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By Aaron Blake
February 25 at 3:58 PM
... How could he go from calling Trump a kook who is unfit for office in 2016 to the guy who, in 2017, infamously attacked others for labeling Trump a kook not fit to be president? ...
Graham goes on to recount how his close friend and fellow sometimes-maverick in the Senate, the late senator John McCain (R-Ariz.), beat back a 2010 primary challenge by reinventing himself as the most conservative member of the U.S. Senate. Graham, who is up himself in 2020 and has faced his own primaries, added to Leibovich: If you dont want to get reelected, youre in the wrong business ...
... Graham is basically admitting his view of Trump has not changed appreciably. He is just doing this, after all, for his own political capital and reelection prospects.
And whats more, it is telling that he feels the need to rationalize it. If he truly thought Trump was a great president and person, that would be a pretty simple answer ... I thought Trump was bad, but I was totally wrong, and now I support him. That would seem to be even better for his reelection prospects, because it would suggest his pro-Trump evolution was more heartfelt. Yet that is not what Grahams saying; he is basically saying he is trying to make lemonade out of lemons ...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/02/25/lindsey-graham-explains-his-pro-trump-conversion-its-not-because-he-thinks-trump-is-great/?utm_term=.1c6e162a4676
elleng
(130,907 posts)struggle4progress
(118,282 posts)gohuskies
(1,156 posts)Truly a sellout and self centered traitor to the nation.
NRaleighLiberal
(60,014 posts)Wounded Bear
(58,656 posts)Groucho Marx about acting, but apparently it applies to politics, too.
Volaris
(10,271 posts)Being the only 2 businesses where you can fail UP.
IluvPitties
(3,181 posts)of the snake that fooled Adam and Eve.
FakeNoose
(32,639 posts)And he's a double-putz for using John McCain to try and clear his own shame.
BlueintheSTL
(135 posts)He has always been a schmuck. He just more open about it now.
DeminPennswoods
(15,286 posts)want to get elected and then re-elected. Shouldn't they want jobs in their beloved private business sector instead?
sinkingfeeling
(51,457 posts)RainCaster
(10,874 posts)What did they find in those RNC emails that turned him so against the people who elected him?
shanny
(6,709 posts)re-election is the goal, not service to the nation, or even their constituents, when their constituents disagree with the money people.
how many others fit that description?