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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHas Lindsey Graham gone crazy?
Maybe all the pressure got to him.
He is a mess.
DFW
(54,436 posts)None of them are really very complimentary, so I'll just keep them to myself until there is more concrete evidence for one or the other.
Chemisse
(30,816 posts)he was under investigation for campaign funding violations in his home state, but I can not confirm the validity of the information.
leftyladyfrommo
(18,869 posts)njhoneybadger
(3,910 posts)As my dear old dad used to say "he looks as nervous as a whore in church"
Seriously it seems like there is an invisible man standing next to him with a gun to his head.
shanny
(6,709 posts)when he called him an emasculated ? Something who just needed to attach himself to the nearest strongman....it was McCain, now it's Rump. (It was in a couple of tweets. Searches are hard on my phone but you can probably find them).
But yeah it sure seems to be doing a number on his head (hitching your sidecar to a lunatic has its downside). Or maybe he was always this crazy. He certainly has always been weak.
Funtatlaguy
(10,885 posts)shanny
(6,709 posts)duforsure
(11,885 posts)Just hid it well from everyone.
MrScorpio
(73,631 posts)Once Beauregard is canned
leftyladyfrommo
(18,869 posts)God. what a nest of vipers.
Socal31
(2,484 posts)I went back and read the transcript as well, and I think his theatrics over-shadowed the actual content. It was no dog whistle. Whatever it was, it was even louder than a bullhorn.
Funtatlaguy
(10,885 posts)Wounded Bear
(58,698 posts)tavernier
(12,396 posts)dalton99a
(81,568 posts)Thats the sad part I mentioned. And this is the absolutely pathetic twist: McCain, battling brain cancer, stopped spending much time in Washington, and as his health deteriorated, Grahams ardor and cheerleading for Trump intensified. McCain, you see, wasnt just Grahams friend. He was his road to greater relevance. And Trump presented a veritable expressway. So Graham switched vehicles and directions, and pressed the pedal to the metal.
He went from defending Jeff Sessions to pushing him toward the exit, from sounding the alarm about Russia to hyperventilating about the Justice Department and the F.B.I., from calling Trump a kook to savaging the media for portraying him as one, from wanting to put Trump on a bed of nails to fluffing his pillows and smoothing his duvet. At times he gushes so much that he makes Rudy Giuliani look withholding.
Shocker of shockers: He now has a nearly open line to the president and the president in turn calls him. White House reporters routinely mention this and him. He has all the TV time that he could ever want. On Thursday he got a prime spot at The Atlantic Festival in Washington, where he was interviewed by the magazines editor in chief, Jeffrey Goldberg. On Friday he got a big profile in the Style section of The Washington Post.
elocs
(22,597 posts)Because I have a goddaughter who has paranoid schizophrenia and she has been called "crazy" yet she is mentally ill with a disease and cannot help herself.
We give politicians a pass by putting such labels on them or diagnosing them with a mental illness or personality disorder.
Perhaps Graham is worried about being outed on something. Trump is another case. He is a man who grew up with a sense of entitlement who is self-centered and cruel and lacks empathy. This is who he is and who he chooses to be and I don't see the point of clinically diagnosing him with any mental illness or personality disorder which would not be his fault. We don't blame a schizophrenic for hearing voices or somebody being treated for depression for trying to kill themselves.
But we need to carefully consider the use of the word "crazy" in regards to people we don't like or don't like what they do or say just as we would with using the word "retard".