If you’re hiding under your bed in terror, you’ve just found your presidential candidate
Acting on the time-tested theory of presidential candidacies known as “Why the hell not?”, Senator Lindsey Graham joined the 2016 GOP contest today. And right from the outset, after thanking folks for coming and saying he’s running, Graham got to his candidacy’s central rationale:
So get ready. I know I’m ready.
I want to be president to defeat the enemies trying to kill us, not just penalize them or criticize them or contain them, but defeat them.
Ronald Reagan’s policy of “peace through strength” kept America safe during the Cold War. But we will never enjoy peaceful co-existence with radical Islam because its followers are committed to destroying us and our way of life. However, America can have “Security through Strength.”
If you think about it, that almost sounds like Graham is saying that Reaganism isn’t enough, a disturbing hint of heresy. Since we can’t have peace, Graham implies, we might as well just get ready for war.
And unless his entire career has been a ruse, that’s exactly what we’d get with a Lindsey Graham presidency. You thought George W. Bush liked to play on Americans’ fears to justify military action? Well that was nothing. Lindsey Graham has never met a foreign policy challenge that didn’t terrify him down to the marrow of his bones. Let the other candidates treat voters like children, telling them that there are serious threats to America that must be confronted. Only Lindsey Graham has the courage to look voters in the eye and say forthrightly: terrorists are coming to kill your children, unless Iran gets to them first and incinerates them in a nuclear blast.
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Has any other presidential candidate ever campaigned on "people trying to kill us?" 
Remember Zell challenging Chris Matthews to a duel?
I watched that live & couldn't believe it.
His announcement speech was really something, but not surprising for him. The kicker was ending with James Brown. Being played offstage with "I Feel Good" seemed a really odd choice after that fear and doom speech. 
Regards to the Chief.
I'm prepared to do that if necessary, but so far it hasn't been necessary. Still, my brother has my instructions on bailing me out in the event I get caught up in something. But I'd reserve the label "hero" for those who are making the sacrifice when nobody else is doing it and it takes an extra measure of courage to be the only one out there, heaped with scorn and twisting in the wind.
These days I do fewer political protests and more community and veterans events. We have a lot of positive things going on in my community, and because it's a very red area, I have to go down to L.A. to do political protests. 
Nadin, I think you and the Chief will appreciate how some high school students here (and a fantastic teacher) built new homes for an Army tank driver severely wounded in Iraq and for his caregivers. The story is in the thread:
It's Not Rude: These Portraits Of Wounded Vets Are Meant To Be Stared At (GRAPHIC WARNING)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=6726568
Impressive story. Sad, but impressive.
