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SC Democrats: Out Of The Closet For Lindsey Graham

It’s no secret that U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham is not a “Republican.” Seriously … he supports tax hikes, unnecessary military entanglements and invasions of our personal liberty. Also he was the only GOP member of the entire U.S. Congress to back Barack Obama’s infamous cap and trade energy tax. In fact there’s an argument to…

It’s no secret that U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham is not a “Republican.” Seriously … he supports tax hikesunnecessary military entanglements and invasions of our personal liberty. Also he was the only GOP member of the entire U.S. Congress to back Barack Obama’s infamous cap and trade energy tax.

In fact there’s an argument to be made Lindsey Graham is more liberal than a lot of conservative Democrats in Washington, D.C.

That’s why this week’s decision by South Carolina’s junior U.S. Sen. Tim Scott to take a pass on endorsing Graham was no surprise.

What was surprising, though?

The full-throated endorsement of Graham by … wait for it … the South Carolina Democratic Party, which has been not-so-secretly backing his reelection bid for some time.

Well guess what, people … the donkeys are officially out of the closet.

In a press release sent to media following Scott’s non-endorsement, SCDP spokeswoman Kristin Sosanie referred to Scott as having “taken sides against common sense and pragmatism” by refusing to endorse Graham.

The release also specifically referred to Graham as “one of the few federal elected officials in South Carolina who actually works to try to get things done to help our state’s families and businesses instead of forcing a government shutdown.”

Wow …

Momentarily putting aside the fact that government “getting things done” is a major part of the problem, this sort of language is practically unheard of in the Palmetto State – where primary and general election battles are typically bloodsport.

Seriously … praise like this emanating from a “rival” party is typically only reserved for politicians at their funerals. It’s certainly not the sort of thing you expect to hear seven months away from an election.

Democrats have been telegraphing their support for Graham for some time now … including a recent social media meltdown by the party’s chairman against the lone Democrat who has filed paperwork against Graham.

Now they’re shouting their love for “liberal Lindsey” from the rooftops … and attacking any Republican who dares to oppose him.

Bizarre … at least until you realize what we’ve been saying all along, that there is no longer any real difference between the two major political parties.

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28 comments

venomachine November 21, 2013 at 11:48 am

You’ve been waiting to use the closet thing in a headline for a while, haven’t you?

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Eli Odell Jackson November 23, 2013 at 9:08 am

funnily enough Lindsay graham’s a weird lookin’ SOB who’s not married and has no kids and hes in his 50s….
just sayin’, and y’all know what I’m sayin’ I think

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Smirks November 21, 2013 at 11:50 am

This is brilliant! Everyone knows what the state of the Democrat Party in SC is. Maybe by endorsing Graham, they are secretly sabotaging him?

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Jesus H. Christ! November 21, 2013 at 5:12 pm

That’s what *I* think. Heck, I didn’t know the SCDC had it in them. :D

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Transparency November 21, 2013 at 12:16 pm

This is disgraceful. Easy to see why SCDP would oppose Jay Stamper, but there is nothing Democrats should like about Lindsey Graham. His warmongering, his attempts to cut Medicare and social security, his threats to hold up every Obama nominee over the fake Benghazi scandal… Man, this party is a wreck. A total joke.

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SCBlueWoman November 21, 2013 at 12:33 pm

Yet he is better than anyone else running on the GOP ticket. Hummmnnn.

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TontoBubbaGoldstein November 21, 2013 at 12:55 pm

WTF! Increased government spending and higher taxes don’t count as core Democratic values, anymore?

As far as warmongering goes…. Yeah,you’ve got the two Bushes (RINOs BTW!) but, hell, they were just getting with the Democratic program. You’ve got Wilson (WWI). FDR*(WWII), Truman (Korea), LBJ (Vietnam), Obama (Libya, Syria). It was Republicans, Ike and Nixon (TGB repeats, “NIXON!”) that got us out of Korea and Vietnam, respectively. If TBG wished to be snarky, he would even say that Reagan ended the Cold War.

*Yeah, I know, Pearl Harbor. But FDR wanted us in WWII for a loooong time before that.

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Transparency November 21, 2013 at 1:23 pm

I never said Republicans should like him. Democrats shouldn’t either.

