Graham: Trump Appeals To 'Dark Side' Of GOP That Thinks Obama Is Muslim

Talking Point Memo's Livewire ^ | August 25, 2015 | Caitlin Cruz

[stevem]

Graham: Trump Appeals To 'Dark Side' Of GOP That Thinks Obama Is Muslim

Lindsey Graham appeals to no side.

[silverleaf]

What is it with Linda this week?

The candidates drew straws about who was going to bait Trump and Linda lost?

Following advice from Captain Crunch Juan McCain?

Thinking “ moderates” will be impressed by his hissy fits?

[Caipirabob]

Linda Graham appeals to DC side of GopE that prefers to seek satisfaction at places like below:

[C. Edmund Wright]

I know...it’s shaping up to be the worst Presidential campaign in history...

[rocketmag]

Um....looks like a duck, walks like a duck.. also think it’s a little more than 25% and probably quite a few Dems..they just don’t care

[wetgundog]

Graham please go open up a vein.

[Haiku Guy]

Dear Senator Graham,

Your problem here is not that Republican Voters hate Obama.

Your problem here is that Republican Voters hate you.

We oppose Obama, and expect to be insulted and treated like an adversary by the Democrats. It’s not all skittles and roses, but nobody would expect it to be any different. What we really hate, though, is when the politicans who pretend to be on out side insult us and treat us like adversaries.

I hate that guy much more than I hate Obama.

And you, Senator Graham, are that guy.

[Personal Responsibility]

Did Graham just call a significant portion of HIS OWN VOTER BASE the Dark Side? As in the Empire? As in the BAD GUYS?

Strategy is apparently not Graham’s strong suit.

[Haiku Guy]

Short of some kind of King Ralph-type electrical accident, there is no path by which Lindsey Graham becomes President of the United States. His best bet is to hide in an Undisclosed Secure Location for the duration of the Republican National Convention, and hope for a cataclysm.

[vpintheak]

Graham, “I plan to win the republican primary by offending Republicans and conservatives.”

[bray]

If only he would fight with the same vigor against Dems as he does against Conservatives. He may not make the kiddy debate this time.

Pray America is waking

[trebb]

And Graham can now be associated with the dark side that prefers to ignore Obama’s terrorist backing proclivities...

[odawg]

“Dark Side” is a subliminal, racist, micro-aggression!”

Great point!!!

[Jed Eckert]

“Twenty-five percent of our party that probably thinks Obama was born in Kenya.....

Now where in the world would they ever get a silly notion like that?

Hint:Obama’s Literary Agent in 1991 Booklet

[so_real]

Graham initially used the interview to defend his dismal poll numbers in his home state, South Carolina, but pivoted into a more specific attack on the GOP frontrunner. He said a Trump nomination would "kill" the GOP GOP-E.

Fixed it for him. I'm not a big Trump supporter, but Graham is doing a good job of selling him to me.

[DungeonMaster]

Obama IS a Muslim!

[DungeonMaster]

At least Graham realizes that being a Muslim is a bad thing.

[Savage Beast]

"Lindsey Graham...couldn’t muster more than 4 percent of the support in the presidential primary."
"Donald Trump Leads South Carolina, Lindsey Graham Falters In Home State"
by Ginger Gibson
International Business Times
http://www.ibtimes.com/donald-trump-leads-south-carolina-lindsey-graham-falters-home-state-2067384

[RetSignman]

[...tapped into the “dark side”...]

You can usually find him in any bath house in Washington getting ‘tapped’ in the dark side.

[arthurus]

And he declared his faith for all the (Moslem) world when he recited shaheed in Arabic at Cairo. His early education was traditional Moslem. He knows that one does not recite shaheed publicly as a lark, that it is a serious and non retractable declaration.