Lindsey Graham Censured By SC GOP

I'd say this is as indicative of the times as it is Lindsey Graham. Politician gets sent to Washington as a Senator, stays too long. And his own party at home has finally had enough. Couldn't happen to a nicer guy.

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) -- Republican leaders in a South Carolina county have censured their own U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham for working with Democrats on a climate bill and other legislation.

The Republican has often worked with Democrats in Congress, but Charleston County Chairwoman Lin Bennett says his work on climate legislation is the last straw.

The party resolution passed Monday says Graham has weakened the Republican brand. Bennett expects a similar resolution to be introduced at the state GOP convention next year.

Comments

[mark l.]

when it comes to the gop in SC, you get almost all of the "31 flavors".

you have jim demint, classic conservative.
you have lindsey graham, behaving like a squirrel in the middle of the road, trying to pick a side of the road, while staring at the mack truck coming his way.
then you have marshall sanford...

[Proud Liberal]

Wow...this is great. The Stalinist purge continues... ideological purity rules the day. smaller and smaller and smaller the GOP will become as a result. This is such great news from my perspective as a Democrat. Come on guys, lets get cracking on that socialist Crist down in Florida and that skank up in Maine.. PURITY...PURITY... PURITY

Viva Revolution Teabaggers

[SacTownMan]

No RINO's!!!!

[Proud Liberal]

No RINO's = No elected official. the GOP has turned into TV hosts... radio personalities... quitters from Wasilla... and certifiable lunatics... enjoy.

[SacTownMan]

No Pussy Liberal you can keep all of the losers and suckups in your party.

And what's up with you trolls and your preoccupation with licking some guy's balls??

I bet you need a toothpick to get out all of the pubic hairs after you finish?

Keep up the talking points, very original!!

Don't worry about conservative Republicans my troll friend it's the Independants that are turning on you and your fellow moonbats you need to fear in 2010!!

Every time you losers gain power you screw it up and this time is no different!

Keep ignoring the TEAPARTY protests and the message from last weeks elections and when you're done pulling your head out of Xerxes ass maybe you can come up for some of that fresh air of FREEDOM that we will get when all of you douchbags are safely back under your rocks!!

[ET]

Poor, sad PL. The democrats have always been liars...tax cheats...hypocrits...and certifiable lunatics...enjoy.

[North Dallas Thirty]

The funny part is that the screaming Proud Liberal and its fellow leftists are trying to purge their moderate members at the same time.

So let's see; the Obama Party ends up with a handful of squishy Republicans while driving enough people to flip control of Congress out of their party.

I can certainly live with that.

[templar knight]

Hahaha, that moron Proud Liberal hasn't seen the latest poll that now has Republicans taking the lead over Democrats in the 2010 elections. The liberals are so smart that they have gone from a high of 74 to the new low yesterday of 44.

Yes, NDT, I can live with that myself. The Party of Political Correctness(mainly the Democrats, but a few like Graham) is getting people killed, and the last straw was the murder of our soldiers at Ft. Hood. As STM says, we're going to clean house with these bastards and we need justice to be done to these politically correct facilitators of murder.

And whatever the titty babies like Proud Liberal say to do, we need to be sure we do just the opposite, as they will never do anything to help us. And yes, we need to run the Lindsey Grahams out of the Republican Party. You can have him, PL, he would be a moderate Democrat. Oh, shit, you progressives can't stand that.

It is so damn much fun to watch the meltdown of the Democratic Party. Now the gays are boycotting, the abortionists are boycotting, moderate Dems are being threatened by the left wing nuts, and they have a useless idiot as their President. If the country survives it will be a miracle, but the nuts on the Left are going to pay for what they have done to this country. Pay dearly.

[mark l.]

"The Stalinist purge continues... ideological purity rules the day. smaller and smaller and smaller the GOP will become as a result. This is such great news from my perspective as a Democrat."

ha.

"Kos says that we should withhold donations to the OFA, DCCC and DSCC because donating to them is against our interests (healthcare and reproductive rights)."
-dailykos.

