The Village People?
Posted on 10/19/2013 5:54:38 AM PDT by cotton1706
Fiscally liberal incumbent Lindsey Graham isn’t trying to win his 2014 Republican primary election in South Carolina. Far from it.
What is he trying to do? Fundamentally redefine the way GOP primary races are run in the Palmetto State … and every state which permits “open” primary elections (or primaries in which non-registered “Republicans” can vote).
Graham, who has a $7 million war chest at his disposal, has reportedly hired an out-of-state firm to run what one national consultant called “the most sophisticated voter identification and turnout platform ever implemented at the state level.”
According to a source familiar with the project, Graham’s team is assembling “an army” of precinct captains all across the state – operatives who will organize their neighborhoods using voter profile data from a custom database.
Their mission? To identify and turn out Democrats and left-leaning independents who don’t typically vote in GOP primaries – as well as “centrists” and left-leaning “Republicans” who do.
“They have over 1,000 precinct captains already lined up,” a source familiar with Graham’s effort tells FITS. “More are coming online every day. They are building a machine.”
Graham’s campaign did not respond to our request for comment on the operation. Graham’s consultant, Richard Quinn, also did not respond to our request for comment.
One national operative said Graham’s massive grassroots mobilization effort was akin to “a candidate creating a new party” – although our SCGOP sources were quick to dispute this characterization, choosing instead to refer to the operation as a “unique primary focused infrastructure.”
Whatever you want to call it … it’s the reason Graham hasn’t done what he usually does prior to a primary election, which is tack to the right of the ideological spectrum. Instead Graham has pressed the accelerator down and made a beeline toward the left.
“He’s basically saying ‘Screw the SCGOP, I’m going to build my own constituency,’” our national source explained.
Graham’s support among GOP primary voters has weakened considerably in recent months – with polls showing favorable conditions for an upset. That isn’t surprising considering Graham has backed tax hikes, domestic spying, war with Syria and – most recently – budgets that fully fund Obamacare.
Three Republicans have announced their candidacies against Graham in the 2014 primary – S.C. Sen. Lee Bright (R-Spartanburg), Charleston businesswoman Nancy Mace and Upstate social conservative businessman Richard Cash. Combined, the three candidates only have about $500,000 in their campaign war chests.
Lindsey Graham is a power-hungry, evil and insidious man.
Should he succeed in again getting the republican nomination, EVERY conservative should vote for the democrat. I do not say this lightly. But in a race between a democrat and Lindsey Graham, Graham WOULD NOT be "the lesser of two evils!"
This is a sign of desperation as he takes a page out of the Obama playbook.
Pray America is Waking Up
The only was to defeat the statist gluttons is for individuals nationwide to donate to their primary opponents. They must be taught a lesson.
Joe Carr to oust Lamar Alexander in TN
Lee Bright to oust Lindsey Graham in SC
Chris McDaniel to oust Thad Cochran in MS
Dr. Milton Wolf to oust Pat Roberts in KS
PLEASE, contact Louie Gohmert and tell him we want to add his name as opposing Cornyn
Why don’t we contact Louie Gohmert and tell him good job.....keep doing what your’re doing. Why buy into the DC career ladder nonsense......
Want to thwart this strategy? Run a Tea Party candidate as a Democrat... In the event LG gets the Repub nomination, at least the voters will have a choice...
Otherwise, prepare to vote for the Democrat. These RINO collaborators MUST GO! Six more years of this idiot is unbearable...
Good thing Gomert has daughters. Fewer bad hair days.
What Tea Party advocate would ever call themselves a democrat?
Are you deranged?
That's exactly what I plan to do.
Its a STRATEGY and a backup plan... Do you think republicans are going to close the SC primaries so the Democrats can’t pick LG?
Are YOU deranged?
You better start using your brain, keyboard cowboy!
That has already been tried and failed. Republicans won't vote for anybody but a Republican.
Graham a lot of money for reelection but where did it come from? If I were a liberal I would throw money at him just to further the destruction of our state as a Conservative stonghold.
I don’t know if Governor Haley has the power but initializing a move to change our primaries to closed would be a big step in the right direction. Maybe it has to originate in the State House but it should be done.
stonghold= stronghold
...but other than that...a GREAT LIST of things to do!
Repeat after me...He will fail!
The Village People?
The program as described sounds like the one Obama used. He had the area where I live blanketed with “captains” who visited homes, had parties, etc. They not only knew who to target but they had simple but effective scripts for the organizers who then asked each “yes” person to become an organizer. They also had “walk around” money.
The Republicans had a office where you could pick up information, bumper stickers, etc. There was also a statewide bank of telephone callers (I did receive a couple of such calls) The Republicans choose to spend their money on TV ads.
Is there a well regarded conservative who run as an independent in the general election? If Graham uses a strategy designed to take advantage of the open primary and win with liberal voters, then conservatives should field an independent.
Murkowski and Joe Lieberman ran as independents and won after losing their party primaries. If that can be done in SC, if Graham wins the primary, maybe the top vote getter other than Graham should then run as an independent.
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