WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina is wielding the gavel in the performance of his political life.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1337891
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1337891
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Graham is a lamprey and Donald holds the #kompromat. Fuck him.
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“After I got beaten like a dog, which he likes hearing,” Graham said of Trump, “he called me over to the White House and said, ‘I’d like you to help me.’ And I said, ‘I’d love to help you be a great president, because you’re now my president.'”
I hear Lindsey had a similar conversation with Obama 
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Lindsey was very, very critical of Trump before he became his toady. The hypocrisy is stunning. I only have two words for Lindsey Graham: Merrick Garland.
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Repulsive servile hypocrite.
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The Dems on the committee with Graham should use at least 20 seconds of their air time using carefully crafted language (think sounds bites) to remind everyone of Graham’s words four years ago regarding Merrick Garland, including that his words should be used against him.
That can lead to good clips Graham’s opponent can continue to use against him.
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Republican.
Yes we know
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One can only hope the whole occasion is deeply, viciously humiliating to Graham. And that he loses his election in a resounding defeat because of his lying, puling, hypocritical pandering to Trump. Ok. That’s enough adjectives. You get my drift. He graduated from deplorable to despicable a long time ago.
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Lindsey’s gonna hang himself with this. Count on it.
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We will never know that his holding those hearings were the deciding factor if he loses to Harrison but I really want to see him lose and spend the rest of his life trying to find rightwing teats to suck on. He is nothing if he loses his Senate seat and everyone knows that.
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Not the most important thing in the article, but this–
Harrison’s money doesn’t guarantee he’ll defeat Graham. In the final fundraising period of 2018, Texas Democrat Beto O’Rourke’s $38 million topped the amount raised by Republican Sen. Ted Cruz, who won their Senate race.
–is really an apples-to-oranges comparison. Texas is a more populous (and more expensive) state to campaign in, and O’Rourke didn’t lose by all that much. Money guarantees nothing, but the differences between the TX and SC races mean, to me, that Harrison has made and will make this race a whole lot more interesting than Graham wants it to be.
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OT.
I spend a great deal of time over many miles of residential streets walking a couple Aussie Shepherds. Older neighborhood, most homes 100+ years old. Mix of young and old, working and retired, family and singles, homeowners and rentals, affluent, middle income, and some working poor. Black, white and Hispanic. Conservative and Liberal and in between. Many religions. The entire gamut of humanity for the most part. I know all this through years of observation and casual conversations.
Now, I see a great many Biden/Harris yard signs on my walks. But little to no Trump signs. Yet I know damn well there are Trump voters in this neighborhood. I cover miles walking, over several city blocks in all directions. It is most definitely NOT an exclusively liberal/Biden area. But the paucity of Trump signs is striking. So, what gives?
Here’s what troubles me. We read of Trumpers that are essentially ashamed of their allegiance to him, and/or fearful of how they’ll be treated if they’re “out” about it. That possibility leads many to speculate Trump’s polls are inaccurate, because voters aren’t being honest about the fact they intend to vote for him. Therefore Trump has a lot of hidden support that isn’t being detected or reported.
If my observations on the ground mean anything it seems that’s a possibility. How else to explain the near absence of Trump signs in a very diverse neighborhood? A neighborhood where Biden loyalists have no trouble planting theirs?
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We can hope!
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There is no indication whatsoever that absolutely anything ever has been “humiliating” to Lindsey G. We’ll test that hypothesis in a few weeks if he loses to a black guy.
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Not to mention that Cruz only won by 2.3 percent, when it should have been double-digits as he had been polling before Scumbag arrived to “help out.”
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When people become too embarrassed to admit they are Republicans, they call themselves Independents and vote Republican just the same.
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Fair point. That’s why it would be so nice to see it happen. But then again, humiliation requires a moral sense and he sure doesn’t have that, so you may be right.
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Why is his black opponent allowed to travel anywhere or achieve anything in South Carolina? He’s not conservative.
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I would suggest that many former Trump supporters are now just that. Former supporters.
His deplorable base is fully baked in, but I think there are a lot of somewhat moderate Republican voters who voted for him in 2016, but have now had had enough of Donnie’s shitshow. Even if they may not vote for Biden, they won’t be voting for Donnie.
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It occurs to me now that Graham’s crack about POC being able to succeed in SC if they’re conservative and not progressive may be about all he’s got in his attack on Harrison that both evokes Harrison’s race and doesn’t sound overtly racist. But even so, there’s more than a little “the right kind”-ism embedded in that comment.
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