Lindsey Graham, the New Heartthrob of Racist Assholes

[dalton99a]

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/02/us/politics/lindsey-graham-trump-midterms.html

What Happened to Lindsey Graham? He’s Become a Conservative ‘Rock Star’
By Sheryl Gay Stolberg
Nov. 2, 2018


Senator Lindsey Graham took photos with fans after speaking at a campaign event in Chesterfield, Mo. Nick Schnelle for The New York Times

CHESTERFIELD, Mo. — Senator Lindsey Graham’s bipartisan overtures — on immigration, foreign policy, even investigations of President Trump — once made him a darling of Democrats, a Republican dealmaker to be wooed to the center.

But when the South Carolina Republican turned up in this St. Louis suburb to campaign against a Democratic colleague, Claire McCaskill, the crowd of Trump-loving women and red-hatted men practically swooned, bathing in the reflected glow of the president they adore — who now adores Lindsey Graham.

Mr. Graham, crisscrossing the country to turn out the Republican vote against the centrist Democratic senators who were once his natural allies, lapped it up. He has been basking in the exaltation of Trump backers ever since his lacerating defense of Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh. His own transformation from Trump-basher to Trump defender seems complete.

Gone is the senator who once called the future president “the world’s biggest jackass” and a “race-baiting xenophobic religious bigot.” With an eye toward re-election in 2020 in a state still on the Trump Train, Mr. Graham has climbed into the locomotive.

“I stepped up,” he boasted in an interview, “and I’m getting rewarded for it by conservatives, and liberals are all upset.”

[Wounded Bear]

1. Liberals aren't upset, they're voting...

[beachbum bob]

2. I don't have a problem with sexual orientation. I do have a problem with people who lie and

mis-represent themselves like Lindsey Graham has. Do I have proof? Nope...but its out there. So why does this matter? He is up for re-election and we gotta hope the nutcase rightwing primaries him and uses his "gayness" to attack and possible beat him in the primary. That makes a democratic victory very possible 2020 which will be another blue wave election

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

4. Most folks in this day and age dont...

Doesnt the Alt-right though? Proud boys 'bi'-laws etc....such sliding scale hypocrites.

[peekaloo]

3. So essentially he's pulling a Trump Train.