KRAYDEN: Lindsey Graham: The RINO Who Keeps Telling You He’s Really a Principled Conservative

Human Events ^ | June 23, 2022 | David Krayden

[E. Pluribus Unum]

How many times will Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) convince us he’s a conservative and then run off into the sunset like the RINO he is? He’s done it again.

Graham was re-elected for the fourth time in 2020. And you know what it’s like to be a senator. You have 6 years to prepare for the next election. So it’s not like you have to hurry to get back to the electorate. Graham has plenty of time to reinvent himself. He’s running in what is probably the most conservative state in the union. It’s about 85% evangelical Christian. It was the first state to secede from the Union in December 1860 because it believed in states’ “rats.” Graham replaced one of the longest serving senators in history, the legendary Strom Thurmond, who headed the Dixiecrat Party in a 1948 run against President Harry Truman. Thurmond was one of the first high level Democrats to leave the party for the Republicans when the South moved into the GOP corner.

But Graham really confirmed the worst this week when he voted to pass a bipartisan gun control bill that critics say will gut the Second Amendment. According to a statement by the National Rifle Association, “The NRA will support legislation that improves school security, promotes mental health services, and helps reduce violent crime. However, we will oppose this gun control legislation because it falls short at every level. It does little to truly address violent crime while opening the door to unnecessary burdens on the exercise of Second Amendment freedom by law-abiding gun owners.”

As Human Events’ Senior Editor Jack Posobiec noted, there were “Zero tweets from @SeanHannity about Lindsey Graham joining the Democrats to sell out the 2nd Amendment.” Hannity has Graham on his show quite frequently. So frequently, you would...

[ronnie raygun]

Linda is a traitor, a used car salesman, a punk.

[Nextrush]

So Mr. Graham is a “Fakeservative” he’s been called “Lindsey Grahamesty” over unlimited immigraton.

Graham is a big supporter of jihadists overseas like the Al Qaeda followers fighting against the Syrian government and so on.

[Boomer]

We really must get back to appointing senators via the state’s legislature so they can be yanked out by the roots when they go rogue or turncoat like these 14 RINO’s did.

[Nextrush]

I consider my votes carefully I did vote for Romney in 2012 but after that I was willing to not vote for every Republican in the General Election.

My General Election votes top down average out 60-40 for GOP candidates. 40 percent of the time I do write-ins or just don’t vote at all when confronted with RINO’s in General Elections.

Like I said up to 60 percent of the time I will vote GOP in the General but not 100 percent of the time.

The message must be sent.

More freedom is essential and all the drama about “Mental Health” and Guns reminds us how tenuous our Consitutional Rights are.

I voted Trump in 2016 and 2020 still would today he is a catalyst for change.

But any RINO’S like Graham that Trump chooses to endorse will not get my vote.

Trump contradicts himself when he supports RINO’s like Katie Britt in Alabama.

[Nextrush]

I consider my votes carefully I did vote for Romney in 2012 but after that I was willing to not vote for every Republican in the General Election.

My General Election votes top down average out 60-40 for GOP candidates. 40 percent of the time I do write-ins or just don’t vote at all when confronted with RINO’s in General Elections.

Like I said up to 60 percent of the time I will vote GOP in the General but not 100 percent of the time.

The message must be sent.

More freedom is essential and all the drama about “Mental Health” and Guns reminds us how tenuous our Consitutional Rights are.

I voted Trump in 2016 and 2020 still would today he is a catalyst for change.

But any RINO’S like Graham that Trump chooses to endorse will not get my vote.

Trump contradicts himself when he supports RINO’s like Katie Britt in Alabama.

[BEJ]

People don’t really know that Lindsay is the KRAKEN. Oh, yeah man. The KRAKEN!

[If You Want It Fixed - Fix It]

Graham has principles like Biden follows any Catholic moral teaching.

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From the article:

Whether it’s Lindsey Graham, Mitch McConnell or a really pathetic Mitt Romney, these RINOs are all chronic liars. They pretend to be principled conservatives, stoic conservatives, but they’d sell their mothers for glue to make a political deal or to do what they have to do to stay alive or stay relevant. You see, ultimately it has nothing to do with principle. To hell with principle. Just a week before he voted to gut the Second Amendment, Graham was pledging to vote against the gun law compromise. Why was he doing that? Because that’s what his fans, his followers, his people wanted to hear. That’s what they expected him to do. Graham had no intention of following through and he knew it. He won’t be appearing on Hannity to explain why he voted in favor of the bill. He won’t appear on Fox News’ Tucker Carlson Tonight, because that host can’t stand the sight of him and will mercilessly skewer him for his hypocrisy.

