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babylonsister

(171,079 posts)
Fri Jul 26, 2013, 08:16 AM Jul 2013

Watch out, Lindsey Graham: the Tea Party says that you are next.

They're all nuckin' futz!

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/07/26/lindsey-graham-s-tea-party-opponents-are-emerging.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+thedailybeast%2Fpolitics+%28The+Daily+Beast+-+Politics%29

Lindsey Graham’s Tea Party Opponents Are Emerging
by David Freedlander Jul 26, 2013 4:45 AM EDT
The contenders looking to primary the controversial South Carolina senator in 2014 are starting to come forward.

Watch out, Lindsey Graham: the Tea Party says that you are next.
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According to sources in South Carolina and within the Tea Party, at least two serious challenges to Graham are expected to emerge in the next few weeks. Dustin Stockton, a leading conservative activist and head of Western PAC, told The Daily Beast that he is headed to South Carolina next month to help build a ground game for the 2014 primary.

Knocking off Graham, said Stockton, who helped defeat establishment candidates in Alaska and Nevada in 2010, was this year’s top Tea Party priority.

“The Lindsey Graham wing of the party,” he said, stands for “saying one thing and doing another, creating backroom deals, getting elected, and not doing anything.”

Richard Cash, a businessman and former South Carolina congressional candidate, announced his candidacy in April.

But Tea Party types are looking to coalesce around either Lee Bright, a Spartanburg state senator, or Nancy Mace, a public-relations executive.

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Graham, he said, “is a community organizer for the Muslim Brotherhood in the Middle East and is not very concerned about our Fourth Amendment rights. He has been very much for centralized government power and control and not very friendly to our civil liberties.”

And Bright dismissed the notion that there remained some lingering affection for the senior senator.

“I have yet to find an area of the state that wouldn’t want to see him replaced,” he said.

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Watch out, Lindsey Graham: the Tea Party says that you are next. (Original Post) babylonsister Jul 2013 OP
Yes, please- let them run with that: Replace established conservatives LeftinOH Jul 2013 #1
"Oh my stars!" - Lindsey G. (R) Berlum Jul 2013 #2
The Amazing Things About Today's Rushpublicans... KharmaTrain Jul 2013 #3
I love watching them eat their own! BainsBane Jul 2013 #4
They have been after him since 2008. Are_grits_groceries Jul 2013 #5
Bless her heart mercuryblues Jul 2013 #6

LeftinOH

(5,357 posts)
1. Yes, please- let them run with that: Replace established conservatives
Fri Jul 26, 2013, 08:23 AM
Jul 2013

with gen-u-ine extremist nutjobs. Backfire.

KharmaTrain

(31,706 posts)
3. The Amazing Things About Today's Rushpublicans...
Fri Jul 26, 2013, 08:29 AM
Jul 2013

...they love their circular firing squads and think that if they keep shooting, sooner or later they'll hit something. Little Linz's sleazy games have caught up with him on both sides, but he's from South Carolina who have set new standards of sleaze in recent years...DeMint, Sanford, Haley...

Are_grits_groceries

(17,111 posts)
5. They have been after him since 2008.
Fri Jul 26, 2013, 08:38 AM
Jul 2013

The only reason he is still in office is his election cycle. He was re-elected in 2008, but the Tea Party hadn't gotten started yet. If he had had to run in 2012, he would have been gone.

Graham has a lot of money. However, he is not beloved even by more establishment GOPeas such as they are in SC. The Teaspitters hate him with a vengeance. Their passion, along with whatever money and outside support comes with it, will roll him.

Remember the name Nancy Mace. She was the first woman graduate from The Citadel.

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