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Rodguy, Graham was a lawyer in Seneca, SC, (home of Clemson University), and a very conservative district, as is the whole Upstate SC area. Despite the contempt we all have for him, he is a smart fellow, and knew that to have a political career he'd have to play a conservative convincingly enough to fool the local rubes. He made it to US Congressman and since he had to face re-election every two years, he pretty much minded his conservative P's & Q's and built his reputation as a "conservative". He then got his big chance to shine on the national stage as one of Henry Hyde's House Judiciary Committee impeachment managers in the Clinton impeachment debacle. (Even there he slipped up once and revealed a glimpse of his McCain-style triangulation/sabotage tendencies, but that can wait for another time... /g) When Senator Strom Thurmond died the extremely powerful SC Republican Party establishment anointed him for the seat. As a US Senator only facing re-election every six years, and having a statewide voter base his electoral vulnerability disappeared and Graham was then free to "be himself". He no longer has to worry about what the "bigoted" rubes he ostensibly represents think of him, and has told them so. He's not worried about his 2014 re-election because he's one of the insiders and fully expects to move on to bigger and better things in the new order by then... Of course, I could have just given you the short version and said his entire political career has been a con... /g

So,that gives us two years.

I say the internet has charged everything.

Today we know who the players are and more and more rinos are out of bounds and personna non grata. America has just been sabotaged like never before by the hard left.

They are now hated.Second in line to be hated are the rinos. They know it. All we have to do is follow through and seek out conservative candidates and my guess is that in a state like SC we will find one who can mount a campaign against Graham. Any more Senate seats are almost national seats for controversial figures like Linda Graham.

With any luck at all he will be gone in 2014.

With any luck at all he will be gone in 2014.

I don't doubt he might be challenged and defeated for the Senate seat in 2014 - much will depend on how things go in 2012. Graham will go with the winners. If the left triumphs he'll pucker up for them quicker than a jack rabbit. he will serve any master as long as he can be a "player".

However, my point that I didn't make clear, is that Graham, if the wind goes against him in SC, is probably planning to move on to something like a Cabinet position (or one of our new, unconstitutional "czar" positions, under whoever's in charge), no matter who he has to throw under the bus to get it.