Lucy Graham Is at It Again
Lucy Graham (RINO-SC) is at it with his war with conservative Republicans again:
The morning after Republicans lost an upstate New York House seat, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) warned that conservative activists will bring destruction to the Republican Party if they drive out moderate candidates across the country.
“To those people who are pursuing purity, you’ll become a club not a party,” Graham told POLITICO in the Capitol Wednesday. “Those people who are trying to embrace conservatism in a thoughtful way that fits the region and the state and the district are going to do well. Conservativism is an asset. Blind ideology is not.”
Graham, who has sparred with his party’s right wing on issues ranging from climate change to Guantanamo Bay to Sonia Sotomayor’s Supreme Court nomination, warned that those concerned about the state of the GOP should help find candidates who are electable — not ones who adhere to a particular type of ideology. And he said that both the GOP nominee, Dede Scozzafava and the conservative party candidate Doug Hoffman were both out of the mainstream of the upstate New York district – which lead to the victory of Democrat Bill Owens Tuesday night.
Graham took issue with conservatives taking aim at Rep. Mike Castle (D-Del.), a moderate seeking Joe Biden’s old Senate seat next year, as well as conservatives looking to take out former businesswoman Carly Fiorina, the choice of Washington Republicans to challenge Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) in next year’s election.
Graham’s South Carolina colleague, Jim DeMint, backed Chuck DeVore, a conservative California state assemblyman who is running against Fiorina.
How the people of South Carolina could have re-elected this idiot RINO is beyond me.
Hat tip: Politico
Can’t we send this clown back to Mayberry?
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Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) warned that conservative activists will bring destruction to the Republican Party if they drive out moderate candidates across the country.
The lady doth protest too much, methinks.
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Filling in the vacuum created by the departure of Arlen Spector.
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“Filling in the vacuum created by the departure of Arlen Spector.”
Mullet, I believe the vacuum may be between Lucy’s ears.
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bc
We need to get 4 or 5 senate seats back so we don’t have to worry about his antics any more. Without the attention he can only attract by being a rogue, he will quickly become a non-issue.
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That’s right. We win back a half dozen senate seats with conservatives (including McCain’s) and we don’t have to worry about sweet and delicate Miss Lucy.
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Mullet, when going rogue fails to garner LG further attention, I have a feeling LG will next be going drag.
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You know the saying: Never believe your own hype.
Like all the moderates, Miss Lucy has far too high an opinion of herself….
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Heh. Yes, Miss Lucy could switch, except for 2 reasons:
1 he knows he can do more damage to conservatism as part of the R party, McCain knows this too, that’s why they’ll never switch….
2 He knows his career is over in SC the moment he switches.
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That’s another really annoying thing about Hoffman’s loss. It gives the Allahs and the Senator Lucys and the McCainFrums something to crow about.
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A bit off topic….
I was thinking about all the major players in today’s legislative agenda, and wonder how many of these laws would have good outcomes if term limits were in effect.
If senators were limited to 2 terms, and representatives were limited to even as many as 6 terms, the beltway would have sufficient turnover to get the money and power issues out of government.
Safe seats like Pelosi’s will be the reason democracy fails.
“When the people fear their government, you have tyranny. When the government fears the people, you have liberty.” ~ Thomas Jefferson
Says it all.
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Hoffman…
- didn’t live in the district
- didn’t have a good command of issues in the district
- had ZERO “presence”
- was in SINGLE digits in support!
Then Thompson, Palin and Pawlenty supported HIM to avoid a RINO who is to the Left of Pelosi from taking the district!
That Hoffman damn near DID take the district is an indicator of just how powerful the wave of supportfor him became.
Graham better watch his ass…we’re coming for it!
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Yes, but SCOTUS has found Termlimits unconst. I wish we had them, It’s consistent with what our founders intended.
We are supposed to have brains, and keep watch over their performance, and guard our liberties jealously.
We do not, hence the communism.
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just watched Michelle Bachman on Glenn Beck (with “the judge”)…DAMN, that woman is a PISTOL!!!
