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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI believe Lindsey Graham is being blackmailed by Trump. I think Trump has damaging info about a
Homosexual relationship etc. He is talking crazy and I think only a man being blackmailed would turn 180 degrees so quickly. Just my guess.
samnsara
(17,635 posts)Cosmocat
(14,572 posts)a smarmy, partisan jaggoff.
Siwsan
(26,289 posts)The quieter they are, the harder they defend him, the more damaging the info.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)...and the biggest folder is on Trump himself.
left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)Graham went overnight from being a Trump hater
to a Trump lover.
Cartaphelius
(868 posts)Nevilledog
(51,197 posts)lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)YessirAtsaFact
(2,064 posts)raccoon
(31,119 posts)Graham used to speak out against some of the Dotards actions.
Now hes totally turned around.
mainstreetonce
(4,178 posts)And was going to turn on Trump,but this is just crazy.
standingtall
(2,787 posts)either one of his partners or a friend of one of his partners would've already came out with it. Lindsey Graham has also been a sleazeball. He may have gestured towards doing the right thing once or twice in the past, but he never followed through on it, and there has never been one inch of right wing crap he wouldn't vote for.
Democrats need to make him one of their top targets in the senate for 2020, that arrogant sob thinks he's untouchable, but he isn't.
Snake Plissken
(4,103 posts)He's basically a spineless salesman who sucks up to the customers that he has the most to profit from, and in his current situations that means blowing smoke up Trump's ass and telling him how bigly incredibly tremendously smart he is and how yuge his hands are.
oasis
(49,407 posts)atreides1
(16,093 posts)He wouldn't sell himself for anything less then protecting his sister and her family!!! The man has done a complete 180 since McCain died...and his change of heart just came in too damn fast!
He has been suspected of being gay for some time now and as long as he follows the "don't ask, don't tell" formula...his constituents don't really care!!!
Just an opinion and a theory!
LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(12,591 posts)He's just shoring up his loyalty bona fides.
malaise
(269,157 posts)Have the goods on all ReTHUGs.
Yavin4
(35,445 posts)He has no choice unless he wants to leave the Senate.
standingtall
(2,787 posts)by 2020 Graham could be in jeopardy of losing his seat.
Yavin4
(35,445 posts)Not general election.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Lindsey Graham is a big-shot Senator, and before that, he was a big-shot congressman (he was on the House Impeachment Team that presented the case against Bill Clinton to the Senate). He's got money, power, perks, and a guaranteed pension if things go horribly, irrevocably wrong.
What's that? His place in history could be at risk, too?
Goodness! With all those considerations, it's no wonder that if he's being blackmailed, Sen. Graham would have lots of reasons not to go public. He is, after all, just a United States Senator. Taking gambles on your life and livelihood is really more for vulnerable people going up against far richer and more powerful people. You can't expect Sen. Graham to have the courage to risk his career.
DFW
(54,436 posts)Instead of being a "confirmed straight bachelor," like he's been claiming all these decades, all he has to say is, "hell, even if I were gay, the Supreme Court has ruled that I can marry any man I want to, so what's the big deal?"
The more he denies it, the worse he'll look when it's made public. What's shameful is the hypocritical denial, not whether he's gay or not. Only the televangelists care about that these days, and only on Sunday mornings when they're trying their weekly fleece of the ignorant. So, at the end of the day, he should say, "I'll tell y'all what difference it makes: not a bit!" Hell, he'll even get a few more votes in SC, namely from SC Log Cabin Republicans, who can suddenly champion him in public.
Vinca
(50,303 posts)GeorgeGist
(25,323 posts)PJMcK
(22,048 posts)flotsam
(3,268 posts)Was Graham thrown out of the army for gay sex?
A new member of the 100th Army Reserve Unit in Basic Training at Ft. Knox was arrested in the barracks for sodomy. The guy is getting out of the military and the excuse will be due to an illness, an eye disorder. The Major then told a joke about it saying, "I guess the guy couldn't see the difference between guys and girls."
Lynch asked him how this guy could accomplish this and get a release from the army. The Major told him that the soldier had served as an intern to Senator John Sherman Cooper and Senator Cooper called the Commanding General of Ft. Knox to arrange the discharge.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2013/02/24/1189537/-The-Strange-and-Possibly-Sordid-Story-of-Mitch-McConnell-s-Military-Service
Greybnk48
(10,176 posts)and being released from the Army Reserve for sodomy, which was changed to an eyesight affliction.
Not about Lindsey Graham, although that's a well known secret in regard to Graham. It's about McConnell being gay and closeted.
flotsam
(3,268 posts)Sorry to all...And "Addison"?
Greybnk48
(10,176 posts)MBS
(9,688 posts)Something has to explain his sharp 180 on Trump and his increasingly bizarre sycophancy.
obamanut2012
(26,137 posts)He's always been like Collins, wishy washy with no courage, but the last few months has been very different. He isn't acting even like Collins does or McCain did -- make believe you are moderate, vote the way 45 wants you to, but not kiss up much to 45. Graham is a total Trump stan now, and it happened like *snap* that.
stopbush
(24,396 posts)because they all conspired with him and the Russians to win in 2016.
Mike Nelson
(9,966 posts)
First, I thought he was playing mole - staying cozy with the Don to keep an eye on him and "save the country" if needed.
Second, I thought maybe Russian money.
Did not think about the gay angle... just assumed he would say, "So what?" at this point.
Did see his glassy-eyed perf on FOX and now feel it's all up in the air. I just don't know, anymore...
Turbineguy
(37,365 posts)lies in its being a secret.
If Graham turns out to be gay, well, it's too late to panic now.
BigDemVoter
(4,157 posts)or young boy or something even more "colorful" than oral sex. Furthermore, I bet Lindsay paid cash for it, as I cannot imagine ANYBODY being interested in him for any other reason.
As far as a "relationship" is concerned, I would venture to say that it must be something on a more superficial level like sex for money.
Power 2 the People
(2,437 posts)tblue37
(65,483 posts)Everyone already assume he is gay.