"Joe and I are launching today a donor boycott of the DNC. The boycott is cosponsored by Daily Kos, Jane Hamsher of FireDogLake, Dan Savage, Michelangelo Signorile, David Mixner, Andy Towle and Michael Goff of Towle Road, Paul Sousa (Founder of Equal Rep in Boston), Pam Spaulding, Robin Tyler (ED of the Equality Campaign, Inc.), Bil Browning for the Bilerico Project, and soon others."
-americablog.

one man's principled stand, is another man's purge.

[ace]

What's amazing to me is the anger that liberal Democrats have when RINO's are discovered and ousted from the GOP.

It's almost like they don't want us sniffing out their secret agents and offing them.

They cry out "Nooooooo .... you don't want a civil war."

They're giving up the ghost. The anti-RINO movement is on the right track.

[mark l.]

"smaller and smaller and smaller the GOP will become as a result."

see any good generic polls, lately?

[mark l.]

pl-

be honest. the only actual "purge" that has mattered in the past 20 years of dc politics is the expulsion of joe lieberman.

you think if he was still in the democrat party, that he would be stepping on your nuts? the libs are sowing the seeds of their own destruction that they, themselves, planted in 2006.

thank you, and liberals, everywhere.

[Reaganite Republican]

Goober should read up a little more on the Gipper- and his real -not flexible- belief in the American people, free markets, and spirit of individualism in this country.

While Graham's military views are great with me, his domestic abandonment of basic conservative principles makes you wonder what on earth he's thinking- he's from South Carolina... drifting to the left serves WHAT purpose for him or his constituency, exactly?

Must that beltway noggin rot... Newt caught it too.

[Proud Liberal]

ace cluelessly writes: "What's amazing to me is the anger that liberal Democrats have when RINO's are discovered and ousted from the GOP."

huh? trust me Tonto, no anger here at all. Unvarnished glee in watching the teabaggers destroy what remains of the GOP. The anger is all from the moderate Republicans who rightly feel that their party has been hijacked by the Palin/Limbaugh/Beck brigade.

[ET]

It is amazing to me how the vile liberals continue to mainstream the term "teabaggers". I have seen "pundits" use the term freely on msnbc, and even the president used the term when stumping for healthcare with the dems in congress. How dare they refer to their adversaries as people who dunk their balls in some guy's mouth! Totally condescending and obscene.

I have had it with the disrespect...from now on I will call memebers of the party of barney frank cocksuckers, as in "that cocksucker Obama."

Eat shit and die, PL, you cocksucker. (hey, that feels kinda good...)

[mike]

Liberals seem to know a lot about teabagging. Kind of hard to talk with your mouth full of a nut sack. All this whining about purging and all that crap. Just be honest. Change parties. Lindsay Graham (D)

[North Dallas Thirty]

Especially when you see what Proud Marxist is doing in their own party.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1109/29385.html

Let's see; Republicans are getting rid of leftist sleepers who are supporting Obama Party members anyway, Obama Party Marxists like Proud Liberal are getting rid of the people whose getting into office in 2006 and 2008 put them in the majority.

There is a side shooting itself in the foot here, but it ain't the Republicans.

[North Dallas Thirty]

The amusing thing is just how stupid Proud Liberal and the rest of the Obama Party base is.

Case in point: Proud Liberal's blabbering here.

"The Democratic party has been very inclusive in putting moderate Democrats up for election. Liberals like myself are not all that thrilled with Rahm Emanuel's strategy but it worked and the Dems have one in Red state districts as a result. To suggest that the Dem party is "purging" those that disagree with Obama is.. well.. just freaking moronic."

http://www.riehlworldview.com/carnivorous_conservative/2009/11/dont-give-gop-the-tea-party-anger.html?cid=6a00d83451c1db69e20120a67d6bf3970b#comment-6a00d83451c1db69e20120a67d6bf3970b

Meanwhile, back in reality:

"Other liberal groups are preparing to bring in the heavy artillery, launching advertising campaigns targeting Democrats for their ‘no’ votes. MoveOn.org has announced that it was launching a $500,000 TV campaign targeting six Democratic dissenters. On Tuesday, the Progressive Change Campaign Committee announced the launch of a “Hit the Blue Dogs” online ad campaign targeting 10 Democrats.

MoveOn.org Executive Director Justin Ruben said his organization — in addition to airing “thank you” ads aimed at the Democrats in competitive and marginal districts who took a tough vote in favor of the bill — planned to hold rallies this week in front of offices of Democratic and Republican members who voted against the bill."

