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Lindsey Graham and Mike Huckabee say they are serious about thinking about running in 2016
Wa Compost ^ | Sun, Jan 18, 2015 | Jaime Fuller

Posted on 01/18/2015 12:01:14 PM PST by upchuck

On NBC's "Meet the Press," Graham announced that he has set up a committee to see "whether a guy like Lindsey Graham has a viable path."

"We're not polling, but we set up a testing-the-waters committee under the IRS code," he said earlier.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Politics/Elections; US: Arkansas; US: South Carolina
KEYWORDS: 2016election; arkansas; election2016; lindseygraham; mikehuckabee; southcarolina
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Sorry for the short excerpt.

Also see: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3248142/posts

Same story, different source.

1 posted on 01/18/2015 12:01:14 PM PST by upchuck
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To: upchuck

Linda could cut into Jeb’s vote. This is positive. Huckabee needs to go away now.


2 posted on 01/18/2015 12:02:15 PM PST by Viennacon
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To: 2A Patriot; 2nd amendment mama; 4everontheRight; 77Jimmy; A Strict Constructionist; ...
Looks like linda is thinking about tossing her Easter bonnet into the ring.

Just what we need... another uber RINO with no chance at all.

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3 posted on 01/18/2015 12:04:04 PM PST by upchuck (Entrenched incumbency is the disease. Fresh blood is the cure.)
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To: upchuck

Beaches all....


4 posted on 01/18/2015 12:07:49 PM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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5 posted on 01/18/2015 12:10:08 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.)
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To: upchuck
On NBC's "Meet the Press," Graham announced that he has set up a committee to see "whether a guy gay like Lindsey Graham has a viable path."


Fixed it.

6 posted on 01/18/2015 12:10:43 PM PST by Boogieman
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To: upchuck

...they are serious about thinking...
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Well, at least, they are not thinking seriously they are thinking about getting serious about thinking.

They think therefore they are...maybe.


7 posted on 01/18/2015 12:10:55 PM PST by RetSignman (Obama is the walking, talking middle finger in the face of America)
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To: upchuck

They need a shotgun wedding.... fast!

They’ll never win the nomination. They’re not serious candidates.


8 posted on 01/18/2015 12:12:40 PM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: Viennacon

No doubt Sweet Lindsey would hurt Romney or Bush.


9 posted on 01/18/2015 12:13:14 PM PST by tennmountainman ("Prophet Mountainman" Predicter Of All Things RINO...for a small pittance.)
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To: upchuck

Both are distractions. Neither is actually conservative in both the cultural and economic senses. Lindsay is just totally out of it.


10 posted on 01/18/2015 12:13:16 PM PST by arthurus
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To: upchuck

They are both positioning themselves for vice-president. And purposely working to split the non-jeb vote.

But they can dream on. Jeb’s vice-president pick will be Hillary.

Of course that means a year in he’ll have an unfortunate accident.


11 posted on 01/18/2015 12:15:42 PM PST by marron
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To: upchuck

Words fail me.

12 posted on 01/18/2015 12:17:52 PM PST by chris37 (heartless)
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To: upchuck

For some reason, I honestly do not think Lindsey is serious about running for and winning the presidency. I know nothing of him personally, but from his tv appearances, I never got the feeling that he had a Barn-Full of unbridled ambition, barely held in check.

I get that feeling, a fire in the belly, from Walker, Cruz, even now from our pal Mitt, and sadly, still from Santorum and Huckabee, both whose time may have passed. Lindsey always seemed content to do whatever his minder John McCain asked him to do or to appear to be doing. If Lindsay progresses with this plan, it may principally be as a ‘spoiler’. He will serve the role Newt Gingrich did last time, that of ruining the credibility of others in his own party, especially those who think ‘outside the box’ i.e. our ‘Favorite Canadian, Ted Cruz.’


13 posted on 01/18/2015 12:18:44 PM PST by lee martell
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To: Viennacon

Where’s Linda’s B.B.B. John McShame? I thought if John stopped to fast Linda would end up with dirty nose.


14 posted on 01/18/2015 12:25:35 PM PST by lostboy61 (Lock and Load and stand your ground!.)
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To: upchuck; sheana

This is a bribe payoff to Graham.

Since losing his gig with Fox, Huckabee is scampering about the Bible Belt raising funds and selling his books to pad his retirement.

Thanks to sheana:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3248142/posts?page=36#36

for the real story:

http://www.csmonitor.com/Business/Saving-Money/2012/1111/The-election-is-over.-What-happens-to-all-that-campaign-cash

“Alot of these politicians know they have no chance of winning. It’s all about the cash they can collect.”


15 posted on 01/18/2015 12:27:54 PM PST by Hostage (ARTICLE V)
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To: arthurus

Both should run. Just not for office.


16 posted on 01/18/2015 12:36:39 PM PST by Sasparilla (Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum)
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To: upchuck

Looks like all the RINOS are running. In true FREEPER style I have come up a hugh and series ACRONYM.
B.O.R.E.= Bring on the Rino Express
Get the cheese and whine. It’s going to be a very strange primary season
Freegards
LEX


17 posted on 01/18/2015 12:37:58 PM PST by lexington minuteman 1775
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To: tennmountainman
"No doubt Sweet Lindsey would hurt Romney or Bush.

Graham could also be the perfect block to a Tea Party type such as Cruz. Light in the Loafers could deny Cruz a win in SC and weaken his chances down the road in later primaries. McCain's bi**h has no chance of winning the nomination but could play the spoiler.

18 posted on 01/18/2015 12:40:23 PM PST by buckalfa (First time listener, long time caller.)
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To: upchuck

I welcome Linda. She will just siphon SC RINO votes away from Jeb!
Hucksterbee OTOH, is problematic. He attracts social conservative-leaning, but politically unsophisticated voters — particularly married women. Votes that might otherwise go to a more solid true Conservative.


19 posted on 01/18/2015 12:53:51 PM PST by rhinohunter (Freepers aren't booing -- they're yelling "Cruuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuz")
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To: upchuck
Looks like linda is thinking about tossing her Easter bonnet into the ring.

lol, that's precious.

20 posted on 01/18/2015 1:02:02 PM PST by Zuben Elgenubi (NOPe to GOPe)
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