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struggle4progress

(118,290 posts)
Sat Feb 23, 2013, 05:53 PM Feb 2013

Senate Decisions Could Put Lindsey Graham's Seat At Risk

by Tamara Keith
February 23, 2013 5:32 AM

It seems Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham has done his best in recent weeks to get as much ink as possible, talking about things that play well with the conservatives in his home state of South Carolina, like Benghazi and gun rights.

Graham also held up the nomination of Chuck Hagel as defense secretary to get more answers about what happened in Benghazi, even as he admitted Hagel had nothing to do with it. But his opposition might have more to do with home state politics than the nomination itself.

Republican senators who have shown moderate leanings have been hit with primary challenges from the right recently, and while no serious challenger has emerged yet in South Carolina, there are a whole lot of people hoping one does ...

http://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics/2013/02/23/172746815/will-sen-lindsey-graham-be-the-next-republican-to-face-a-primary-challenger

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Senate Decisions Could Put Lindsey Graham's Seat At Risk (Original Post) struggle4progress Feb 2013 OP
I am just really glad to see a Senator to put his re-election above the Angry Dragon Feb 2013 #1
I would love to see Graham's Third Doctor Feb 2013 #2
Pure teabagger better than pretender LOL Blue4Texas Feb 2013 #6
Rabid Liars attacking Rabid Liars. Cha Feb 2013 #3
Boy you got that right. The right and the extreme right wouldn't recognize the truth southernyankeebelle Feb 2013 #4
K&R northoftheborder Feb 2013 #7
Graham's as unreasonable and obstructionist now as any teabagger who would replace him, so TwilightGardener Feb 2013 #5
Afraid of doing the correct things for this country because of being primaried?? A true statesman Filibuster Harry Feb 2013 #8

Angry Dragon

(36,693 posts)
1. I am just really glad to see a Senator to put his re-election above the
Sat Feb 23, 2013, 05:59 PM
Feb 2013

good of the country ........ we need more Senators like Lizzy

Third Doctor

(1,574 posts)
2. I would love to see Graham's
Sat Feb 23, 2013, 06:01 PM
Feb 2013

whining ass go down. I would prefer a good democrat but since this is SC I will take a rebup teanut from his own party.. This should happen to his buddy Mccain too.

 

southernyankeebelle

(11,304 posts)
4. Boy you got that right. The right and the extreme right wouldn't recognize the truth
Sat Feb 23, 2013, 06:17 PM
Feb 2013

if their tongue was notorized.

TwilightGardener

(46,416 posts)
5. Graham's as unreasonable and obstructionist now as any teabagger who would replace him, so
Sat Feb 23, 2013, 06:27 PM
Feb 2013

I truly hope the state of SC reaches deep into its bag of nuts for this race and picks a winner to replace him. I say, let the Party Of Stoopid reach new levels of crazy and dumb.

Filibuster Harry

(666 posts)
8. Afraid of doing the correct things for this country because of being primaried?? A true statesman
Sun Feb 24, 2013, 04:02 PM
Feb 2013

that the forefathers would be proud of. The Rs who keep mentioning the constitution are full of shit. The forefathers would never
be afraid of doing the correct thing for this country.

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