Posted on 12/04/2010 10:39:38 AM PST by Free ThinkerNY
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said that Republicans "made some pretty poor choices" in choosing their Senate candidates this fall.
Graham, in a Senate floor speech on Saturday, made an aside comment underscoring the frustration the GOP faced after some Tea Party-aligned nominees fell short in their campaigns.
"The House had a dramatic election. We picked up seats in the Senate," Graham said, video of which is posted by C-SPAN. "Some of us thought, maybe we could pick up two or three more, but we made some pretty poor choices when it came to candidates."
The South Carolina Republican made the comment as an aside to remarks about the consequences facing lawmakers who vote to allow an increase in taxes. Senate Democrats fell short of the necessary votes in a rare Saturday vote that would have allowed taxes go up on top earners.
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When will the republican party prepare before the election that this will happen and then act? Seems like this is a recurring theme and the pubbies are slow to react. Tea party time.
No. First time around, he ran as a true Conservative. Turns out he wasn’t a Conservative at all. So who was behind his campaigns all along? Truly, it isn’t hard to figure. The open primary system in SC (the Republican Party primary specifically) allows for anyone of any party to vote in a Republican primary allowing possible manipulation by the opposition. In Linseed’s case, the “possible” is a certainty. Couple this practice with total support by the media in SC, and you are likely faced with Governor Graham eventually, or at a minimum, Senator Graham...until The Day of The Lord.
To be more precise, I might have written that, in SC’s open primary system, crossover democrats added to a sufficient number of RINOs has produced Republican candidates not acceptable to SC Conservatives who comprise the majority of registered SC Republicans.
Using a similar but modified tactic, the same manipulation is accomplished in the General Election by the Dems running an opposing candidate who won’t likely win and, perhaps, has his own money to finance much of his Democrat campaign. Then the machine Dems and RINOs vote for their desired candidate, Graham. That’s what has happened more than once, not only benefitting Graham but other machine candidates at the State level.
Again, my main point is that the Open Primary system MUST be adjusted or the will of the majority of the SC people will continue to be thwarted.
On a similar subject, the people of SC elected Mark Sanford by a hefty margin, then watched him be out-maneuvered by the same Columbia crowd that continues to see that Graham is in office, and yet stood behind him while Columbia and the local/national media were making him powerless through incessant ridicule, which still continues even now. It wasn’t just Sanford’s affair that crippled him; it was that foul-smelling Columbia Democrat/RINO/media triumvirate that used it and many prevarications against him. Such utter hypocrites.
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