If I could get to Washington D.C. tomorrow I would. I thought about it even though it would have cost me 2 days work and $1,500!!! If ya’ll know anyone close to there, urge them to go the Capitol steps at Noon!!!
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Graham better watch his ass…we’re coming for it!
dood. please, that’s like, really gay, lol. NTTAWWT, of course.
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Napolitano for scotus.
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I’ll be harassing my rep’s office locally….
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Speaking of Frum, did you see that he is changing the name of his website from New Majority to Frum Forum? I guess Shorty finally figured out that you can’t have a majority with just 10 followers, half of whom are Democrats.
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JR -
Not that I noticed, but Michele Bachmann is not unattractive.
She and her husband had five children of their own and took in 23 foster children over the years.
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The model worked for over 200 years just the way the founders intended.
Separation of powers.
The people’s house standing for reelection every two years.
The deliberative body with 1/3 standing for reelection every two years.
Only the people’s apathy weakens the model to the point that men of evil intent circumvent the safeguards.
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Michelle Bachman is VERY good looking! And she is incredibly sharp and aggresive! POTUS?? That’d work!
as for Lucy Graham’s ass…geez rwy, it was a figure of speech! Been vacationing in Maine??
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I am annoyed that Lucy was re-elected last year. He even took umbrage at the fact he was primaried.
Get a clue, SC.
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rwy, as you and I discussed the other day, the time is fast approaching when THIS is the only “election” that will matter:
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I gotta stock up on pitchforks and torches!
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MB is all those things, and a tax attorney as well.
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Don’t forget the tar and feathers.
Chasing liberals like villagers after frankenstein.
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ip…one of my favorite screen shots from that movie! Captures the essence of what is sorely needed in D.C.!
Congressional Aide: “Madam Speaker…the American people want to have a word or two with you.”
Speaker Piglosi: “You handle it…I can’t be bothered!”
Congressional Aide: “They insist on delivering the message to YOU personally.”
Speaker Piglosi: “I can’t be bothered…take a message!”
Congressional Aide: “You don’t seem to understand, Madam Speaker…they’re outside NOW, and they’ve got lots of pitchforks, torches, tar and feathers!”
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Like most RINOs, Graham will “go rogue” against conservatives until it’s time for reelection. Follow ACU scores and you’ll see that RINOs become more liberal the longer they are in Congress (e.g. Lugar, Bennett, Coleman, Murkowski, Snowe, Collins).
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Don’t forget the tar and feathers.
~IP
Covers wrinkles and creases better than botox.
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How dumb is Michael Steele? on Greta he just referred to NR23 and Republicans having to choose betyween a conservative and a moderate. A moderate? Dede is a three-time loser: dumb, ugly and liberal.
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Professor Abraham Van Helsing fearlessly stalked Dracula…but I doubt even he would have had the courage to try and drive a stake through Piglosi’s heart! (ok…assumes facts not in evidence, namely that she HAS a heart!)
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once again the Dems and the media defined the terms of the debate. Scuzzy was and IS a full on Far Left kook! But the Dems have defined her as a Politically Moderate version of Mother Teresa. Game-set-match.
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Speaking of dumb, ugly and liberal, Susan Collins is on Greta now.
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Everyone is saying Scuzzyfinger was a moderate.
Bah!
She was far-left. Had she been a real social liberal and fiscal conservative, Hoffman would not have gotten more than 10%…
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Last night Lou Dobbs confronted a CNN reporter on his show who referred to Scazzafava as a modewrate. He said, “I’ve gone over her reecord and she looks like a liberal to me.”
Dobbs for Shep and name Whore-aldo thrown in as the player to be named later.
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#14 Yeah I am bummed too about not being able to go to DC tomorrow – I would loved to tear into some of those statists who want to usurp our individual rights!
I wish Bachman would have given a bit more notice to people to plan….
