The election is a week behind us and Lindsey Graham has six more years in the Senate. Because McCain lost we have no hope of Graham leaving to the AG so we’re stuck with him for. What does a good conservative do now?
What we do now is consistently apply pressure across the board. Graham feels confortable bucking his constituents because he had backing among RINOs across the GOP. We, as grassroots conservatives have to apply pressure first to our members of Congress to replace the inept leadership at the top. That means I’m contacting Congressman Henry Brown and telling him NOT to support Minority Leader Boehner in the House.
We’ve had two disastrous elections in a row and yet it appears the House it poised to retain the leadership that handed us those losses. We have a GOP that is still in denial. They continue to make excuses, apparently having learned nothing from the ‘06 and ‘08 elections. If the GOP has any hope at all of retaking anything in 2010, it depends on replacing the current leadership in both the House and Senate with solid ideological conservatives.
We grassroots conservatives have successfully flexed our muscles before. When President Bush tried to pass Harriet Meyers off on use we rose up en mass and put a stop to it. We have the power to do the same kind of thing now. If members of Congress are overwhelmed with phone calls, emails and faxes from their constituents demanding new leadership, they will listen.
The question is, do grassroots conservatives care enough to take action?
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Just today I received a letter from Senator Graham’s office in response to an email I sent him on the Cap and Trade legislation that went down to defeat last week. The letter is instructive and you can read it in PDF format here.
Notice the references to "climate change." The term "global warming" has become a political hot potato so scoundrels like Graham have adopted the less offensive "climate change" jargon. After all, no one disputes the reality of climate change. What the global warming crowd ignores (indeed refuses to admit) is that climate change has been going on for all of Earth’s history. There is zero evidence that man has anything to do with it or that we can do anything about it.
The short version is that Graham supports cap and trade and thinks it will be good for South Carolina!
Climate change legislation does present some potential economic benefits for our state and for manufacturing. Significant revenue generation from the cap and trade system will be devoted to the research and development of new clean energy technology. South Carolina has already established itself as a leader in the field.
So if we’re stuck with some kind of climate change legislation, why not let South Carolina profit from it? I’m all for South Carolina extending its research and manufacturing base but idiotic climate change legislation is not the way to do it!
So add global warming idiot to the list issues Lindsey Graham is wrong about. Just one more reason to vote against him tomorrow.
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Nothing would please me more than to shut this blog down Wednesday morning. For that to happen, of course, Lindsey Graham will have to lose the Republican primary on Tuesday. For all those who doubt he will, it is in your hands.
South Carolina conservatives are extremely unhappy with Senator Graham, and with good reason. Lets just recap some of the things Graham has done to earn our wrath.
Graham was involved in the "gang of 14," helping Democrats stop GOP leadership in the Senate from exercising the so called "nuclear option" to put an end to Democrats’ filibuster of Bush judicial nominations. Graham and McCain claim their actions resulted in a number of Bush nominees getting up or down votes. What they fail to mention is that all the nominees would have received up or down votes had Graham and McCain stayed out of it. They also claim credit for getting Roberts and Alito confirmed, a claim that is patently false and self serving.
Graham and McCain championed comprehensive immigration reform which included amnesty for illegal aliens. Both Graham and McCain claimed they did not support amnesty but amnesty is precisely what that legislation granted. When an illegal alien can get a perpetual green card with no requirement to do anything else ever, that is amnesty! When his constituents balked at the idea, Graham went before the National Council of LaRaza and called us bigots and said we should shut up! Graham loved to tell stories of legal immigrants and equate them with illegal aliens. He repeatedly and knowingly lied to the American people and to his constituents about the issue.
Graham has been a consistent media whore since he was elected. Hardly a weekend goes by that he’s not on some Sunday news program. Washington insiders joke that he’s run his own grandmother down if she got between him and a TV camera. It has been clear almost from the start that Graham’s ambition, like his ego, is huge and insatiable.
