Graham explains his pro-Trump conversion
By Aaron Blake
February 25 at 3:58 PM
... How could he go from calling Trump a “kook” who is “unfit for office” in 2016 to the guy who, in 2017, infamously attacked others for labeling Trump a “kook not fit to be president?” ...
Graham goes on to recount how his close friend and fellow sometimes-maverick in the Senate, the late senator John McCain (R-Ariz.), beat back a 2010 primary challenge by reinventing himself as “the most conservative member of the U.S. Senate.” Graham, who is up himself in 2020 and has faced his own primaries, added to Leibovich: “If you don’t want to get reelected, you’re in the wrong business” ...
... Graham is basically admitting his view of Trump has not changed appreciably. He is just doing this, after all, for his own political capital and reelection prospects.
And what’s more, it is telling that he feels the need to rationalize it. If he truly thought Trump was a great president and person, that would be a pretty simple answer ... I thought Trump was bad, but I was totally wrong, and now I support him. That would seem to be even better for his reelection prospects, because it would suggest his pro-Trump evolution was more heartfelt. Yet that is not what Graham’s saying; he is basically saying he is trying to make lemonade out of lemons ...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/02/25/lindsey-graham-explains-his-pro-trump-conversion-its-not-because-he-thinks-trump-is-great/?utm_term=.1c6e162a4676
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And he's a double-putz for using John McCain to try and clear his own shame.
