Lindsay Graham: "white men who are in male-only clubs are going to do great in my presidency"

[Ykcutnek]

Washington (CNN) -- South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham, who is toying with the idea of a presidential bid, joked in a private gathering this month that "white men who are in male-only clubs are going to do great in my presidency," according to an audio recording of his comments provided to CNN.

In the recordings, Graham, who is favored in his race for re-election next Tuesday against Democrat Brad Hutto, appears to joke about the possible 2016 presidential bid he recently floated in an interview with the Weekly Standard.

"I'm trying to help you with your tax status," Graham says in the recording. "I'm sorry the government's so f---ed up. If I get to be president, white men in male-only clubs are going to do great in my presidency." The crowd is then heard laughing.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/29/politics/lindsey-graham-private-club/index.html

[femmocrat]

1. Run, Lindsey, Run!

[muntrv]

2. ...And they will do well in gentlemen's clubs too?

[CanonRay]

3. Every now and then

The real nature of the Republican Party comes out.

[Marr]

4. Wow.

Not even hiding it anymore.

[elleng]

5. 'Toying' is right!

[BeyondGeography]

6. There goes the potential juggernaut that would have been Graham 2016

[Cha]

30. LOL.. is that his "47%" downfall?!

[VanillaRhapsody]

7. Why what White male only clubs are you talking about Lindsay?

please explain.....

this is going to be interesting....watch him try to walk that back..

[freshwest]

13. This may be one of them from last year:

Anonymous Hacks Neo-Nazi Website, Finds Ron Paul Connection

By Kimberley Johnson - November 18, 2013



Internet hactivist group “Anonymous” broke into the white supremacist website America Third Position (A3P) and found more than they bargained for. In the document dump that consisted of private forum messages, emails, organizational notes and other personal information, they found connections with former Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul.

The documents revealed Paul held meetings with the group and regularly met with many A3P members, engaged in conference calls with their board of directors and participated in a “bridging tactic” between A3P and the Ron Paul Revolution. Not surprisingly, A3P is heavily involved in campaigning for Paul. Also revealed, Paul met with Nick Griffin, the leader of the British National Party — the UK fascist group with neo-Nazi roots. Live Leaks reported:

“Other excerpts show A3P webmaster Jamie Kelso (whose email account was one hacked by the collective) coordinating meetings between Paul and other members of A3P such as corporate lawyer and chairman of the neo-Nazi group Paul (sic). ‘I’m going to go to the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) with Bill Johnson,’ reads an email to an A3P member dated January 2011. ‘Bill and I will be meeting with Ron and Ran Paul. I have a teleconference call with Bill (and Ron Paul) tonight. Much more later. Things are starting to happen (thanks to folks like you).’ In another passage, Kelso, a former Scientologist and account owner of other German Nazi forums, wrote: “I’ll be at CPAC from Feb. 9 to Feb 12. I’ll send back reports to you from personal meetings with Ron Paul, newly-elected Senator Rand Paul and many others. It’ll be here on WhiteNewsNow, a place that is really starting to get interesting because of the presence of folks like you. Birds of a feather flock together, and we are really gathering some quality here.”’

http://samuel-warde.com/2013/11/anonymous-hacks-website-finds-ron-paul-connection/

I know, the Paulites will shriek 'guilt by association' but walks like, talks like...

Quack!!

[calimary]

15. Man... we need all the oppositional research we can get!

I really want to start connecting the dots with these fringe and extremist groups as generally repulsive as the Nazis - and whatever can connect all the way to the GOP and its leading "lights." I'd love to see it just get so ugly around them that most of America starts to shy away. Make 'em stink so bad even the teabaggers don't want to be associated with 'em.

[lastlib]

27. The teabaggers are joined to them at the hip--NO WAY they can deny the association.

[Wellstone ruled]

8. Come on down!!!!

Little Lindsey run baby run. Is it ok with Johnny Boy? You got to be kidding,the leader of the Clinton Impeachment club.

[sgtbenobo]

9. Quick grab your dictionary!

Next to the definition of Smarmy is picture of Lindsey Graham.

Sad, sad, weird little man.


Carry on.

[calimary]

16. Welcome to DU, sgtbenobo!

Glad you're here! Dear lindsey graham strikes me as little more than john mccain's shadow or squire or gofer or some such thing. And with about the personality heft of a shadow, too. Like john and his little pet pooch. Anybody who takes lindsey graham at all serious as presidential material seriously needs his or her head examined.

[UTUSN]

10. RUN, Lindsay, RUN!1 & let your co-Rethugs SADIST-you to pieces!1 n/t

[hadrons]

11. Lindsey, just come out of the closet....

GOPers actually like window-dressing and having ONE high-profiled guy from a group they hate spewing their nonsense is OK with them.

[waddirum]

23. I can't tell which one is Lindsey's biggest fantasy:

being a member of the "male only club" or being a "President".

[Tom Ripley]

12. Sid Sawyer speaks

[OldRedneck]

14. An "all-male" club?

Well, that sort of confirms the long-time rumors about Graham's sexual preferences. Are we sure this wasn't a bathhouse?

[vanlassie]

17. And still the Stepford Wives of the GOP would vote for him.

[riderinthestorm]

18. Sounds a lot like Mitts 47% remark....

Or Bush's remark about his wealthy 1% supporters being his "base".

Crass, tone deaf, and supremely arrogant.

[LisaLynne]

19. The Presidency that is only going to happen in your demented head, Lindsay nt

[littlemissmartypants]

20. And his voter id

Is a strip club membership card.

~ littlemissmartypants 🙅

[progressoid]

21. Note: this is not The Onion

[stillwaiting]

32. I thought for sure it was at first. Or Borowitz. Or satire.

Stunning that it's not.

Clearly, he thinks that way, but he said it out loud!

Idiot.

[YOHABLO]

22. Yeah run, but not too fast, you'll trip over your hoop skirt.

[Brigid]

24. Oh boy.

This does not sound good.

[czarjak]

25. PLEASE....

Tell us all about the initiation rights. (I dare ya.) PS. Didn't take it up the ass, right? Don't spill those "secrets" you're sworn to. LINDSEY.

[valerief]

26. I love the character that plays Graham on Alpha House. nt

[d_b]

28. I'm not even going to say it

[Simeon Salus]

29. Is that male-only DANCE clubs?

This poor fellow, a man who cries nothing BUT wolf, gets the vapors about virtually everything. Don't think he'd be able to handle one week of the stress of a presidential campaign without biting his fingertips completely off. He wouldn't even win the nomination in his home state. Who would even consider donating campaign dough to this loser?

[KentuckyWoman]

31. Bless his heart.

I think he's kinda cute when he invites us all to his ballerina dress up tea party and talks about his little unicorn dreams complete with everything in sight covered in glitter.