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Lindsey Graham fears the spending cuts DeMint demands-Is Jim DeMint an Isolationist?
Charleston City Paper ^ | 1-25-2012 | Jack Hunter

Posted on 01/30/2012 8:21:49 AM PST by Colonel Kangaroo

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Lindsey Graham, a stalwart of the "stretch ourselves thin" foreign policy which has been Republican orthodoxy since 2000. If we want to conserve the principles of Washington and the Founders, endless international interventions are not cnservative.
1 posted on 01/30/2012 8:21:53 AM PST by Colonel Kangaroo
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To: Colonel Kangaroo

Juan MeCain farts, Lindsey Graham speaks.


2 posted on 01/30/2012 8:24:35 AM PST by TexasCajun
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The McCain-Graham political model:


3 posted on 01/30/2012 8:29:15 AM PST by Colonel Kangaroo
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Graham unfortunately knows his state well enough to cobble up electoral majorities. But if he wants another war he better not pay for it out of the hides of the Fedgov pensioners of his state.


4 posted on 01/30/2012 8:35:17 AM PST by junta ("Peace is a racket", testimony from crime boss Barrack Hussein Obama.)
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Just take a look at South Korea.

It's totally unbelievable that after 60 years of that war we still have...

28,500 U.S. TROOPS in South Korea!

Do the math on how much WE (the taxpayers) are paying for this utter folly....

28,500 troops (per Dept of State) x $110,000/yr per head (per CBO)

Over 3 BILLION $$$ per year!


5 posted on 01/30/2012 8:37:46 AM PST by LibFreeUSA (Pick Your Poison)
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But they are very lucrative, I know a guy making big six figures in AfPak. Of course since 2008 he is an Obama supporter, pre-08 he thought Bush was on the right track, meaning he knows which way the wind is blowing.


6 posted on 01/30/2012 8:37:52 AM PST by junta ("Peace is a racket", testimony from crime boss Barrack Hussein Obama.)
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No, DeMint is not an isolationist. He's a pragmatic Conservative. Lindsay Graham “fears” because it is the nature of weak willed liberals to fear.
7 posted on 01/30/2012 8:39:52 AM PST by Ozymandias Ghost
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When can someone run against this RINO? We need his state to stop allowing Democrats to vote in the primary. That’s how Lindsay keeps winning.


8 posted on 01/30/2012 8:43:37 AM PST by winner3000 (ss)
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Take most or all of the US troops off the 38th parallel and you can imagine anything made by Samsung or LG not making it to the US.


9 posted on 01/30/2012 8:44:03 AM PST by Reagan Disciple (Peace through Strength)
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(Sen. Lindsey Graham said on Fox News, “I hope people in the country understand that we’re Ronald Reagan Republicans in South Carolina.)

That’s right. That’s why Lindsey pisses on everything that Ronald Reagan stood for. DeMint is a heck a lot closer to Ronald Reagan’s philosophy than the RINO Graham.


10 posted on 01/30/2012 8:47:56 AM PST by winner3000 (ss)
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-"Take most or all of the US troops off the 38th parallel and you can imagine anything made by Samsung or LG not making it to the US." Too bad!

With that type of thinking, maybe we should also send some troops to Israel so they can 'scare' those Arabs too.

11 posted on 01/30/2012 8:56:40 AM PST by LibFreeUSA (Pick Your Poison)
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Well, the ‘arabs’ don’t have a 1MM+ man standing army supplied with Russian and Chinese military equipment backed by nuclear weapons.

Although Iran is working toward that goal.........


12 posted on 01/30/2012 9:02:35 AM PST by Reagan Disciple (Peace through Strength)
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To: Colonel Kangaroo

No, DeMint isn’t an isolationist, he’s one of the only few who have any sense.


13 posted on 01/30/2012 9:15:32 AM PST by TurkeyLurkey
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I still can’t believe anyone, even n SC, takes this moron seriously


14 posted on 01/30/2012 9:22:21 AM PST by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
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DeMint is my hero in congress. No iffies about it.


15 posted on 01/30/2012 9:25:48 AM PST by veracious
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Over 3 BILLION $$$ per year!

To put that in perspective, the National Debt has continued to increase an average of $3.94 billion per day since September 28, 2007!

The federal government borrows $4 billion every day. We make $73.9 million a day in interest payments to China. That works to be about $27 billion a year.

16 posted on 01/30/2012 9:40:49 AM PST by kabar
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“DeMint is my hero in congress. No iffies about it.”

Same here.


17 posted on 01/30/2012 9:43:35 AM PST by SharpRightTurn ( White, black, and red all over--America's affirmative action, metrosexual president.)
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To: Colonel Kangaroo

He’s also responsible for turning the US into an abusive police state and creating an American KGB in the name of domestic terrorism. The girl has to go, South Carolina! It’s insane.


18 posted on 01/30/2012 9:46:29 AM PST by SaraJohnson
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Obama is shipping money over to the Muslim Brotherhood like there is no tomorrow. Nation building DOES NOT WORK.


19 posted on 01/30/2012 9:49:00 AM PST by SaraJohnson
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Lindsey Graham is NOT wooing the “strong national defense” crowd in South Carolina.

He’s wooing the “protect the national defense budget spending in South Carolina” crowd.

For him, it’s not about the right level of defense resources, in a national strategic sense.

For him it’s about the right level of defense-related jobs and spending in South Carolina.

Is he up for re-election in 2012?


20 posted on 01/30/2012 10:29:10 AM PST by Wuli (a)
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