Posted on 07/18/2015 5:11:12 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
COLUMBIA, SC (WIS) -
Just hours after Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump made a controversial comment about 2008 presidential candidate John McCain's military record, South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham came out swinging in defense of McCain. Additional Links Trump on John McCain: 'I like people who weren't captured' The Latest: Rick Santorum favors curbs on legal immigration
Trump, in a campaign visit in Iowa, told a crowd of supporters he was not a fan of McCain.
He was a war hero because he was captured, Trump said. I like people who werent captured.
In a series of tweets posted to his Twitter account, Graham said McCain "went through hell" during his service in Vietnam when he was captured by the Viet Cong and didn't deserve that type of commentary.
"If there was ever any doubt that @realDonaldTrump should not be our commander in chief, this stupid statement should end all doubt," Graham said. "If there was ever any doubt that he should not be the #GOP standard bearer, his growing mountain of stupid statements should end all doubt."
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Graham, South Carolina's senior senator, is also running for president. The senator was one of McCain's staunchest supporters during the 2008 presidential campaign.
Trump announced his candidacy for president several weeks ago and has been surging in the polls recently.
I like the other day when one of the talking heads reminded him he only has 1% of the vote so far.
Less than 1%.
I thought Andrea Tantaros was gonna jump off the couch and choke Graham on Outnumbered the other day!
The next day Jesse Waters called him Grahamnesty, I thought all the girls were gonna spit their coffee out.
To you specifically? NO. Just commenting that I find it amusing that a queer is having a hissy fit, in an attempt to “protect” his “main Senatorial squeeze” (puke)
Looks like Trump and Franken are on the same page.
The other ladies in the knitting circle were simply beside themselves, as well.
Lindsey is making a mistake going after Trump. Trump will us blast him out of the water....
Too bad InSain would attack Dems like he does Repubs.
Pray Amercia is wakes
Lindsey Graham just wants to molest little boys. Let’s be honest. He just wants an uninterrupted stream of little Latin boys.
That freak does look like a pedophile!!
The court jester weighs in.
I am reminded of the scene in Blazing Saddles, near the end, with the dandy in tails beating on the old cowboy’s chest:
“Oh, you brute, you brute, you brute! Waaaaaaaaaaa!”
Linda is the dandy, for you in Rio Linda.
Graham is a nutcase....Trump is right McCain is a loser....just like Graham and Bush.
Of course he’s a pedophile, that’s what they do. Everything else is a lie.
Everyone should read Schanberg’s investigative report on McCain, which you link in your comment. Another excerpt from that report which is worth quoting:
“The Washington press corps had gone openly soft once before on the prisoner issue, again benefiting McCain. That was in 1991-93, during the proceedings of the Senate Select Committee on POW/MIA Affairs. McCain starred on that committee, working hand in hand with his new ally, Sen. John Kerry, the panels co-chairman, to play down voluminous evidence that sizeable numbers of men were still held alive after the prisoner return in 1973. One example: At the time of the committees hearings, the Pentagon had received more than 1,600 firsthand sightings of live American prisoners and nearly 14,000 secondhand reports. The intelligence officers who gathered these reports from refugees and other informants in the field described a large number of them as credible and so marked the reports. Some of the informants had been given lie-detector tests and passed.
But the Pentagons Defense Intelligence Agency, after reviewing all the reports, concluded that they do not constitute evidence that men were still alive at the time.
McCain and Kerry endorsed the Pentagons findings. They also treated both the Pentagon and the CIA more as the committees partners than as objects of its inquiry. As one committee staff investigator said, in a memo preserved from the period: Speaking for the other investigators, I can say we are sick and tired of this investigation being controlled by those we are supposedly investigating.
McCain stood out because he always showed up for the committee hearings where witnesses were going to talk about specific pieces of evidence. He would belittle and berate these witnesses, questioning their patriotism and otherwise scoffing at their credibility. All of this is on record in the National Archives.”
A picture of Graham’s childhood at age 9...:-)
What’s he doing? Waiving his purse?
Linda is acting like one of those little nuns in boxing gloves
Pow bam! He us vewwy vewwy angerey...
McCain is a reprehensible scumbag.
Oh no...Where was the outrage of that statement??
This
Came out swinging his pocket book?
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