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5.16.08 @ 12:03AM

THEN THERE'S HIS FRIEND?
Re: Quin Hillyer's The Worst Republican Senator:

Quin, I agree with everything that you accuse Lindsey Graham of in your column. I agree that it is all bad, from a Republican standpoint. I do not, however, see that any of it is at any variance in the least with the stands and actions of John McCain in the Senate. In fact, I believe that you would be hard pressed to show that Graham was doing anything other than following McCain's lead. Where are your proofs that Lindsey was leading and McCain following on any of those issues.

I would argue that McCain was much more of a mover and shaker in the Gang of 14 than was Graham. I would argue that McCain was much more the leader when it came to the proposed closing of Gitmo, and the forced changing of interrogation techniques for terror detainees, and termination of rendition, etc. John McCain has given and is scheduled to give (I understand) speeches to the same Hispanic immigrant activist groups, stressing the same agenda, and same digs against Conservatives, as has Graham. It was McCain that dropped the F-bomb on Sen. Cornyn for daring to speak against the McCain-Kennedy Immigrant Reform (Amnesty) proposal. McCain is leading and Graham following on the ridiculous Global Warming Socialist fiasco that his pal Al Gore is married to.

Quin, I would argue that Lindsey is doing nothing more than carrying McCain's water for him. As I see it, the one issue where Lindsey truly MAY have stepped out ahead of McCain was the battle to defeat Jim Haynes for a spot on the 4th Circuit. And what does all this get Graham? Why it gets him the Attorney General slot in a McCain administration, I would imagine. That and/or a Supreme Court nomination from Big John.

Just as an aside, how is Graham and/or McCain worse than Hagel, or Snowe, or a handful of others. I would opine that it is a mighty close race indeed, and at best it would require a photo to determine the order of finish.

Of course I realize that I am supposed to now go out and reward McCain (and all his buddies like Graham) by helping promote him to the White House. In a pig's rectum. May the fleas of a thousand camel infest all their...er, um, armpits.
-- Ken Shreve

Thanks to Quin Hillyer for the excellent article on Senator Graham. Is there any reason why we should believe that he will not be President McCain's Attorney General?
-- Jerry Magri

Senator Lindsey Graham's battering at the capable hands of Quin Hillyer is more than well deserved. I've often been amazed that a major news network like Fox, and particularly Sean Hannity, when pressed to bring out a "conservative" to discuss a major political news item, sought out Graham, who would stumble-bum his way through the discussion. Then the good Senator would turn around and do something mindless like participate in the "Gang of 14."

I do note, however, that Graham hasn't appeared on Fox in some time (as far as I've been able to deduce). Perhaps someone at the network came to realize what a total fraud this man is?
-- Jim Bjaloncik
Stow, Ohio

If Lindsey Graham really thinks that Ted Kennedy is one of the most principled men he has ever met then it is a crying shame that he wasn't in the same car that Kennedy was driving in 1969. Who needs somebody so lacking in judgment. Bring on the Great GOP Defeat of '08 and send McCain, Graham and their fellow losers and turncoats packing once and for all.
-- Christopher Holland
Australia

Quin Hillyer's article on Sen. Lindsey Graham is the first good description I have seen about Graham's positions. I hope you will continue to expose him and his attitudes which are detrimental to sound conservative positions.
-- Tom Parvin
Plano, Texas

MORONS CONFINED TO QUARTERS
Re: R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.'s Turning Voters into Morons:

Was R. Emmett Tyrrell trying to make conservatives feel better by saying John McCain "is only wrong on one" of the four issues that animate the moron vote?

25% moron is hardly inspiring.
-- Arnold Ahlert
Boca Raton, Florida

When it comes to the general intelligence of the electorate and the "moron vote," one is wise to recall the words of Nicolas M. Butler, "An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less." We the expert voters end up with an even more expert Congress.
-- Ira M. Kessel
Rochester, New York

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