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Siegfried X| 7.22.09 @ 5:35PM

Graham is playing the Specter game. Same thing Specter did as a Republican, talk conservative, vote liberal.

I stand by my prediction of at least half the Republican senators voting for Sotomayor. Then when running for reelection they'll ask for our votes and money so they can stop liberal judicial appointments.

jr| 7.22.09 @ 6:01PM

What does John McShame call Graham -- little t*rd, runt or pipsqueak? He is one of McShames two pals, Liberalman and Graham. McShame just voted to kill the F22. One blow to put our military in the same stance as did the Bent One. Yes, Graham cracker is playing the odds that he will get in good with the leftists-marxists and survive the next election. Wants to count on the libs, females, young voters, blacks and hispanics to vote for him. Someone please tell him he is a registered Republican and those people will not vote Republican. Lindsey, McShames boots are dirty, get the to shine.

B. Johnson| 7.22.09 @ 8:00PM

Supporting Judge Sotomayor for USSC is good litmus test that Senator Graham either doesn't know the Constitution that he has sworn to defend, or is outright ignoring it. Same argument applies to the guy that nominated Judge Sotomayor to the USSC in the first place.

bigskybob| 7.22.09 @ 9:00PM

This is a highly hypocritical accusation by Quin Hillyer given his association with "Redstate" and the website "confirm them."

The Republican party is a fraud perpetrated upon conservatives. It is a moderate-to-liberal Bush party that pretends to be Reaganite. One of the worse frauds perpetrated is the attempt to deceive pro-life folk that they are trying to "overturn" Roe, when in fact they are actively
working to uphold Roe. The strategy is simple enough: allow the Democrats to kill all pro-life nominees, tell actual conservatives that this means that "we pro-lifers" must support "stealth" nominees; dutifully nominate pro-Roe "stealth" candidates; deny any responsibility for the process; and then ask pro-life folk to work harder on the behalf of pro-abortion Republicans, all the time trying to stoke up "Democratic obstructionism" as a red-meat issue to rally pro-life conservatives to vote for pro-abortion Republicans.

The solution to the judicial problem is trivially simple: have all 40 Republican fillibuster her as a matter of party loyality, with the understanding that the leadership will break the same fillibuster by having every Republican vote unanimously to a change of the Senate rules disallowing judicial fillibusters. Good luck trying to have Kennedy and Byrd rise from their death beds on the same day!

Right now, it takes fifty votes to nominate someone who is pro-choice, and sixty to nominate someone who is pro-life. The situation exists, today, simply because both parties prefer it that way.

This raises the obvious question: does Quin Hillyer really want Roe overturned? Or is he simply part-and-parcel of the same fraud against the pro-life?

Did I mention how Redstate was dedicated to purging Ron Paul supporters, when Ron Paul was 100% in agreement with the likes of Hillyer on issues such as "judicial restraint," the wrongness of Roe, etc?

austin personal trainer| 7.22.09 @ 9:46PM

Graham is as equivocal as McCain. That is why they are buds.

Spicy Joker| 7.23.09 @ 1:00AM

Lindsay Graham cares more about being the media's new favorite Republican (now that McCain is persona non grata for daring to run against the Messiah) than about his own constituents. He is a disgrace.

l.Ron.Hubris| 7.23.09 @ 5:36AM

At some point the good people of S.C. will turn out this girly man

Rod Stanton| 7.23.09 @ 7:29AM

Liberal liars like Lindsay, GWB, Rove and McC(not Stacy) have "led the GOP to two masacres in 2 elections! They have lied to us about being conservative over and over for 7 years. Americans stopped buying their lies 5 years ago;but Rove et al think we are so dumb they keep on telling the same lies over again thinking we will buy it. The Gop has lost 26% in Congress in the last 2 elections! Yet they seem to want to lose even more!

The Tea Party folk understand. They have booed several liberal Republican foolish enough to show up at a tea party. It would maybe be better if Rove et al would be honest and say "we are more true to Marx than the Dems". At least people would not be as mad as they are at the GOP. Most still would not vote GOP but there is somethin to be said for honesty!

Quin| 7.23.09 @ 10:10AM

I am confused by bigskybob's comments. Why does my affiliation with ConfirmThem disqualify me from criticizing Graham?
I am not part of the management of RedState, and know nothing whatsoever about any "purge" of Ron Paul supporters?
And yes, I very much want Roe overturned, and have strongly supported all efforts to do so.

Oldefarte| 7.23.09 @ 11:47AM

In Quin's words, I hope that South Carolina voters GET TO GRAHAM at the time of his re-election; and they're stupid if they do not !!!!!!!!!!

Richard Baker| 7.23.09 @ 3:33PM

So let's see. He's against her and now he's for her. What will it be next week? Are there two Lindsey Grahams? He certainly is a mass of confusion, isn't he? South Carolina deserves FAR better than this incompetent.

Red Phillips| 7.23.09 @ 5:12PM

Quin, if I'm not mistaken, RedState banned new Ron Paul supporter accounts. Whether they purged older accounts that were supportive of Paul I do not know.

BigSkyBob is correct that the GOP PTB do not want Roe to go away. If they did, they would have passed a law limiting the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court when they had majorities in both houses and the Presidency. They like having Roe to keep the troops in line every two and four years, but they do not want to deal with the political consequences of a world without Roe, meaning having abortion on the table in all 50 states.

South Carolinians had a chance to oust Graham in '08. He had a conservative primary opponent, Buddy Witherspoon, and his Democratic opponent in the general, Bob Conley, was much more conservative than Graham. Unfortunately my fellow Southern state failed and sent Grahamnesty back to DC.

Red Phillips| 7.23.09 @ 5:24PM

Here is where RedState banned new (within six months) Ron Paul supportive accounts.

http://archive.redstate.com/blogs/leon_h_wolf/2007/oct/22/attention_ron_paul_supporters_life_is_really_not_fair

BigSkyBob| 7.24.09 @ 12:06AM

Quin

As to Linsey Graham: in my estimation, he is maybe, about the fifth to tenth most liberal Republican member of the Senate. By any objective standard he is actually more conservative than Specter, Snowe, and, Collins and in league with McCain [in more than one way!]. Being liberal hasn't stopped Collins from holding a position in the Repubican leadership, or McCain from gaining the Presidential nomination [with the support of something on the order of 30% of the Republican electorate]. From these facts, I can only surmise that the real reason such a fuss is being made about Graham is that aside from being a fraud upon conservatives, he is also a fraud upon the moderates who run the Republican party.

Welcome to feeling our pain!