[Dick Bachert]

It's PAST TIME TO RECALL THIS CLOWN!

[Zhang Fei]

He’s running in what is probably the most conservative state in the union.

The author is factually wrong. SC is one of the least right-wing among GOP-majority states. Trump won the state by under 12%. That's the bottom 1/4 of the victory margins among the states he won. That's how a Confederate flag-banning quisling like Nikki Haley retains her following in the state. Don't take my word for it. Check out the 2020 results table from Wikipedia. I've bolded the states won by the GOP:

Results by state^{[3][335][336]}

State or district	Biden/Harris Democratic			Trump/Pence Republican			Jorgensen/Cohen Libertarian			Hawkins/Walker Green			Others			Margin		Margin swing[l]	Total votes
	Votes	%	EV	Votes	%	EV	Votes	%	EV	Votes	%	EV	Votes	%	EV	Votes	%	%
Alab.	849,624	36.57%	–	1,441,170	62.03%	9	25,176	1.08%	–	[m]	[m]	–	7,312	0.31%	–	−591,546	−25.46%	2.27%	2,323,282
Alaska	153,778	42.77%	–	189,951	52.83%	3	8,897	2.47%	–	[n]	[n]	–	6,904	1.92%	–	−36,173	−10.06%	4.67%	359,530
Arizona	1,672,143	49.36%	11	1,661,686	49.06%	–	51,465	1.52%	–	1,557	0.05%	–	475	0.01%	–	10,457	0.31%	3.81%	3,387,326
Ark.	423,932	34.78%	–	760,647	62.40%	6	13,133	1.08%	–	2,980	0.24%	–	18,377	1.51%	–	−336,715	−27.62%	−0.70%	1,219,069
Calif.	11,110,250	63.48%	55	6,006,429	34.32%	–	187,895	1.07%	–	81,029	0.46%	–	115,278	0.66%	–	5,103,821	29.16%	−0.95%	17,500,881
Colo.	1,804,352	55.40%	9	1,364,607	41.90%	–	52,460	1.61%	–	8,986	0.28%	–	26,575	0.82%	–	439,745	13.50%	8.59%	3,256,980
Conn.	1,080,831	59.26%	7	714,717	39.19%	–	20,230	1.11%	–	7,538	0.41%	–	541	0.03%	–	366,114	20.07%	6.43%	1,823,857
Del.	296,268	58.74%	3	200,603	39.77%	–	5,000	0.99%	–	2,139	0.42%	–	336	0.07%	–	95,665	18.97%	7.60%	504,346
D.C.	317,323	92.15%	3	18,586	5.40%	–	2,036	0.59%	–	1,726	0.50%	–	4,685	1.36%	–	298,737	86.75%	−0.02%	344,356
Florida	5,297,045	47.86%	–	5,668,731	51.22%	29	70,324	0.64%	–	14,721	0.13%	–	16,635	0.15%	–	−371,686	−3.36%	−2.16%	11,067,456
Georgia	2,473,633	49.47%	16	2,461,854	49.24%	–	62,229	1.24%	–	1,013	0.02%	–	1,231	0.02%	–	11,779	0.24%	5.37%	4,999,960
Hawaii	366,130	63.73%	4	196,864	34.27%	–	5,539	0.96%	–	3,822	0.67%	–	2,114	0.37%	–	169,266	29.46%	−2.72%	574,469
Idaho	287,021	33.07%	–	554,119	63.84%	4	16,404	1.89%	–	407	0.05%	–	10,063	1.16%	–	−267,098	−30.77%	1.00%	868,014
Illinois	3,471,915	57.54%	20	2,446,891	40.55%	–	66,544	1.10%	–	30,494	0.51%	–	17,900	0.30%	–	1,025,024	16.99%	−0.08%	6,033,744
Indiana	1,242,416	40.96%	–	1,729,519	57.02%	11	59,232	1.95%	–	989	0.03%	–	965	0.03%	–	−487,103	−16.06%	3.11%	3,033,121
Iowa	759,061	44.89%	–	897,672	53.09%	6	19,637	1.16%	–	3,075	0.18%	–	11,426	0.68%	–	−138,611	−8.20%	1.21%	1,690,871
