Posted on 05/15/2008 7:07:30 AM PDT by vietvet67
During the Clinton impeachment, I liked Lindsey Graham, but what the heck happened to him??? Either he is now showing who he really is or someone has something on him or both. I really wish there was a political party I could feel good about.
There are two ways of looking at this issue. One is a person’s cumulative record, as Hillyer does here. The other is by a singular act so unforgivable as to make an individual a failure as a public official. Both are legitimate IMO.
In terms of the latter, I have to go with my own RINO senator from hell, John Warner. No one will ever convince me that Warner, who was Sec of the Navy when Jean Kerry came home from Vietnam and went into his treason mode, is telling the truth when he claims to have no recollection of whether Kerry was less than honorably discharged. You dont forget something like this; Kerry was the govt’s biggest critic.
We came unbelievably close to having a man who should have been tried for treason elected president because Warner put senatorial courtesy before the country.
” owe him a ‘thank you’ for Clarence Thomas” but he more than made up for it during his performance in the Senate debate over removal of the impeached president.
Graham needs taking out back for an ass whoopin for his amnesty b.s.
I’m not arguing otherwise... hence, he’s a turd in a punchbowl.
Points well taken, but Specter is the worst for the following reasons:
I remember watching him during the Clinton impeachment hearings. I liked him then.
Then he basically did a 180 as a senator. At first I thought the Clintons or Kennedy had something on him that could destroy him. But he’s kept it up for so long, it looks so natural.
#1 - McGore
“What, for example, could possibly have possessed Graham, in April of 2006, to write an essay for Time magazine about the virtues of Hillary Clinton?”
Well his “good friend” Juan McCain endorsed her for President!
“He praises liberals, but reserves particular venom for conservatives who disagree with him.”
Juan McCain?
“but Graham spends most of his time trailing behind John McCain like a valet”
Kind of like “Smithers” to The Simpsons’ Montgomery Burns.
I would not call him the worst Republican Senator (he is in the top 10 for sure), but he is the number one gayest for sure.
I know you’ll love this.
that Graham was “light in the loafers.”
His personal sexual preference may or may not be as stated. However, politically, he’s voted like he’s head towel boy in a San Francisco bath house.
Freepers on this thread have it right. Snarlin' Arlen MacSpecter is the CLEARLY worst "Republican" in the U.S. Senate right now. Graham doesn't even close, though the RINO twins from Maine would probably rank up there.
Ironically, Graham's overall record is pretty close to that of former Senator Peter Fitzgerald, whom you have nothing but praise for. Indeed, Fitzgerald also had a bunch of conservatives screaming "traitor" and "sellout" at him for voting AYE on a couple of McCain-Feingold bills, opposing drilling in ANWR, and his stupid vote on that gun bill, though the other 90% of the time he was fine. Had one Illinois freeper who worked side-by-side with the Chicago Dem machine to "rid" us of "RINO" Fitzgerald, saying "your boy Peter is liberal across the board, ACU ratings don't matter". Gee, where we have we heard THAT before?
You know, the guy who's supposedly a "liberal partisan douchebag" and "angling to be AG in the next Dem adminstration", nevermind the indictments and convictions he's brought against crooked leftist icons George Ryan, Tony Rezko, all of Mayor Daley's goons in the Hired Truck scandal...
I swear if JimRob ever did a FR poll on "Has Patrick Fitzgerald done a good job as U.S. Attorney and deserves to be retained?", 90% of freepers in his home state of Illinois would say YES, and 90% of freepers from other 49 states would say "Hell NO". The only way you'd get Illinoisans to agree that Fitz has got to go would be by polling Rod Blagojevich, Richard Daley, Emil Jones, and Mike Madigan. They sure to agree with the "conservative" majority on FR about our U.S. Attorney here in Illinois.
Billy, a point that you’ve consistently failed to miss here is that sometimes with a given individual that may have done well or performed their job in the majority of instances, all they have to do is make a single or a few MAJOR screw-ups, and it negates most, if not all, of the good they’ve done. In the case of the US Attorney, whatever good work he did up to the Scooter Libby business was lost when he decided to go on a fishing expedition and embarrassed himself, his office, and made him look as though he was completely out of control. He should’ve been summarily fired for his conduct by the President, all because he didn’t have the sense to know when to drop something. Prosecutors don’t like to lose and if allowed to go unchecked, they could find a way to indict a ham sandwich. It’s that simple.
True. It certainly sounds like it.
But I'd be wary of simply taking the word of some blogger at the American Spectator for it. Next time they might not be right.
Graham is too weak-willed and easily led. Somebody else might go against the Spectator and actually be right.
I am growing weary of Graham’s radio ads touting his “conservative credentials”. He even takes credit for getting Roberts and Alito on the SCOTUS bench.
My only hope is that the rest of my fellow conservative Palmetto Staters are as disgusted by this RINO scumbag as I am. It’s starting to look as if at least in South Carolina, we will actually have a choice in the coming election... unlike the choices in the Presidential election (which I will skip this time).
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