After Once Defending Cheney, Graham Now Abandons Her: Insists GOP ‘Can’t Grow’ Without Trump | Talking Points Memo

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) who just months ago lauded Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) as one of the “strongest and most reliable conservative voices in the Republican Party,” is now abandoning  the third-ranking House Republican who refuses to back down from calling on her colleagues to reject former President Donald Trump and his crusade against democracy. 


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What percentage of the popular vote did Trump get? And Lindsey thinks they can’t survive without him. SMH

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And with that, the GOP is officially a COPD.

Cult of Personality Disorder.

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Can we get some footage of Lindsey windsurfing?
It worked to sell the meme of Kerry as a flip flopper, so it should do as well with the real thing.

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I am happy to report that the Republican’ts Party will shrink into oblivion as these sycophants continue their adoration of 45*, and do not put his hate speech behind them. He is an albatross that will sink his party.

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Whatever Trump has on Graham, it must be a doozy.
Lindsey, you’re a dead man walking.

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I’m so old I remember when Lindsey said he was done with Donnie just months ago.

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I have to assume that this means he got a reminder clip of whatever it is that they have on him.
The “leadership” of the party is really trying to get rid of Cheney. It reminds me of the scene in Animal Farm when they send Boxer to the knacker.

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Lindsey to Donald “I can’t quit you”.

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Lindz abandons Liz??

Quelle surprise… :yawning_face:

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So here’s the question: is the GOP correct to think they need to continue to appeal to the Trump base? This behavior won’t stop if/when/until they think it won’t benefit them.

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Dictionary

ser·vile

/ˈsərvəl,ˈsərˌvīl/

adjective

having or showing an excessive willingness to serve or please others.

“he bowed his head in a servile manner”

Similar:

obsequious

sycophantic

excessively deferential

subservient

fawning

toadying

ingratiating

unctuous

oily

oleaginous

greasy

groveling

cringing

toadyish

slavish

abject

craven

humble

Uriah Heepish

self-abasing

slimy

bootlicking

smarmy

sucky

cringey

soapy

forelock-tugging

brown-nosing

apple-polishing

vulgar slang

arse-licking

bum-sucking

kiss-ass

ass-kissing

Opposite:

bossy

assertive

of or characteristic of a slave or slaves.

“the servile condition of the peasants”

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Excuse me, Senator, not to embarrass you but you have an apostrophe and a “t” on your mouth that I don’t think you meant to be there. Here, let me punch them off for you.

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When we find out what ‘hold’ Trump has over Lindsey it will be a ‘scandal’…this is amazing.

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Trump Republican Party

There it is. The wart on the anus of US politics

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Yes, based on his behavior since the infamous golf game, this is no surprise at all. To be expected, actually.

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Lindsay made the determination that his money-raising apparatus, formal known as a conservative advocacy organization or a “political party”, cannot maintain quarterly growth without a crap-flinging psychopath filling the coffers.

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“I would just say to my Republican colleagues, can we move forward without President Trump? The answer is no,”

“I’ve always liked Liz Cheney, but she’s made the determination that the Republican party can’t grow with President Trump. I’ve determined we can’t grow without him,”

Jeez. How sad is that?!

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Can we get some footage of Lindsey windsurfing?
It worked to sell the meme of Kerry as a flip flopper, so it should do as well with the real thing.

The wind doesn’t change that fast.

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Pathetic!

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