I could forgo the cash, hell even ok with losing the freaking job to defend our liberty but I cant change the laws of Physics and get my butt from where I am at to out there on a few days or so notice lol
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If you believe abortion is moderate,
If you believe expansion of the government is moderate,
If you believe in unsustainable spending is moderate,
If you believe in increased taxing to support that expansive government is moderate,
If you believe that the government knows best on medical coverage is moderate,
If you believe that unions should be able to coerce employees to join is moderate,
If you believe in amnesty for illegals is moderate,
If you believe in gay marriage is moderate,
And if you believe that elites in DC know better than you what is best for you is moderate,
Then dede is a moderate.
That is how you tie that POS and other liberal POS to who and what they are. Don’t let the MSM define the terms. Turn it around on them and show the public what MODERATE is to the MSM. It is not moderate but extreme left secularists.
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#20 The founders also did NOT allow for direct election of Senator either – the early 20th century progressives pushed that amendment….
I think that did HUGE damage to the nation as the Senators were then freed to pursue their own personal and political interest vice being accoutable for the interests of their states as a whole….
Do you think, for example, that North Dakota would have Dorgan and Conrad running amouk on HC?
Not likely….
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People like Graham never take the lead on any issue, they just go with what is least popular, thinking it will earn them some sort of “rouge points”.
Now he has to live up to the rogue image, so each of his “acts” must be more profound than the next. There is no telling what he will do next. . . .
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On Glenn Beck tonight the Judge told Michelle Bachman that he had heard Pelosi might try to stifle the gathering at the Capitol tomorrow. This is getting more like 1930s Germany every day!
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Mark Levin will be there to broadcast it if Pelosi tries that!
Rush will be on the air to spread the news .
Then TV tomorrow night will cover it.
At all the water coolers tomorrow.
On the web it will be at the top of memeorandum all day.
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Nazi Pelosi, indeed.
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INC – Rush is off tomorrow & friday. He will have guest hosts though.
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Uh, I hate to be the lone voice of disent on here but Graham and Newt have a point….
We need a center right coalition to win elections…..
A person who agrees with us 60-70% of the time is an ally not an enemy…..
One of the lessons of NY 23 was that “moderation” does have limits…..essentially, you can’t be a “moderate” on issues of individual rights and personal freedoms……and you should be fiscally conservative too….
Sorry, but as infuriating as moderates sometimes can be they are needed to successfully reach a majority status…..the difference is being discerning on what issues to moderate
Pat Toomey is a great example of a solid conservative who seems to be successfully moderating positions on some issue to boarded his support without selling convervative values down the river…..smart compromise in the direction of convervative values not total sellout to statist positions
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JM – You gonna run the feature post I emailed ya a couple days ago?
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good quote from Newt:
“However, all of us who oppose the Left need to realize that civil war within the GOP will reelect Barack Obama and make Nancy Pelosi speaker for life.
As pollster Frank Luntz said, “When the GOP is united, there is no state in America that we cannot win — even the most Democratic states like New Jersey. But when the GOP is divided, even the most Republican districts are in jeopardy.”
Building a unified, center-right coalition on a nationwide basis will be the greatest challenge Republicans face in the next three years.”
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Lucy is afraid of losing his job, and he rightfully should be.
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Well the 2×4 finally made contact with Newt’s head. He gets about as close as he possibly can without saying I screwed up on NY-23.
SOB.
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Yep, Wylie……had to put it for today.
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Wylie E. Coyote: “We need a center right coalition to win elections”
Amen. And you’re not the “lone voice of dissent” on that topic.
The problem is the meaning of the term: “Center“.
The Dems/media have re-defined the “Center” as just a half click to the Right of Mao Tse Tung and Karl Marx. No kidding.
Two days ago Andrea Mitchell described GEORGE SOROS as a “CENTRIST“!! They have re-striped the playing field and moved the goal posts!
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#52 Yeah, we can let the lunatics define “center”
The hard lefts definition of “center” appears to be leftists/statist/government interventionist policies that are “paid for” (read higher taxes or cuts in defense/law enforcement which are legitimate government functions) instead of a statist who simply runs up the debt!