Lindsey Graham says he will vote for Kavanaugh even if FBI links him to sexual assault

[Miles Archer]

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/09/minds-made-lindsey-graham-says-will-vote-kavanaugh-even-fbi-links-sexual-assault/

During an interview on 60 Minutes that is set to air Sunday night, Graham appeared with Republican Sen. John Kennedy of Louisiana.

Graham suggested that he had set the bar much higher for changing his mind.

“My mind’s made up about Brett Kavanaugh and it would take a dynamite accusation,” Graham opined. “Because, here’s the deal, Dr. Ford, I don’t know what happened but I know this, Brett denied it vigorously and everybody she named couldn’t verify it, it’s 36 years old.”

“I don’t see anything new changing [my mind],” he concluded.

[ffr]

1. Undermining his duty at every turn now.

He's sold his soul out.

[pangaia]

5. And screw 60 minutes for putting this shit face on their tee vee show...

And as for Lindsey,, right -SOMEBODY is squeezing the family jewels big time...

[dalton99a]

9. What family jewels?

[ProudLib72]

17. Exactly

He sold them a long time ago to Mitch, who then pawned them at the WH.

[pangaia]

21. My bad. :))))))

[RainCaster]

2. This clown has got to go

Any woman who would vote for him must be insane. WINO.

[BootinUp]

24. Exactly my thought.

[dalton99a]

3. "Brett was extremely strong and powerful in his denial"

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

36. "Putin was extremely strong and powerful in his denial of Russian interference"

So we are supposed to believe him. Based on a practiced stage voice.

[Corgigal]

4. You just care about power,

and whatever else Trump promised you.

It's not like you have daughters, even sons and never will. Sexual assault is not a crime that has ever concerned you. You were the AG in the military too. Those poor women during your tour.
I'm sorry active duty military when you were looking for justice and all you got was this clown. I wonder if the investigational journalists can get access to his former opinions in the military.

[pangaia]

7. Your last line !!!!!!!!!

[Hortensis]

33. Reportedly he wants to be AG, but he's also a major war hawk,

of course always has been, and he hopes to get close to Trump to finally turn be able to trade his hysterical warnings about imminent holocaust whenever something he doesn't like happens for military attacks. Very dangerous. Trump makes a lot of war noise but has been very timid so far about actually coming through on his bellicose threats.

NYMag: Reportedly Graham’s influence has waxed as that of Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman Bob Corker — soon to retire — has waned. And that worries some Republicans wary of how Graham encourages Trump’s impulsiveness:

“Lindsey Graham has been virtually wrong on every foreign policy decision in the last two decades. From Iraq to Libya to North Korea,” said a senior GOP congressional aide. “We would be at war with half the world if Lindsey had it his way.” ...

For all of the humor that Graham deploys in public and in private, and despite the hagiographical haze that has naturally enveloped his late friend John McCain, it remains true that the Three Amigos weren’t joking around about their determination to reshape the world with U.S. military force. That point of view was bad enough when it was being advanced during the administration of George W. Bush, who acknowledged some limits on U.S. power. For a president like Trump who seems obsessed with perceptions of strength and sometimes addicted to rage, it’s frightening.

From Woodward's book: "In September 2017, just days after President Donald Trump dubbed North Korean leader Kim Jong Un “little rocket man,” the president assembled his national security team at the White House to discuss U.S. policy toward the hermit kingdom …

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) attended, and offered a brazen suggestion for dealing with Kim. Graham recommended that Trump encourage the Chinese government to assassinate Kim and replace him with a North Korean general whom “they control.”

[MontanaMama]

6. Graham has something bigly

hanging over his head and Kav will help him out with it if confirmed. SC really needs to retire this guy.

[pecosbob]

8. ...and this comes as a surprise to one isolated person in Greenland.

[manor321]

10. We only care about the swing votes

Far too much attention is paid to this asshole.

[meadowlark5]

11. That's nice of 60 Minutes to give these two sycophants a platform to deliver their propaganda

Where is the democrat representation? Is there any or just these two Trump ass kissers?

[LonePirate]

12. This is Graham's admission that he is OK with sexual assault. He needs to be called on it repeatedly

[JHB]

13. So Lindsay's unfazed by his lying under oath...

It's taken as given he's unfazed by Kavanaugh's hissy-fit, since Lindsay regularly engages in his own, including at the hearing.

[Guilded Lilly]

14. Graham has made his position and character known. Quit showcasing him.

[Fatemah2774]

15. Graham Graham Graham

He will not change and so be it. I agree he is only one, focus on Murkowski and McCaskill, and Manchin. Maybe Flake or even Scott (the junior senator who will leave the Senate after his term.) will make the difference.

[hatrack]

26. McCaskill has already stated she is a NO vote

She issued a statement a couple of weeks ago, emphasizing his support for - or lack of willingness to restrict - dark money groups as a primary concern of hers.

Her Republican opponent, Josh Hawley, has enthusiastically embraced Kavanaugh and Trump.

[Paladin]

16. Graham is a sorry piece of trash. (nt)

[JaneQPublic]

18. Best way to describe Lindsey

[BootinUp]

19. And women will still vote the puke line?

[Itchinjim]

20. Translation: "I am being blackmailed like you wouldn't believe"

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

22. Guess he thinks it makes him look tough

Over compensating.

[stopbush]

23. What I would like to hear the interviewer say to Graham:

“I understand how difficult it must be for you as a closeted gay man to stay in the Republican Party. That would explain the severe case of the vapors you contracted on Thursday. I don’t see anything new changing my mind.”

[Freethinker65]

25. Keeping secrets and being willing to lie under oath about it impresses Lindsey.

No surprise there.

[IADEMO2004]

27. Not even lying to your sweet potato face will change your mind Sen Graham?

[MattP]

28. Is Fager still running 60 minutes? No liberals on tonight

We get one of the most Moderate Democratic Senators and 3 Republicans tonight

[safeinOhio]

29. His thinking about it.

Wishes he could go back in time and traded places with Dr. Ford.

[Hotler]

30. I think the man is dirty.

When you take a stand like that you're just a phone call, email away from someone ratting you out about some creepy thing you did or are doing. He is under pressure by his money people. I'm think that under the cover of politics DC is a sleazy, dirty town.

[Hortensis]

31. Reportedly Graham wants to be AG after Sessions, and

this kind of stuff is really being addressed to an audience of one.

Observers are reporting a huge change in Graham since McCain's death. He's become a conspicuously loyal Trump minion (a U.S. senator!), which he wasn't before under McCain's influence.

[greatauntoftriplets]

32. I'll LMAO if Spanky passes him over for AG when he fires Sessions.

[Zambero]

35. Yes, I imagine Rudy was also shocked

However, all servile conservatives must suck it up and support their dictator.

[SMC22307]

41. LOL Drumpf considers Sessions a "dumb Southerner"...

it's pathetic watching right-wing puppet Graham dance knowing Drumpf must consider him the same.

[Zambero]

34. And as Attorney General

He would push to end the Mueller probe, facts be damned. The perfect poodle for a corrupt and unhinged autocrat.

[spanone]

37. And that's the kind of human graham is....party over every fucking thing....

especially women.

[DeminPennswoods]

38. Wouldn't Sen Elizabeth Colbert Busch sound good?

just askin'...

[Achilleaze]

39. Graham's not doing his job. He needs to resign.

He's supposed to work for the citizens of the USA, not for the freaking KGOP republican party.

[DFW]

40. Graham would vote for Kavanawful BECAUSE of a sexual assault

I almost get the impression that Graham would especially appreciate being the object of such an assault.

But that's just speculation on my part........