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Lindsey Graham warns GOP against going too far right [defends Fiorina, attacks DeMint, Hoffman]
Politico ^ | 2009-11-04 | Manu Raju

Posted on 11/04/2009 5:02:37 PM PST by rabscuttle385

The morning after Republicans lost an upstate New York House seat, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) warned that conservative activists will bring destruction to the Republican Party if they drive out moderate candidates across the country.

“To those people who are pursuing purity, you’ll become a club not a party,” Graham told POLITICO in the Capitol Wednesday. “Those people who are trying to embrace conservatism in a thoughtful way that fits the region and the state and the district are going to do well. Conservativism is an asset. Blind ideology is not.”

Graham, who has sparred with his party’s right wing on issues ranging from climate change to Guantanamo Bay to Sonia Sotomayor’s Supreme Court nomination, warned that those concerned about the state of the GOP should help find candidates who are electable — not ones who adhere to a particular type of ideology. And he said that both the GOP nominee, Dede Scozzafava and the conservative party candidate Doug Hoffman were both out of the mainstream of the upstate New York district – which lead to the victory of Democrat Bill Owens Tuesday night.

(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; Politics/Elections; US: California; US: New York; US: South Carolina
KEYWORDS: ca2010; demint; devore; diablo; fiorina; graham4obama; grahamantipalin; hoffman; lindseygraham; mccainmutiny; mclamesrevenge; ny23; recallhisass; rino; rinoparty; scozzafava; sonofabitch; teapartyrebellion; time2partyagain
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To: ought-six

SC people think of Lindsey the same way the Utahans do Orrin G. Hatch and the poor Hossier Richard Lugar, the distinguished (arrogant) one, yea, the one who looks down his nose at the dumb Hossiers.


101 posted on 11/04/2009 7:26:10 PM PST by Theodore R.
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To: Rastus

The U.S. Senate does not acknowledge state-authorized recalls.


102 posted on 11/04/2009 7:27:27 PM PST by Theodore R.
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To: Theodore R.

Draft Dodging Dick Lugar?


104 posted on 11/04/2009 7:33:57 PM PST by MSF BU (++)
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To: rabscuttle385
Hey Lindsey, how many real Republicans would drop out of a race and support a Democrat. You Dumb-ass!
105 posted on 11/04/2009 7:35:25 PM PST by kempo
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To: Baynative

The Lying Traitor, and the other Wuss!

Both Traitors.

Anyone who votes for Cap & Trade is either a Traitor or simply Too Stupid to Hold Public Office.


108 posted on 11/04/2009 7:39:08 PM PST by Texas Fossil (Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.)
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To: rabscuttle385
The morning after Republicans lost an upstate New York House seat, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) warned that conservative activists will bring destruction to the Republican Party if they drive out moderate candidates across the country.

Hey, Lindsey, if the GOP had actually picked a moderate in this race, maybe the dookie wouldn't have hit the fan. That is, unless moderates now believe in card check, in which case I suppose Ms. Scozzafava might have qualified as a moderate. The definition of "moderate" seems quite liquid, which pretty much describes moderates - no spine, no principles.

109 posted on 11/04/2009 7:42:01 PM PST by Major Matt Mason (The DemocRat Party is no longer an American political party.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
What the hell is wrong with South Carolina? Unseat this idiot.

Hey Lindsey....for the record, I would rather not be in any party that you are in, because there is no tent large enough to make you palatable to me.

110 posted on 11/04/2009 7:58:16 PM PST by IMissPresidentReagan (HEY LINDSEY AND RINOS ET. AL.: IT'S NOT THAT I'M TOO FAR RIGHT; IT'S THAT YOU'RE TOO FAR WRONG!)
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To: rabscuttle385
...Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) warned that conservative activists will bring destruction to the Republican Party if they drive out moderate candidates across the country.

So, you've got to wonder what Lindsey calls the current state of affairs(?)

111 posted on 11/04/2009 8:04:42 PM PST by The Duke ("Are you now or have you ever been a member of the Democrat Party?")
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To: The Duke

Golly he is the slimy worst. He is so sicking that I will personally contribute to his conservative opponent. Get these communists out of our party!!!


112 posted on 11/04/2009 8:10:20 PM PST by londonfog
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To: rabscuttle385
Hey Lindsay...

Get bent.

113 posted on 11/04/2009 8:27:39 PM PST by Mr. Silverback (We're right! We're free! And we'll fight! And you'll seeeeeeee!)
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To: Rocky

I love the smell of burning RINO in the morning.

I should have voted for the Democrat, at lest he was honest about being lying scum....


114 posted on 11/04/2009 8:38:28 PM PST by scgator
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To: fieldmarshaldj
"Linds got absorbed by the hive. He is now the enemy. "

Ol' Newt sure changed his tune pronto after being vilified?

yitbos

115 posted on 11/04/2009 8:41:31 PM PST by bruinbirdman ("Those who control language control minds.")
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To: rabscuttle385

You will warn us of nothing, Miss Lindsay. Now STFU, you worthless POS.


116 posted on 11/04/2009 8:55:47 PM PST by darkangel82 (I don't have a superiority complex, I'm just better than you.)
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To: rabscuttle385
Does anyone in Congress have the balls to simply stand up in the chamber and declare global warming a fraud? How hard is that?

I grew up learning calculus, thermodynamics and Galileo. I can't believe in the 21st century that observable nature is considered treason among the WH czars.
117 posted on 11/04/2009 8:55:49 PM PST by Thrownatbirth (.....Iraq Invasion fan since '91.)
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To: rabscuttle385

Lindsey ... the other side of the aisle is that-a-way. Do not let the door bump you in the rear end on your way out.


118 posted on 11/04/2009 9:00:18 PM PST by altair (I want him to fail)
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To: bruinbirdman

Heh. Newt’s been out of Congress 11 years as of this coming January, and he acts like he never left... still suffering from chronic Potomac Disease.


119 posted on 11/04/2009 9:10:08 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps !"~~)
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To: Doohickey

Dede was a moderate? Who knew? LOL.


120 posted on 11/04/2009 9:14:48 PM PST by Marysecretary (GOD IS STILL IN CONTROL!)
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