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Mike at the Beach November 21, 2013 at 4:05 pm

…but you did repeat the “fake Benghazi scandal” dem / MSNBC talking point. You lost style points on that…

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Eli Odell Jackson November 23, 2013 at 9:15 am

should we have just surrendered in korea when the commies came? or when them gooks bombed our boat in Vietnam?
or maybe when the terrorist scum came and killed near 3,000 americans on our soil we should’ve just shrugged it off and said they got that right
you got that cerebral ronpaulsy on the brain buddy,
you can have whatever opinion you want on the Iraq war but please don’t go and rewrite history now… they hit us for six and murdered thousands, we had every right and durn responsibility to stick their heads on pikes and deep chicken fry em

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TontoBubbaGoldstein November 23, 2013 at 10:10 am

TBG’s point was that, contra to today’s popular thinking, historically it has been Democats rather than Republicans who involved us in wars (just or unjust) .

Even as a Ronulan, I laughed out loud at “cerebral ronpaulsy”.

Love your avatar, but did not quite understand your last sentence. Still early, though. Will reread, later.

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Eli Odell Jackson December 10, 2013 at 9:47 am

;) just having a bit of fun
I sure love a good turn of phrase, so God bless and have a fine day, your prognosis is delivered

euwe max November 21, 2013 at 12:30 pm

South Carolina – the end loaf of Political subtlety.

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Jeronimo November 21, 2013 at 12:31 pm

I happen to think Lindsey Graham is an asset to this state, despite his hawkishness.

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TontoBubbaGoldstein November 21, 2013 at 12:58 pm

TGB happens to think you are mistaken.

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SenseLikeChaps November 21, 2013 at 12:53 pm

Can you lay off the gay Graham ribbing? It isn’t just childish, it is stupid. We are the same state that elected James Henry Hammond; at least Graham keeps his sex life out of the public eye. Plenty of other things to give the Graham a hard time about.

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Billy K Mulligan November 21, 2013 at 12:53 pm

Who are these conservative Democrats in D.C.? Manchin is a big spender.

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Bill Buckleys Ghost November 21, 2013 at 4:36 pm

I remeber when you Republicans called George W Bush a “conservative,” a term which is increasingly MEANINGLESS.

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Chumley November 21, 2013 at 1:23 pm

Am I the only person that realized that, on Crossfire, Van Jones (yes, THAT Van Jones) referred to Graham as the “great” Lindsey Graham?

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MepkinPlantationDaze November 21, 2013 at 1:30 pm

Lindsey must be gay. You never see him with a woman. He is not known to date women. He is not dating a woman now. I think it would be honest and brave of him to come out and just be himself. It is not facts that do us in; it is the coverup that does us in.

Come out, Lindsey !

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Jesus H. Christ! November 21, 2013 at 4:46 pm

He supports military spending, corporate welfare, and panty-sniffing frivolous impeachments of Democratic Presidents.

In short, he is a goddamned Republican, which is why the Republican Party has given him big $$ for years and SC Republican voters have returned him to office time after time. You can say he’s “not a Republican” all you want, but that doesn’t make it so. Just because your Libertardian buds are too feckless, undisciplined, and lazy to build a creditable third party from the ground up doesn’t mean you get to define the existing parties.

That said, I am enjoying the Libertardian effort to hijack the GOP, since it’s resulting in the well-deserved fracturing of that party. Enjoy your permanent minority status, assholes.

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Jesus H. Christ! November 21, 2013 at 4:49 pm

Also, too, assuming your post can be believed, the SC Democratic Party displayed a genius I didn’t know it possessed in endorsing Graham. Kudos. Hehehehehe.

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Eli Odell Jackson November 23, 2013 at 9:10 am

you got a blasphemous name son

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TontoBubbaGoldstein November 23, 2013 at 10:18 am

You type like an effing cockroach.

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Eli Odell Jackson December 10, 2013 at 9:47 am

how’s a cockroach type like?

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TontoBubbaGoldstein December 10, 2013 at 10:00 am

Click on the link.

Short answer: No caps or punctuation. (Because a cockroach can’t press multiple keys at one time…)

Eli Odell Jackson December 10, 2013 at 11:10 am

and yet to type a ? I gotta stick down the shift button right?
also I stick ,’s all through my writing, misspelling what I’m like to misspell as I do
….
maybe I should TALK LIKE THIS?
THERE IS THAAT BETTER!?!

Joe White November 22, 2013 at 9:05 am

you bunch of democommies should be careful you know what they say about how to get rid of dingle berries don’t you???? shove a hand grenade up a demotraitor’s azz!!

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