Friday, March 5, 2010

This is why Lindsey Graham will win in 2014

Posted by Greg Hambrick on Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 1:41 PM

The story painted over the last several months has been one of Sen. Lindsey Graham in trouble with his own party for suggesting conservatives should take a seat at the table for reforms on immigration, energy, and detainees.

But there's a trump card that Graham is holding. One that will keep him in office as long as he wants to use it: Sen. Jim DeMint.

There's a reason that no serious candidates challenged Graham in 2008, when he'd already taken shots for his immigration stance and was openly supportive of energy reform.

DeMint stood by his fellow senator. With DeMint as the new "it" boy, his support may be more important than ever to promise a relatively quiet primary race in 2014.

In a report Today at The Hill, DeMint addressed the criticism from local Republicans who censured Graham late last year.


“I think he got a bad rap,” DeMint said when asked about the attacks on Graham back home. “There are a lot of people up here who are the problem, but it ain’t Lindsey Graham.”

“He is a player and he makes a difference and I don’t expect people to agree with me all the time because I am not always right,” he added.

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Wait, what year is it? 2010? And you're predicting whether there will be a serious primary challenge... In 2014?! Are you fucking serious? A lot can change in four years, to put it mildly. Look at how many people thought Hillary had the Democratic nomination sewn up just a year before Obama was made the nominee.

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Posted by Sark on March 5, 2010 at 2:50 PM

Jim DeMint doesn't parse words about wanting moderates out of his party. If he wasn't serious about supporting Lindsey Graham, he would have kept his mouth shut.

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Posted by Greg Hambrick on March 5, 2010 at 3:10 PM

sark--- Why do you have to use that kind of language. Maybe you have a limited vocabulary

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Posted by cajun on March 5, 2010 at 3:30 PM

If he gets appointed SecDef by Obama at the end of this year when Gates resigns, Lindsey won't even be running in 2014.

Lindsey Gaham is a player, all right. He's a downright gambler. He's going to be running for president in 2016. Yeah, I know: "AS IF!"

He wants the executive branch experience for his "resume" as he continues to reap all the "benefits" of reaching around the aisle to gain liberal support for his run.

He's already "semi-cool" among the college crowd--he thinks! He's building a political machine at taxpayer expense. He's creating a base for a run on the enviro-fascist youth vote and the neo-con perpetual war crowd.

He will be well financed if things go his way. So far, however, he's stepped in Climate Gate and refuses to wipe it off his shoes as he tracks all over the media stinking things up with his idiocy. He thinks all the mess will pay off for him if it gets him the SecDef nomination.

Gaham thinks he was paying close attention and learning the ropes during McCain's last presidential run. He has already put himself in a poll of half a dozen presidential hopefuls after the elections in 2008 where he, not at all unexpectedly, finished DEAD LAST.

There is a sociopathic need for power and acceptance demonstrated by South Carolina's Green Napoleon. If he has the discipline to keep his bone apart from others, he may actually avoid scandal which would put him in permanent political exile.

He won't survive the primary process, however. He is too arrogant even now to acknowledge the depth and breadth of hatred for him among GOP voters across the nation.

All the back-stabbing and self-aggrandizing reaching across party lines he's doing now just to make himself a Presidential contender is a complete and utter waste of effort on his part in addition to badly damaging our country. Narcissistic Gaham is incapable of seeing past his delusional dreams however.

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Posted by Tommy C on March 5, 2010 at 7:53 PM

If he votes for Cap and Tax he'll be recalled, before he can vote on amnesty...

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Posted by screddawg on March 6, 2010 at 7:31 AM

Lindsey Graham puts meaning to the term "RINO". I have contacted his office many times about his nonconservative views. I have never gotten an acceptable reply yet. I respect Jim DeMint and I hope he does not put any serious support behind Lindsey Graham. In my opinion this would hurt Jim Demint. Lindsey needs to be put out along with his RINO buddy, John McCain.

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Posted by Loejay on March 6, 2010 at 8:15 AM
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