Lindsey graham

[NQAS]

Just imagine what his obituary would look like. I suspect trump’s name will appear more than his own.

I think there is a consensus that trump is blackmailing him. After all, what could account for the 180 a few years back and, as nance Gregg pointed out in a post earlier today, his living without a spine.

You know, though, he could become a hero is he just came clean. What’s the blackmail all about? If it’s lifestyle, we’ll, it’s lifestyle. My calendar tells me it’s 2022. More than half the American population doesn’t give a damn. If it’s crime, admit it and pay the price. Perhaps bring honorable for once in your life will be cathartic. And just maybe he can single-handedly right the course of American democracy - that’s where the hero part comes in.

Or maybe he is just a spineless weasel riding the coattails of a rabid weasel because that gives him joy.

One more thing. Does graham not realize that trump eventually turns on everyone?

[Irish_Dem]

1. When it comes to Lindsey's private life, I don't think it is the what, it is the who, specifically.

Just guessing here.

[JT45242]

18. Not the who, the how old

Since the 1990s the LGBTQ community has known Lindsay likes his boys young...not sure if he has graduated from liking them still in high school but that was the buzz when he was part of the Clinton impeachment team..

[Irish_Dem]

19. Yes that and maybe other secrets.

[Quakerfriend]

2. No doubt he is being blackmailed &

I believe he is being told by his ‘handlers’ to get on TV and say stuff- that BBC interview….I’m quite sure he doesn’t want to defend the idiotic things he says or any of the other R wing nonsense.

[brooklynite]

3. No evidence of blackmail whatsoever...

Graham is someone without any particular appeal who latches on to someone else who's successful so he can have "relevance" and feel important.

[PJMcK]

6. Agreed

The rumors are meaningless.

Graham has nothing of his own to offer so he tries to live in the reflective light from others.

If there is blackmail, then Graham is even more of a spineless weasel as is anyone who doesn’t stand up to Trump.

[paleotn]

4. Rumor is it's lifestyle.....

Been rumored since his time at USC law school. And it may be 2022 in much of the country, but not in South Carolina. It's barely 1822 down there. Plus rumors that he likes his partners a bit on the young side. How young might lead to something criminal perhaps. Who knows? Whatever it is, it's damning and its revelation scares the shit out of him.

[PJMcK]

7. In fairness, where's the evidence?

I detest Graham. He’s a first-class weasel and toady.

Yet, despite unsubstantiated rumors, I haven’t seen or heard any evidence or public statements about Graham’s sex life, (it makes me uncomfortable to even mention that!).

Until then, I’ll just hate him for his un-American Republican bullshit.

[marble falls]

9. Thank-you. I agree with most of the comments above: he can't navigate solo, so he attaches ...

... himself to who-ever takes him in politically.

And no matter where he orients with his sexuality (unless it involves under aged or unwilling partners), I will still hate him for his politics only.

[EYESORE 9001]

11. He's a political remora

His eulogy should include identifying as a suckerfish.

[paleotn]

15. The thing is, he didn't use to be.

Unless I'm mistaken, and I don't think I am, his remora like grip on Trump or anyone else is a relatively new phenomenon. There was a time when he was conservative, but not stupid conservative, to the point of irritating the far right if his party. Haven't seen that in him since 2017ish.

[EYESORE 9001]

21. Before rump, his identity seemed tied up with whatever John McCain was advocating

Perhaps it was more like Big-Dog-and-Me-Too.



There’s always been some form of hero worship. It transferred to rump when John McCain became too sick to make the rounds of Sunday morning talking-head programs.

[paleotn]

12. And there's plenty to dislike in that regard.

but the rumors remain, starting with his classmates in law school and continuing with the "lady graham" hashtag a couple years ago.

https://www.washingtonblade.com/2020/10/16/the-sad-closeted-hypocrisy-of-lindsey-graham/

Honestly, I couldn't care less about his lifestyle. His politics is the only thing that matters in my mind. But the fact is, South Carolina Republicans won't send an openly gay man back to Congress. And many on the far right were none too happy with him back in the Bush years when he openly supported W's immigration reform plan among other things. He faced relatively serious primary opposition in 2008 and 2014. Fast forward to the late 20 teens and he's a dyed in the wool Trump supporter? Granted, that's the direction the GQP wind is blowing, but I think there's more to it than that. He use to be willing to buck the far right of his party if it made legislative sense. Not anymore. Not since 2016.

[Butterflylady]

13. Yep, got to remember Billy Graham Highway runs thru the Carolinas.

And rump like to have dirt on people that he could use. Does Macron ring a bell.

[Joinfortmill]

5. It's all gonna come out, Lindsey. Trump will spill it.

[CentralMass]

8. He is as the saying goes "The organ grinders monkey."

[Emile]

10. What I detest about Graham he has always been an ass kissing follower.

The stupid sidekick!

[Mr. Ected]

14. What you say about Graham and cowardice can be said of the entire GOP

If someone's holding kompromat against you, fess up. Your power trip will either continue because your constituents don't care or it'll end and the country will be a better place without you.

So many little people afraid of facing the consequences of their lives while at the same telling us to do just that. I hate hypocrites more than Republicans, though I admit the Venn diagram of the two looks exactly the same.

[doc03]

16. Lindsey Graham and the Remora fish

[Ocelot II]

17. He's a feckless weasel, regardless of whatever skeletons he's keeping in his closet.

Maybe if he dug around though those skeletons he'd find a spine. But he's really stuck now, because he must know that TFG always turns on people the minute they stop kissing his ass. So Graham has to keep his lips firmly affixed to those vast orange buttocks no matter what, since he hasn't the cojones to stand up to TFG's mean non-tweets.

[kskiska]

20. Besides, he likes the good life

that TFG provides - country club life, golf, good eats, rich folks.