Posted on 05/17/2009 8:04:18 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Lindsey Graham gets combative over GOP future Posted: 10:45 AM ET
From CNN Political Producer Peter Hamby
(CNN) – A combative Lindsey Graham got into a sharp back-and-forth with some audience members at the South Carolina GOP convention on Saturday as he made the case for an open-tent Republican party.
According to The State newspaper and video posted on YouTube, the South Carolina senator told the convention he wants to build a party that can compete in Pennsylvania and Connecticut as well as in his home state.
“You’re a hypocrite!,” one man in the audience yelled.
“I’m a winner, pal,” Graham retorted. Moments later, after saying he wants to the party to reach out to independent voters, he said: “Winning matters to me. If it doesn’t matter to you, there’s the exit sign.”
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I’ll get banned if I say what I think about this putz....
If it doesn’t matter to you, there’s the exit sign.”
Thereby proving the hypocrisy charge in one breath.
We don’t need “your kind” in “our” big tent.
Offering the voters a clear choice and educating them on why your candidate is the best choice just might work!
Graham is more than willing to sell out all conservative principles just so he can win an election? Then what’s the point? Just run as a Dem you putz.
Gramnesty can’t wait for his turn to be McLame II and drag the GOP under the final wave! How the hell do these clowns in SC keep electing a dufus like this!
Graham is a useless RINO.
Actually Lindsey, I didn’t need your permission to go - I’ve already left your party. The Republican Party, thanks to jerks like you, is now the losing party of stupid.
You mean people like McCain?
Good to know the Republicans are listening to their base.
Someone needs to tell Graham, that his political butt along with McCain’s butt was kicked out when they lost the last election and they just don’t know it yet!
Have a cold one on me, good man!!!
Hasn’t Lindsey been picking up mass over the decades? Perhaps he now sees the wisdom of a big tent, just like young, “Big Tent” McCain.
Thanks for pointing out the exit sign, Gramnesty.
Screw the GOP.
I got news for you Lindsey Shamnesty, you POS RINO. You’re no different than a dirty Democrat-you’ll do and say anything for political expediency. I urge all true conservatives to stay as far away from these RINOs as possible and give them absolutely no support in any form or fashion.
He said it himself......Only winning matters to him. He doesn’t care about conservative ideas...I’m ashamed my state of SC sent this RINO back to Washington...
Since Biden has departed, I guess the “Dumbest Man in the Senate” slot is open. I do believe Goober has the inside track to claim that title.
How he can even come from the same state as DeMint is anyone’s guess. Can’t wait to vote against him in the next primary.
Grahamnesty is a winner? Only if it is defined as a hypocrite, ready and willing to sell out the American people and the nation for re-election, power and wealth.
That fence spike, is up there to the hilt, *ain’t* it Lindsey?
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