Goodness gracious!

I think we should simply automatically declare all Republican governors, senators, representatives, state legislators, and sanitation district commissioners to be presidential candidates. If they don't want to run, they can send in a postcard or something.

Lindsey is on my short list of current and former Members of Congress to be implicated in the emerging Boyfuckergate scandal, along with Cantor, Shadegg, Doolittle, Hastings, and Boehner. Even if he's not a ped, his cozy relationship with the Republicans who are will surely invite scrutiny into his very, very gay-looking life.

http://www.charlestoncitypaper.com/charleston/is-lindsey-graham-gay/Content?oid=1111370

I don't want to revive this ugly debate, but I strongly contend that when a closeted gay politician tries to take away the rights of gay people for political points, that person's sexuality very much is a political issue worthy of public speculation and discussion.

Because like you I believe that a person's private life should stay as just that.

But this guy has spent his political career denying equal rights for LGBT community and that just pisses me off. It pisses me off at the same level as 'Michelle Duggar making robocalls saying how Transgenders are a danger to our children and then finding out that her eldest is a pedophile' level of pissed off. And FYI - that really pissed me off because of how my hypocrisy is involved in that!

I have absolutely no care if the world if we elect a President who is gay but I have a serious challenge electing one who could be a closeted gay who wants to take away the rights from law-abiding citizens of this country. The LGBT community is not asking for special privilege - they just want the same exact rights that the rest of us have here in this country. Is that too much to ask?

But, as I'm sure we would both agree, Graham is an excoriable sociopath whose trail of destruction through Congress has tainted millions of lives. He has deliberately made sexuality a political issue, and has sought to take away the rights and freedoms of our citizens purely for political gain, against his own sexual inclinations, which is simply disgusting.

So. Fuck. Him.

Graham's public implosion and the permanent destruction of his reputation and legacy is far more important than any privacy he retains, which is scarcely any thanks to his own legislative decisions.

These asshats like Lindsay should just be honest. Maybe then they can do something for the people instead of spending a lot of time being in denial and pretending.

I have to sit down now and try to keep from laughing my guts out.

All of them rationalized with claims about Graham's purported hypocrisy, which in turn hinge on the assumption that he is in fact a closeted gay man.

Not DU's finest moments.

...homophobic comments when I read the subject line.

Sad commentary on so-called "progressives", huh?

Please be specific.

Further, even if he is gay, then it's still wrong to use homophobic hate speech to attack him. That kind of regressive bullshit has no place here.

Attack him for his hypocrisy, if he is shown to be a hypocrit. But an attack on his orientation is an attack on that orientation, rather than upon Graham.

snip
We worked for years to see these reactors approved and I’m very pleased this long-sought goal has finally been achieved. The construction of two new reactors will be an over $10 billion dollar project and represents one of the largest investments in South Carolina history.----Lindsay Graham

Two weeks later, when Graham’s “Team Graham” Senate campaign committee filed its quarterly lobbying disclosure form, just one name appeared. SCANA Corporation, the committee revealed, had given the Graham $54,575 in bundled campaign contributions between January 1 and March 31 — raising money for him as he worked to secure their $10 billion project.
The Center for Responsive Politics ranks SCANA as Graham’s second-biggest source of campaign donations, dating back to his 1994 House of Representatives camapign. According to their tabulations, he received at least $37,725 from SCANA’s political action committee and at least $67,380 from SCANA employees over that time. Their support for Graham was relatively cheap, compared to the $260,000 the company reported spending on federal lobbying in the first quarter of 2012 alone. snip

http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2012/05/01/474499/lindsey-graham-love-nuclear/

Over 40 years and more, we've been able to shut down this dangerous nuke industry that STILL has nowhere to put the rad waste so highly radioactive fuel rods are sitting in pools in our cities "temporarily"---for 40+ years! You can count on a Fuku-type disaster there. And now it's Lindsay Graham proclaiming the new nuke renaissance. Another Big Clown for the KKKlownKar.

I had no idea that gay slurs were a shorthand way to refer to porkbarrel politics and environmental destruction.


I have so much to learn.

infrastructure, nukes for campaign donations, taxes, and his record in Congress for starters

First act in office is to bomb Iran.

just wondering....

Still a long way to go.

...and all that but jokes about even complete total asshole Jewish people or Blacks or Gays or XXX's is not in good taste either on this forum or that Forum across the street. (FR)
Sorry the person had to learn the hard way 'cause I think his intentions were just to be funny but...NO...

Does anybody else think this sounds like a slogan that would have come out
of Nazi Germany?

It is kind of creepy - gotta keep that good ol' American exceptionalism going by bombing the snot out of everybody else. Lindsey is running because he really, really wants a war and isn't getting one.

a mockery of our election system. And they STILL can't find anyone qualified to run. There has to be over a dozen of these idiots by now. Unbelievable!!!

Why, God, wwwwwwhhhhyyyyyy?!?!

a worse nightmare candidate for president than Lindsey Graham.

It's hard to say who is worse. Is Graham worse than Cruz? Perry? Ben Carson? Christie? Huckleberry? Sanitarium? Jindal? Who is worse? What a party they are.

Just saying...

your reasoning?

How about plagiarism, racism, misogyny, hatred of the civil rights act, supporting the government shutdown, ridiculous notions of financial matters, his view on vaccines.... do I need to go on?

This quote alone (in a thinking society) should prevent anyone from voting for him:

Imagine the level of stupidity required for that.

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Please stop and think before you post.

He also did this with Joe Lieberman:

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I have to admit that I felt guilty when I posted it, though not because of the reasons the alerter gave. I felt bad because I was obviously stealing John Stewart's material.

Thanks for the info, pipoman. Who'd a thunk it?

The rumors about him to start

The more repub coverage on the teevee the more repub messaging infects American minds.

Of course, Ladylips Lindsey is running. He's a good repub.

Same difference.

Next!

Sorry; I meant wars. Can you feel the wars?

...to send other people to kill everything in sight.

WTF is going on around here these days?

Lindsey Graham has done enough in his POLITICAL career to criticize, are not-so-hidden gay comments really necessary too?

Sadly there are too many comments on this thread about his sexual orientation, even though they're ASSUMPTIONS, not necessarily fact.

Isn't that what republicans and Fox News do? Aren't we better than this?

And my comments are directed not only to this post, but the dozen or so others.

...making unfounded comments about a person's sexual orientation is mean spirited, uncalled for, inappropriate, and rude. I'm sure I'm not the only person here who feels that way.

I don't like the man, disagree with his politics entirely, but if I wanted to criticize him I'd do it based on his political positions or policies.

I certainly wouldn't stoop to making false accusations or innuendos about his personal life.

That's not who we are as a community. We are better then that.

That Benghazi story. What part did he play in that lie? Why don't they(media) do some follow-up on that.

full of delightful idiots.

I read that he's scheduled to go to New Hampshire the day after the big "announcement."

Has he decided whether he is going to shit or get off the pot yet?

and he wants money. He'll even deploy washed up actor Chuck Norris to tell you to support him.



Huck and Chuck: We are too poor for a new logo




What the fuck did you say? I'm coming right over to kick your ass.



This man is running for president and YOU need to donate to him. Call 1-800-give-2huck

he has a website and FB page (3,212 likes).

Him or Cruz, I don't know which one would get their keister kicked harder in the general election.

"Let's bomb everybody! Yeehawww!!!"