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VirginiaTarheel

(823 posts)
Mon Nov 5, 2012, 11:19 AM Nov 2012

Lindsey Graham apparently has a Clone or had Truth Serum Slipped into his Pepsi

"If I hear anybody say it was because Romney wasn't conservative enough I'm going to go nuts. We're not losing 95% of African-Americans and two-thirds of Hispanics and voters under 30 because we're not being hard-ass enough."

-- Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), quoted by Politico, saying that demographics would be the only reason for a hypothetical Mitt Romney loss Tuesday.

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Lindsey Graham apparently has a Clone or had Truth Serum Slipped into his Pepsi (Original Post) VirginiaTarheel Nov 2012 OP
body snatcher maybe? demhottie Nov 2012 #1
Apparently they have run out of angry white males!!! PsychProfessor Nov 2012 #2
Older, angry white males. apnu Nov 2012 #7
Nice to hear some truth from him Proud Liberal Dem Nov 2012 #3
hee hee ginnyinWI Nov 2012 #4
That won't play well with SC GOP VirginiaTarheel Nov 2012 #5
He's never been big on the TeaParty crazies emulatorloo Nov 2012 #6
Lindsey Graham is sane and occasionally decent. wildeyed Nov 2012 #8
Yeah he shows some sense every once in a blue, but then remembers he's from SC smorkingapple Nov 2012 #9

PsychProfessor

(204 posts)
2. Apparently they have run out of angry white males!!!
Mon Nov 5, 2012, 11:30 AM
Nov 2012

He is, of course, right. One almost wishes they had run Santorum. Then the far right pukes would see what a Real Landslide looks like!! They have every reason to recognize that they have rendered themselves irrelevant to national politics with their far far right primaries. But they won't get it. We can count on it.

apnu

(8,758 posts)
7. Older, angry white males.
Mon Nov 5, 2012, 12:24 PM
Nov 2012

I don't know any young person (in their 20s) that votes for conservatives. They're either voting for liberals or they aren't voting at all (because they are dumb, IMO). But they certainly aren't voting for conservatives. I also know only a handful of women who are voting Republican.

So I think the GOP's main voting blocks are "older" angry white males and the religious zealots and the 300 or so super-rich in America.

Proud Liberal Dem

(24,437 posts)
3. Nice to hear some truth from him
Mon Nov 5, 2012, 11:31 AM
Nov 2012

I'd almost feel sorry for them being left behind but then again they're not really trying to keep up with the times either- they have to keep performing for the knuckledraggers so that they don't get targeted for defeat in their next primary. They don't want to lose their cushy jobs and benefits.

wildeyed

(11,243 posts)
8. Lindsey Graham is sane and occasionally decent.
Mon Nov 5, 2012, 03:28 PM
Nov 2012

I disagree with him on almost everything policy-wise, but he came out against torture during Bush/Cheney too.

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