Lindsey Graham has died
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I just spoke to him tonight about an hour ago for 10 minutes.
Too soon?
Too soon?
In South Carolina, Republicans could run a ham sandwich and win.
I would bet the governor will select a temp replacement to serve out Graham's term and then win reelection handily when the time comes.
Kentucky I'm not so sure about. Kentucky seems to have a viable opposition party that wins from time to time.
I would bet the governor will select a temp replacement to serve out Graham's term and then win reelection handily when the time comes.
Kentucky I'm not so sure about. Kentucky seems to have a viable opposition party that wins from time to time.
Here's one most folks don't know:
KENTUCKY
McKinley beat Bryan by 277 votes in 1896 (out of 436K)
Cox beat Harding by 4,017 votes (out of 901K)
Stevenson beat Ike (in 1952) by 700 votes (out of 1M)
Granted, KY will never be CA on the electoral vote, but those are miniscule numbers.
Kentucky still has a strain of the old Democratic Party running through it and if they nominate a Carter/Clinton type for governor, they have an even chance most years, far more so than most Southern states. If Andy Beshear could run for the Senate, he'd make a formidable opponent. I'm not saying he'd win, but he'd have a better chance than the average Democratic nominee in the South.
Well, until Bernie and AOC showed up to campaign for him.
Btw - Lindsey was supposed to be on "Meet the Press" this morning.
I'm sure Russert is at the Pearly Gates grilling him now over, well, everything.
I'm sure Russert is at the Pearly Gates grilling him now over, well, everything.
I thought I remembered a commercial saying he would be in the show this morning.
- “A Trump nomination would be an utter, complete and total disaster. If you’re a xenophobic, race-baiting, religious bigot, you’re going to have a hard time being president of the United States, and you’re going to do irreparable damage to the party.” (December 2015)
- “You know how you make America great again? Tell Donald Trump to go to hell. He’s a race-baiting, xenophobic, religious bigot. He doesn’t represent my party.” (December 2015)
- “The bottom line is that I believe Donald Trump would be an absolute, utter disaster for the Republican Party, destroy conservatism as we know it…This is why we’re getting killed with Hispanics. And Mr. Trump has taken every problem we have had with Hispanics and poured gasoline on it.” (March 2016)
and then senator pitty pat turned around and tried to overturn my vote and that of many other georgians in service to dear leader
and senator mccain is waiting to kick him in the junk
"I’ve never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure"Clarence Darrow
This is receiving wide attribution to Mark Twain today with the death of Lindsey and potential demise of Mitch.
Personally I am much too susceptible to that eventuality to celebrate their passing but pardon me if I don't mourn them.
This is receiving wide attribution to Mark Twain today with the death of Lindsey and potential demise of Mitch.
Personally I am much too susceptible to that eventuality to celebrate their passing but pardon me if I don't mourn them.
I read once that LBJ told a Democrat he’d speak for him or against him, whichever helps more.
Am I bad person, when my mind leapt immediately to the Senate and what this and McConnell's condition does to Donald J. in that Chamber? "SAVE" is even further out of reach and he has indicated he will almost pull the whole house down, if he doesn't get it...
He doesn't have 60%. He doesn't even have a majority now...
That's one I've never heard, but it sure is funny.
I can absolutely see him doing that.
I've devoured about 10 different books now on the 1968 Election for the Polls thread. I only thought I knew about that race. Almost everything we've ever been told about it - almost all of them rise to the level of myth or at least distortion or "filtered through the lens of the activists."
One consistent thing, though, is LBJ undercutting Humphrey at every turn until the final ten days or so of the campaign. There's even a video out there (I can't seem to find it right now) of Mondale and a few other big Democrats from the time frame saying they weren't sure LBJ wanted Hubert to win until the very end.
But over and over, it was like LBJ was Donald Trump with the loyalty test. Humphrey would say something, LBJ would come right out and say he couldn't promise that. When Hubert put the tiny little gap of stopping the bombing as "an acceptable risk for peace," LBJ didn't even like that even though it was really the only option he had to shake up the race.
Then again, Biden kept snorting to Harris "no daylight, kid," and she was supposed to defend every single one of his policies as the right thing to do, even if she disagreed with it. While I understand that a VP is saddled with the record of the predecessor, you still have to give them some wiggle room. "I agreed with the President on the goal of X, but the way I would go about accomplishing that is (list what you'd do differently)."
Reminder: these guys can't imagine a world without them running it, and they're shocked to suddenly discover the world goes on without them.
As Rick Wilson noted, Trump is that idiot in "Hunt for Red October" who blows up his own submarine.
"You arrogant (deleted). You've killed US."
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