What is Lindsey Graham up to? First he praises Rahm and now Hillary

[Thrill]

In an interview on Friday, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), a close confidante of Sen. John McCain's, said Clinton would be an excellent choice and easily confirmed by the Senate for the post. "I thought she was going to come back to the Senate. Who knows?" Graham said.

"She'll easily be confirmed if she gets chosen," Graham said. "That kinda surprised me, but she wouldn't be a bad choice at all. If she were chosen, she has the portfolio and the skills that would make her uniquely qualified for the job

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/11/14/clinton_top_contender_for_secr.html?hpid=topnews

This is just plain weird coming from this weasel

[RollWithIt]

1. Check his bio, Navy Jag Lawyer, people like him are the only hope the Republican Party has left...

Reason. In short supply on the GOP side. He's one of the few who has some.

[FarCenter]

20. Maybe Attorney General to straighten out the Guantanamo legal mess

[mwei924]

2. He doesn't want to piss off the people in power.

[BrklynLiberal]

3. Maybe he no longer feels the pressure of BushCo, and can express his true

opinions instead of the repuke talking points.

[onager]

4. Sleazy opportunist and liar

Of course, that makes him eminently qualified to be a Senator. But I digress...

BTW, Graham's voting record in Congress is 90 per cent hard-core conservative. The same as his idol, Strom Thurmond.

And Graham is currently campaigning with McCain and ZELL MILLER!!! for Saxby Chambliss in Georgia:

McCain and Chambliss were joined Thursday by Sens. Johnny Isakson, R-Ga., and Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., and former Georgia senator Zell Miller. "Saxby could be the last man standing between a far-left liberal agenda sailing through the United States Senate," Miller said.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/election2008/2008-11-13-mccain_N.htm?csp=34

Sleazy Opportunist: the anecdote that captures Graham perfectly is in Sidney Blumenthal's book The Clinton Wars.

Elderly DU'ers may remember that Graham, then a newly-elected GOP Rep. from South Carolina, hopped on the anti-Clinton dung-wagon early and clung to it with both hands.

My memory is a little hazy on the details. But in Blumenthal's book, there's a scene where Graham interrogates Hillary Clinton in one of her numberless appearances before those House Witch-Hunting Committees.

Graham flayed her alive, alternating between his faux-folksy Strom Thurmond Jr. persona and his Inner Torquemada.

And after it was all over, he went up to Hillary and asked if he could be involved with some piece of legislation the Clintons were promoting. He knew it was popular and wanted his name attached to it.

IIRC, Blumenthal heard this exchange. No stranger to sleazy politics himself, Blumenthal was dumbfounded by Graham's sheer gall and naked opportunism.

Liar: from an unimpeachable source--my mother, who lives very close to Lindsey Graham in Upstate SC.

Graham is in his 50's and has never been married. During his first run for Congress, he was squiring an attractive young woman around the state on his campaign stops. Graham never introduced her, but most folks assumed she was his wife.

She was his niece.

In his next campaign, he had an unattractive woman hanging on his arm. That was right-wing radio hag Laura Ingraham, who at that time wasn't as famous as she would be later.

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5. You nailed him. I hate that that guy is from my state. nt

[onager]

6. I grew up in Oconee County.

:hi:

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16. .

:hi:

[H2O Man]

11. Right.

And that's his good side.

[angee_is_mad]

7. Scared a credible Black South Carolinian

will run against his ass and get all the black folks down there amped up. He's trying to make nice with as many dems as possible, so he can say he has reached across rthe Funking aisle !!!!

That has to be a white, southern republican worst nightmare. To lose to a black person in the dirty south. In the 21st century anything is possible. Hell, the United States of America elected a Black man named Barack Hussein Obama as President:toast:

[Beacool]

8. LIndsey Graham and Sam Brownback, despite being two of the most conservative senators,

like Hillary. They both apologized to her for their behavior during the impeachment and have said that she has the qualifications to be president (at the time when the primaries started). There is a long history of senators from opposing parties being on friendly terms and even becoming close friends. Graham and Hillary serve in the Armed Services Committee and, along with McCain, have traveled overseas together on various occasions.

[bridgit]

9. Just groveling, he's about to be marginalized and he knows it; knows Obama, Rahm, Axelrod...

and most every other Dem has had quite enough of his brand of pissy shit and he & his ilk are going to be on the outside looking in for a long time. This ain't some cracker barrel/bait shop in S.C. bless their hearts. America *is* bigger than they thought all along; this is ChiTown coming at these duuphs and to his credit Graham sees it coming he's at least that smart

[olegramps]

10. I can't stand that weasel rat-faced KKK fascist creep.

[mmonk]

12. It might be where in them he sees some opportunity

in leaving some stucture left to the current foreign and domestic power in place in terms of slant as well as a firewall into heading off probes of more civil libertarian inquiries into the past 7-8 years.

[mascarax]

13. Lindsey thought "Joe the Plumber" was a great idea too

And encouraged it.

I really have no comment on the SoS, but I just can't stand this guy...

[ncteechur]

14. Back in his closet crying that he can't be secretary of something in a

McCain administration.

[Medusa]

15. Story is that he and Rahm worked together on setting up the

debates and they really like one another. Graham has had a history of crossing the aisle for support and it's true he and HRC like one another. He's a Repug at heart of course but at least he's willing to talk with our side.

[DCBob]

17. The wacko wingnut talk show hosts are totally pissed at Lindsay Gramnesty.

They think he and McCain in cahoots with Obama, are going to revive immigration reform -- and they are probably right.

[L0oniX]

18. I hate that mutha fuckin piece of shit n/t

[Catshrink]

19. Maybe Miss Lindsey is trying to rebuild bridges

that he tried to destroy during the campaign. As others have said, he's an opportunist.