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And Graham will now poll at one-half of a percent.
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Who? And what is he running for?
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Listen to this guy. He’s a really good strategic thinker. After all, he nailed that Iraq thing.
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Just give up and go home Senator Graham, it’s getting embarrassing. You are undeniably correct in your assessment but the GOP base doesn’t give a damn.
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I don’t understand why people like Graham who obviously understand WHY they are losing still continue and insist on taking the low road and the wrong path at almost every moral crossroads. You want your party to change? Don’t just work on Presidential candidates then. Get into Congress and lambast them too. The House is worse than the candidates in most instances and that’s every bit as damaging because your Party as a brand is absolutely synonymous with racism and intolerance.
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For someone who’s only solution to all problems this country faces is WAR at any cost, methinks Graham needs to look in the mirror to expand the number of reasons the GOoPers have such a hard time winning national elections.
If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail – Abraham Maslow
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Just a few months ago, Graham was on FOX or CNN’s Sunday talk show saying Obama needed to do something about ISIS before they come “and kill us all”. There is no danger of that happening and Graham knows it, but like so many establishment GOPers he’s happy to say anything, to say the most inflammatory shit about the president and Democrats, in order to advance his party’s agenda. He spouts fearmongering nonsense and then wonders why the base is angry and afraid, why they’re attracted to the most egregious carnival barkers. Well, look in the mirror, Senator. You made them that way.
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Step 1 don’t be lindsey graham, step 2 Benghazi, step 3 see step 1.
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It’s cute that he thinks the GOP still has a shot at winning this election.
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The winds the Trump ‘vane’ deflects blow from both parties, the GOP gusts, with their racist, elitist and violent spores are just more obvious even if they will lie fallow during this restless planting.
But the foolish and short-sighted SCOTUS decisions that took us directly to this Trump imbroglio, if left unchecked for a decimated GOP, have shown the path and sewn the seeds for a more successful brand of future American fascism.
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I couldn’t even get past the first paragraph of an article on Lindsey Graham, but at least I know his name and that he also ran.
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It remains to be seen, but I still believe Citizens United, particularly if the GOP sees a wave of insurgent candidates this next cycle, will ultimately be a net negative. CU took away the party’s ability to control the candidates and weed out the crazy. They paid for it in the 2010 Senate races, across the board in 2012, and cleaned up their act in 2014 as a result. But if Trump or Cruz is the nominee there’s going to be very little they can do to keep well-funded crazies out of the general election. I predict that if Democrats hold the WH and take back the Senate next year, do well in 2018, Republicans will be calling for campaign finance reform by 2020. They’ll do it for no other reason than to try to gain back some semblance of control over their party and their candidates.
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Could get worse if he doesn’t drop out in the next few weeks:
If a candidate wants to stay off the ballot for the Feb. 20 presidential primary, they have until Dec. 21 to get out of the race.
It’s set a potentially critical deadline for South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham, who will have to weigh whether it’s worth continuing his long shot presidential bid in the face of a potentially embarrassing showing in his home state.
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Maybe he should check out just what his party has put in its platform in the past and then wonder once again just why the party is having “trouble” … Trump and Cruz are just the logical extension of the party’s past behavior.
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The ones who want to continue the cocktail and prawn circuit, sure, but, somewhere, in a lavish, multi-room trailer-cardboard box split-level, on a guarded and heavily wooded compound, some wealthy neo Stalin wannabe will be oiling his weapons and chatting politics…
Once in a while, Butters says something halfway reasonable. Unfortunately, it’s overwhelmed by the 1000 dumb things he’s said earlier.
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Really? So tell us what “wind” is blowing the Trump vain from the Democratic Party please.
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Graham is up to 1% in the polling? That must be very encouraging to him!
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God help me but your “Really?” act is tiresome and needlessly argumentative however a specific dangerous wind from a leading Dem would be the thoughtless and endless money emails. I have appreciated the very occasional informational emails and several thank you emails from Robbie Mook that made no mention of money. But, for ordinary voters swimming in the Trump muddied waters, I think this endless money stuff grows increasingly problematic without an increase in info and contact.
Enough? Or, have I disappointed?
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