Kansas	570,323	41.56%	–	771,406	56.21%	6	30,574	2.23%	–	669[o]	0.05%[o]	–	1,014[o]	0.07%[o]	–	−201,083	−14.65%	5.95%	1,372,303
Ky.	772,474	36.15%	–	1,326,646	62.09%	8	26,234	1.23%	–	716	0.03%	–	10,698	0.50%	–	−554,172	−25.94%	3.90%	2,136,768
La.	856,034	39.85%	–	1,255,776	58.46%	8	21,645	1.01%	–	–	–	–	14,607	0.68%	–	−399,742	−18.61%	1.03%	2,148,062
Maine †	435,072	53.09%	2	360,737	44.02%	–	14,152	1.73%	–	8,230	1.00%	–	1,270	0.15%	–	74,335	9.07%	6.11%	819,461
ME-1	266,376	60.11%	1	164,045	37.02%	–	7,343	1.66%	–	4,654	1.05%	–	694	0.16%	–	102,331	23.09%	8.28%	443,112
ME-2	168,696	44.82%	–	196,692	52.26%	1	6,809	1.81%	–	3,576	0.95%	–	576	0.15%	–	−27,996	−7.44%	2.85%	376,349
Md.	1,985,023	65.36%	10	976,414	32.15%	–	33,488	1.10%	–	15,799	0.52%	–	26,306	0.87%	–	1,008,609	33.21%	6.79%	3,037,030
Mass.	2,382,202	65.60%	11	1,167,202	32.14%	–	47,013	1.29%	–	18,658	0.51%	–	16,327	0.45%	–	1,215,000	33.46%	6.26%	3,631,402
Mich.	2,804,040	50.62%	16	2,649,852	47.84%	–	60,381	1.09%	–	13,718	0.25%	–	11,311	0.20%	–	154,188	2.78%	3.01%	5,539,302
Minn.	1,717,077	52.40%	10	1,484,065	45.28%	–	34,976	1.07%	–	10,033	0.31%	–	31,020	0.95%	–	233,012	7.11%	5.59%	3,277,171
Miss.	539,398	41.06%	–	756,764	57.60%	6	8,026	0.61%	–	1,498	0.11%	–	8,073	0.61%	–	−217,366	−16.55%	1.28%	1,313,759
Mo.	1,253,014	41.41%	–	1,718,736	56.80%	10	41,205	1.36%	–	8,283	0.27%	–	4,724	0.16%	–	−465,722	−15.39%	3.25%	3,025,962
Mont.	244,786	40.55%	–	343,602	56.92%	3	15,252	2.53%	–	–	–	–	34	0.01%	–	−98,816	−16.37%	4.05%	603,674
Neb. †	374,583	39.17%	–	556,846	58.22%	2	20,283	2.12%	–	[m]	[m]	–	4,671	0.49%	–	−182,263	−19.06%	5.99%	956,383
NE-1	132,261	41.09%	–	180,290	56.01%	1	7,495	2.33%	–	[m]	[m]	–	1,840	0.57%	–	−48,029	−14.92%	5.80%	321,886
NE-2	176,468	51.95%	1	154,377	45.45%	–	6,909	2.03%	–	[m]	[m]	–	1,912	0.56%	–	22,091	6.50%	8.74%	339,666
NE-3	65,854	22.34%	–	222,179	75.36%	1	5,879	1.99%	–	[m]	[m]	–	919	0.31%	–	−156,325	−53.02%	1.17%	294,831
Nev.[p]	703,486	50.06%	6	669,890	47.67%	–	14,783	1.05%	–	–	–	–	17,217	1.23%	–	33,596	2.39%	−0.03%	1,405,376
N.H.	424,937	52.71%	4	365,660	45.36%	–	13,236	1.64%	–	217	0.03%	–	2,155	0.27%	–	59,277	7.35%	6.98%	806,205
N.J.[q]	2,608,335	57.33%	14	1,883,274	41.40%	–	31,677	0.70%	–	14,202	0.31%	–	11,865	0.26%	–	725,061	15.94%	1.84%	4,549,353
N.M.	501,614	54.29%	5	401,894	43.50%	–	12,585	1.36%	–	4,426	0.48%	–	3,446	0.37%	–	99,720	10.79%	2.58%	923,965
N.Y.[r]	5,230,985	60.86%	29	3,244,798	37.75%	–	60,234	0.70%	–	32,753	0.38%	–	26,056	0.30%	–	1,986,187	23.11%	0.62%	8,594,826
N.C.	2,684,292	48.59%	–	2,758,775	49.93%	15	48,678	0.88%	–	12,195	0.22%	–	20,864	0.38%	–	−74,483	−1.35%	2.31%	5,524,804
N.D.	114,902	31.76%	–	235,595	65.11%	3	9,393	2.60%	–	[m]	[m]	–	1,929	0.53%	–	−120,693	−33.36%	2.37%	361,819
Ohio	2,679,165	45.24%	–	3,154,834	53.27%	18	67,569	1.14%	–	18,812	0.32%	–	1,822	0.03%	–	−475,669	−8.03%	0.10%	5,922,202