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1109/29385.html

[templar knight]

"Liberals seem to know a lot about teabagging. Kind of hard to talk with your mouth full of a nut sack."

I can't quit laughing. Fits goober, aka Proud Liberal, to a tea! Lol!

[montee]

Why was this done publicly? I mean its great that they are trying to hold Graham to the best interests of his constituents. But why do it in public. This should have been done privately and quietly.

[spongeworthy]

Yeah, I have to wonder if they really thought this through. A purge is fine with me, but to slap the guy on the wrist publicly, that's amateur hour.

[templar knight]

To do it publicly sends a message, montee, and that is why it was done that way, or so I believe. Republicans in So. Carolina have to get Graham in line, or they risk losing that seat to Democrats, much like what we saw in NY-23. The base in SC is not going to put up with Graham voting for cap and trade, for instance, and they are sick and tired of him bending over to Democrats. Why is it always the Republicans who have to compromise? See what I mean.

[Proud Liberal]

"Why is it always the Republicans who have to compromise? "

lol.... there are no words to do justice to comment on that absurd statement. Again, I am firmly convinced that most teabaggers live in an bizarro world of alternate reality. Fun, fun to watch.

Yes We Can

[templar knight]

Hm..Pussy Liberal, I'm a Republican, albeit conservative, and have not taken part in the tea party(teabagger, as you queers say) movement, but I do support their overall goals, which is to clean up Washington, D.C., starting with the liberal Democrats, but not limited to them in any respect.

The real fun will start when you morons fool around and get people like Blanche Lincoln defeated, and lose your majority. The only thing more certain than the sun coming up every morning is that a liberal will screw up anything he or she does. Your kind is about to be thrown...literally thrown, into the dustbin of history. And good riddance to trash.

[Proud Liberal]

"The only thing more certain than the sun coming up every morning is that a liberal will screw up anything he or she does."

After 8 years of the gross incompetence of the Cheney/bush administration that is a rather precious comment.

[Tully]

**The funny part is that the screaming Proud Liberal and its fellow leftists are trying to purge their moderate members at the same time.**

Yep. Which is why the number of independents keeps growing.

[Proud Liberal]

screaming? who is screaming. I think the teabaggers have corned the market on screamers. The Democrat party moved towards the center in the last election. That was Rahm's strategy to win in Red districts. It worked rather brilliantly. To say that the left is trying to purge its moderates is silly on its face. We all know it is your side of the aisle that has the litmus test on everything as evidenced by Rieh's post on Graham. My party has about 40 pro life members. How many pro choice members does your party have?

[North Dallas Thirty]

To say that the left is trying to purge its moderates is silly on its face.

No, it's reality.

"Other liberal groups are preparing to bring in the heavy artillery, launching advertising campaigns targeting Democrats for their ‘no’ votes. MoveOn.org has announced that it was launching a $500,000 TV campaign targeting six Democratic dissenters. On Tuesday, the Progressive Change Campaign Committee announced the launch of a “Hit the Blue Dogs” online ad campaign targeting 10 Democrats.

MoveOn.org Executive Director Justin Ruben said his organization — in addition to airing “thank you” ads aimed at the Democrats in competitive and marginal districts who took a tough vote in favor of the bill — planned to hold rallies this week in front of offices of Democratic and Republican members who voted against the bill."

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1109/29385.html

[gary gulrud]

Thank you, thank you, thank you, SC.

Oh, and while the pistol is hot, we're in need of someone to man up, very much like you did a while back, and start another Civil War. Could you help, just one more time?

[SJ Reidhead]

I just love the way Conservatives are rightly upset about the lies and the hate spread about Sarah Palin, but rejoice in doing the same thing to Lindsey.

SJR
The Pink Flamingo

[Joe Lieberman]

>>" The Stalinist purge continues... ideological purity rules the day."

Tell me about it!

[Steve]

An arch-lefty like "Pink Flamingo" is upset with conservatives.

Yawn.

If Pinky lived in a liberal state like NY he'd join the Socialist Workers Party. As things stand he figures he can better serve the cause by acting as a mole in the GOP.