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Lindsey Graham to Jump Into 2016 Presidential Race: ‘Ready to Be Commander-in-Chief on Day One’
ABC News ^
| 6-1-2015
| Erin Dooley
Posted on 06/01/2015 8:14:14 AM PDT by tcrlaf
South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham is “ready to be commander-in-chief on day one,” the Republican will say when he announces his presidential candidacy in South Carolina today, according to excerpts of his remarks as prepared for delivery.
“I intend to be president not of a single party, but of a nation,” he will say. “I want to do more than make big government smaller. I want to help make a great nation greater.”
Graham, a retired Air Force colonel, enters the race just as a fierce battle over national security rages in the Senate. The South Carolina senator – a noted defense hawk – stands in sharp contrast to Sen. Rand Paul, who spent Sunday night railing against anti-terrorism provisions in the PATRIOT act and just last month declared that GOP hawks have contributed to the rise of ISIS.
“I want to be president to defeat the enemies trying to kill us, not just penalize them or criticize them or contain them, but defeat them,” Graham, 59, will say today.
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TOPICS: Breaking News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: South Carolina
KEYWORDS: 2016election; bully; candidate; election2016; fag; gay; graham; homosexualagenda; lindseygraham; republican; rino; southcarolina; tranny
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To: LostInBayport
If you think this has become a clown show now, just wait until Trump jumps in.
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posted on
06/01/2015 8:26:34 AM PDT
by
tcrlaf
(They told me it could never happen in America. And then it did....)
To: tcrlaf
We’ve already had one wimp as president and that didn’t work out so well.
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posted on
06/01/2015 8:27:36 AM PDT
by
AlaskaErik
(I served and protected my country for 31 years. Progressives spent that time trying to destroy it.)
To: tcrlaf
“I want to be president to defeat the enemies trying to kill us, not just penalize them or criticize them or contain them, but defeat them,” Graham, 59, will say today."
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posted on
06/01/2015 8:27:53 AM PDT
by
CatherineofAragon
(("This is a Laztatorship. You don't like it, get a day's rations and get out of this office."))
To: Bridesheadfan
I believe he’d make a better “first lady”.
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posted on
06/01/2015 8:28:36 AM PDT
by
hal ogen
(First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
To: CatherineofAragon
With Daily Kos’rs already tweeting that this is an example of Republican Warmongering and blood lust.
They don’t mention Libya or Baltimore though. Odd that....
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posted on
06/01/2015 8:30:43 AM PDT
by
tcrlaf
(They told me it could never happen in America. And then it did....)
To: tcrlaf
I think this is becoming all about speaker fees. “So and So, blah blah blah and former presidential candidate”...
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posted on
06/01/2015 8:31:02 AM PDT
by
Codeflier
(Bush, Clinton, Bush, Obama - 4 democrat presidents in a row and counting...)
To: tcrlaf
Will McCain be the First Dude?
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posted on
06/01/2015 8:31:15 AM PDT
by
RedMDer
(Keep Free Republic Alive with YOUR Donations!)
To: tcrlaf
If you think this has become a clown show now, just wait until Trump jumps in.
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posted on
06/01/2015 8:31:55 AM PDT
by
LostInBayport
(When there are more people riding in the cart than there are pulling it, the cart stops moving...)
To: tcrlaf
If you loved John McCain, and judging by the 2008 election results, you didn’t, you’ll love his spawn.
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posted on
06/01/2015 8:32:07 AM PDT
by
Colonel_Flagg
("Politics is downstream from culture." -- Andrew Breitbart)
To: tcrlaf
will say when he announces his presidential candidacy Oh good, Hillary should be competing for the Dem nomination. oh wait... he's running as a Republican????
To: tcrlaf
One thing I’m quite certain of—Graham’s first day as president will never occur.
To: tcrlaf
Here's what I want you to say...
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posted on
06/01/2015 8:34:14 AM PDT
by
McGruff
(For Rent)
To: tcrlaf
People in SC must be jumping with joy: they can now sidetrack their silly little primary.
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posted on
06/01/2015 8:34:47 AM PDT
by
Theodore R.
(Liberals keep winning; so the American people must now be all-liberal all the time.)
To: tcrlaf
I’m hope he isn’t our first female president.
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posted on
06/01/2015 8:35:33 AM PDT
by
BykrBayb
(Where there is life, there is hope. - Terri Schiavo ~ Þ)
To: tcrlaf
Only crackas can have blood lust. /S
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posted on
06/01/2015 8:35:34 AM PDT
by
CatherineofAragon
(("This is a Laztatorship. You don't like it, get a day's rations and get out of this office."))
To: tcrlaf
I haven't been this excited about a presidential candidate announcement since George Pataki.
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posted on
06/01/2015 8:35:43 AM PDT
by
CaptainK
(...please make it stop. Shake a can of pennies at it.)
To: LostInBayport
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posted on
06/01/2015 8:35:57 AM PDT
by
CatherineofAragon
(("This is a Laztatorship. You don't like it, get a day's rations and get out of this office."))
To: tcrlaf
Well, he’d finally get that tiara....
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posted on
06/01/2015 8:37:46 AM PDT
by
Vendome
(Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
To: tcrlaf
Another treasonous establishment puke running in the criminal organization called the GOP.
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posted on
06/01/2015 8:39:07 AM PDT
by
Godebert
To: tcrlaf
Apparently he is playing the John Kerry “I served in uniform” card (most of the GOP field has not)
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