Okla.	503,890	32.29%	–	1,020,280	65.37%	7	24,731	1.58%	–	–	–	–	11,798	0.76%	–	−516,390	−33.09%	3.99%	1,560,699
Oregon	1,340,383	56.45%	7	958,448	40.37%	–	41,582	1.75%	–	11,831	0.50%	–	22,077	0.93%	–	381,935	16.08%	5.10%	2,374,321
Pa.	3,458,229	50.01%	20	3,377,674	48.84%	–	79,380	1.15%	–	[s]	[s]	–	[s]	[s]	–	80,555	1.16%	1.88%	6,915,283
R.I.	307,486	59.39%	4	199,922	38.61%	–	5,053	0.98%	–	[m]	[m]	–	5,296	1.02%	–	107,564	20.77%	5.26%	517,757
S.C.	1,091,541	43.43%	–	1,385,103	55.11%	9	27,916	1.11%	–	6,907	0.27%	–	1,862	0.07%	–	−293,562	−11.68%	2.59%	2,513,329
S.D.	150,471	35.61%	–	261,043	61.77%	3	11,095	2.63%	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	−110,572	−26.16%	3.63%	422,609
Tenn.	1,143,711	37.45%	–	1,852,475	60.66%	11	29,877	0.98%	–	4,545	0.15%	–	23,243	0.76%	–	−708,764	−23.21%	2.80%	3,053,851
Texas[t]	5,259,126	46.48%	–	5,890,347	52.06%	38	126,243	1.12%	–	33,396	0.30%	–	5,944	0.05%	–	−631,221	−5.58%	3.41%	11,315,056
Utah	560,282	37.65%	–	865,140	58.13%	6	38,447	2.58%	–	5,053	0.34%	–	19,367	1.30%	–	−304,858	−20.48%	−2.40%	1,488,289
Vt.	242,820	66.09%	3	112,704	30.67%	–	3,608	0.98%	–	1,310	0.36%	–	6,986	1.90%	–	130,116	35.41%	9.00%	367,428
Va.	2,413,568	54.11%	13	1,962,430	44.00%	–	64,761	1.45%	–	[m]	[m]	–	19,765	0.44%	–	451,138	10.11%	4.79%	4,460,524
Wash.	2,369,612	57.97%	12	1,584,651	38.77%	–	80,500	1.97%	–	18,289	0.45%	–	34,579	0.85%	–	784,961	19.20%	3.49%	4,087,631
W.Va.	235,984	29.69%	–	545,382	68.62%	5	10,687	1.34%	–	2,599	0.33%	–	79	0.01%	–	−309,398	−38.93%	3.14%	794,731
Wis.	1,630,866	49.45%	10	1,610,184	48.82%	–	38,491	1.17%	–	1,089	0.03%	–	17,411	0.53%	–	20,682	0.63%	1.40%	3,298,041
Wyo.	73,491	26.55%	–	193,559	69.94%	3	5,768	2.08%	–	[m]	[m]	–	3,947	1.43%	–	−120,068	−43.38%	2.92%	276,765
Total	81,268,924	51.31%	306	74,216,154	46.86%	232	1,865,724	1.18%	–	405,035	0.26%	–	627,566	0.40%	–	7,052,770	4.45%	2.35%	158,383,403
	Biden/Harris Democratic			Trump/Pence Republican			Jorgensen/Cohen Libertarian			Hawkins/Walker Green			Others			Margin		Margin swing	Total votes

[tennmountainman]

Linda is no Conservative and is “Light” in the loafers.

[GOPJ]

How many times will Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) convince us he’s a conservative and then run off into the sunset like the RINO he is?

Fool me 50 times shame in him, fool me 500 times, shame on me.

That said, he's not as bad as Liz Cheney. And sometimes he's on our side. Should we trust Graham? Only to be Graham... never to be there on our side.

[Perseverando]

Miss Linda, the pride of the Palmetto State!

[Blue Collar Christian]

Principled conservative translates to woke RINO in my glossary.

[Brilliant]

All of the RINOs say that don’t they?