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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.


21 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....)
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To: tcrlaf

We’ve already had one wimp as president and that didn’t work out so well.


22 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.)
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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."


23 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."))
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To: Bridesheadfan

I believe he’d make a better “first lady”.


24 posted on 06/01/2015 8:28:36 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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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....


25 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....)
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To: tcrlaf

I think this is becoming all about speaker fees. “So and So, blah blah blah and former presidential candidate”...


26 posted on 06/01/2015 8:31:02 AM PDT by Codeflier (Bush, Clinton, Bush, Obama - 4 democrat presidents in a row and counting...)
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To: tcrlaf

Will McCain be the First Dude?


27 posted on 06/01/2015 8:31:15 AM PDT by RedMDer (Keep Free Republic Alive with YOUR Donations!)
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To: tcrlaf
If you think this has become a clown show now, just wait until Trump jumps in.


28 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...)
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To: tcrlaf

If you loved John McCain, and judging by the 2008 election results, you didn’t, you’ll love his spawn.


29 posted on 06/01/2015 8:32:07 AM PDT by Colonel_Flagg ("Politics is downstream from culture." -- Andrew Breitbart)
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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????

30 posted on 06/01/2015 8:32:36 AM PDT by Cementjungle
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To: tcrlaf

One thing I’m quite certain of—Graham’s first day as president will never occur.


31 posted on 06/01/2015 8:33:31 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: tcrlaf

Here's what I want you to say...

32 posted on 06/01/2015 8:34:14 AM PDT by McGruff (For Rent)
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To: tcrlaf

People in SC must be jumping with joy: they can now sidetrack their silly little primary.


33 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.)
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To: tcrlaf

I’m hope he isn’t our first female president.


34 posted on 06/01/2015 8:35:33 AM PDT by BykrBayb (Where there is life, there is hope. - Terri Schiavo ~ Þ)
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To: tcrlaf

Only crackas can have blood lust. /S


35 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."))
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To: tcrlaf
I haven't been this excited about a presidential candidate announcement since George Pataki.
36 posted on 06/01/2015 8:35:43 AM PDT by CaptainK (...please make it stop. Shake a can of pennies at it.)
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To: LostInBayport

LOL!


37 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."))
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To: tcrlaf

Well, he’d finally get that tiara....


38 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)
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To: tcrlaf

Another treasonous establishment puke running in the criminal organization called the GOP.


39 posted on 06/01/2015 8:39:07 AM PDT by Godebert
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To: tcrlaf

Apparently he is playing the John Kerry “I served in uniform” card (most of the GOP field has not)


40 posted on 06/01/2015 8:39:18 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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