The Tea Party's Most Hated Presidential Hopeful?

[liberal N proud]

Hint: Not Hillary Clinton


The tea party hates South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham, and the feeling is mutual. It attacked the Republican lawmaker mercilessly during his Senate reelection campaign in 2014, but Graham held his seat with 55 percent of the vote. "Kicking the crap out of the tea party is the most fun Senator Lindsey Graham has ever had," wrote Molly Ball for The Atlantic last June after interviewing the South Carolina Republican on the eve of his primary election victory, when he faced six no-name challengers, one of them a tea party pick, in his deep red state's Republican primary.

On June 1, Graham plans to join the crowded GOP 2016 field, according to his preannouncement on Monday. And his soon-to-be presidential campaign raises the question: How will the Graham/tea pary feud continue?

The animosity between this three-term senator and tea partiers began before his 2014 reelection campaign, triggered in part by Graham's intermittent attempts to work with Democrats in the Senate. Such moves have enraged staunch conservatives. The Executive Committee of the South Carolina Republican Party compiled a list of 29 offenses that they "strongly disapprove of and hold to be fundamentally inconsistent with the principles of the South Carolina Republican Party." Right-wing blogs have nicknamed him "Flimsy Lindsey" and "Grahmnesty" because he disagreed with his party on climate change, immigration reform, and a few other hot-button Republican issues.

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/05/tea-party-lindsey-graham-conservative-2016


Graham is only a 3 term Senator?

[Erose999]

1. I don't get whats in it for him. It seems like Walker is the one the Kochs are grooming for the

establishment candidate. Graham is as tainted to the GOP base as Agent Orange or McTurtle. He has tremendous power as one of the few GOP legislators who do actual work, and his seat in his home state is fairly safe, but I just don't see him connecting with the kind of people who vote in GOP primaries.

[yeoman6987]

2. He was in the House of Representatives before that

It does seem like he has been in the Senate FOREVER!!!!!

[randome]

3. It's easy to understand.

He's in the GOP. Therefore he's delusional.
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