give terrorists rights that accused drug dealers don't have
Describing virtually all interrogation of the terrorist prisoners as "torture"
Misreprsenting the Geneva Conventions rules of treating illegal combatants, which is anyone caught fighting on a battlefield without uniform or insignia (IOW pretending to be a civilian) - anyone caught under those circumstances is subject to summary execution and always has been. Recent additions dealing with "insurgents" provides a fig leaf to allow arguing that that is no longer the case, but that is not what the wording was meant to do, according to the American and European negotiators from the time. It has never been ruled on by a court and our Senate, on ratifying the updated treaty, apparently specifically excluded this interpretation from having any affect.
Attempting to block the NSA wiretap program of international communications by terrorists - intercepting international communications of anyone, let alone enemies in time of war, is and always has been legal, even if it involves one end being in the US - he also joined the Dhimmicrats in lying and calling it a "domestic wiretap" program
Kissing John McCain's ass and falling in line every time McLame took a rhetorical cheap shot (usually in the back) at President Bush, Cheney or particularly Rumsfeld.
Those will do for a start.
As someone else mentioned, he was a JAG lawyer. Rumor has it that the asshole commander Lindsey character on the TV show JAG was based on Lindsey Graham. Apparently he's always been a suck up jerk who talked a good game but never actually did anything. And as to the impeachment, you do remember that Clinton didn't get convicted in his impeachment trial in the Senate? A good bit of that was because there were things Graham agreed to in order to "get along" with his Dhimmicrat colleagues when the impeachment was passed in the House. They left out the meat of some of the "secret evidence" (allegedly about multiple rapes by the bent one) that he, among others, agreed to suppress and keep from the public, though House members and Senators could go to a locked room and read it. Only a handful ever did and they all voted to impeach and convict. One of those, when he referred to the evidence during the debate, was threatened with censure and expulsion. Way to manage that impeachment there, Lindsey.
But other than that he's a swell guy.
Graham is not so much a liberal as he is a "grandstander". He can't be reformed anymore than McCain. Both should be shown the door.
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