Graham’s campaign commercials, both on radio and TV, have been a model of how to misrepresent your record. Using all manner of facts, Graham has given the impression that he is a conservative when nothing could be further from the truth. When the rubber hits the road, Graham has not been there for this country, preferring instead to advance his own career. He truly is McCain’s Mini Me!
Tomorrow morning the polls open at 7:00 A.M. It is up to you and me to remove Graham and send a message to the Republican party that we will not tolerate RINOs. We will no longer give our support to people who claim to be conservative because of political expedience. We will not be taken for granted by our own party the way the Democrats have taken blacks for granted for decades. We will stand up and vote and kick the bastards out and Graham is next in line for that ass kicking. Let’s do it!!!
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The South Carolina Republican primary is Tuesday. If you are considering whether to vote for Lindsey Graham, consider the following newspaper article.
The Orangeburg Times Democrat quotes Graham as virtually calling himself McCain’s Mini Me.
“My re-election, I think, will benefit South Carolina because if he gets to be president, South Carolina’s interests will have a receptive audience due to our relationship,” Graham said in a recent interview. “I want to help him do the hard things.”
McCain recently made his first stop in the state since winning South Carolina’s January primary, and Graham pumped his fists in a cheer at a news conference when McCain said he’ll campaign again here later in the year. The next morning, over a grits, bacon and pancakes campaign breakfast, he talked about how he and McCain don’t toe the Grand Old Party line on immigration, Social Security, the war in Iraq or how judges are confirmed.
“John has risked his political career at least four times in the last two years that I can remember and I’ve got the scars to prove it,” Graham said. He’s been McCain’s wing man, noting he was in the room with McCain and President Bush when the president was convinced to add troops in Iraq while other Republicans “were running to the exit like the theater was on fire” and “coming up with one goofy idea after another” to get out of Iraq.
Can you believe Graham actually said, “I was in the room when…”? Sounds like high school stuff to me. And he openly points out how both he and McCain have bucked the GOP when it was the most important to be loyal. He’s actually proud of it which wonderfully illustrates how out of touch Graham is. He’s a RINO, pure and simple.
The same paper indicated that the Orangeburg Democrat Party expects a lot of Republicans to cross over to vote against Graham. Should Graham win the nomination I intend to do precisely that come November and I’m quite certain a lot of disgusted conservatives will do the same. So if you want two conservative South Carolina Republicans in the Senate, you should seriously consider voting for Buddy Witherspoon on Tuesday. Otherwise you’ll either get Graham again (who will almost certainly be in a McCain administration should McCain win the presidency, requiring a special election to replace Graham) or a Democrat.
It’s not worth it either way. Graham needs to be defeated Tuesday. He and all South Carolina RINOs need to see that conservative South Carolinians will not tolerate the kind of nonsense Graham has brought us. We have to show them that we can’t be run over or taken for granted. After all, that’s precisely what Graham is counting on. He thinks we have nowhere to go so we’ll vote for him no matter what he does or how he betrays us and this country. Are you prepared to reward him for that?
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Anyone paying attention is well aware that Lindsey Graham is John McCain’s mini me. Graham follows McCain around like a lost puppy. It makes me wonder just what Lindsey hopes to gain. Could he have higher aspirations? Certainly no one expects McCain to tap Graham as VP. That would be the kiss of death for McCain. Of course, he’s done stupider things before. But I don’t think that’s what Graham is angling for.
No, I think Graham want the AG post in a McCain administration. And if McCain is elected, I expect that’s precisely what will happen. Yet, Graham is busy running for re-election in South Carolina! That isn’t surprising of course. Lots of politicians do the same thing. It’s galling when it happens. The bottom line is, their ambition is far more important than their commitment to their constituents.
If you are planning to support Graham in his re-election bid, just remember that should McCain be successful in November, Graham isn’t likely to hang around South Carolina any longer. He’ll ditch this state and his constituents and the state of South Carolina will face the cost of another election to replace him.
In my view it makes far more sense to just go ahead and replace Graham now. It’s not like we’ll be losing much anyway. He has stabbed us in the back after all. So lets save ourselves a lot of trouble and just kick him out now. We’ll save money, the state will be better off and so will the country.
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