great....so now Lindsey Graham "courted Rand Paul and Mike Lee" on Social Security

[ronaldo23]

the MSM narrative has began.


But this year, Graham has already shifted: He’s not only tempering his criticism of the tea party, he’s embracing some of the movement’s biggest champions. Graham actively courted two founders of the Senate’s tea party caucus, Rand Paul of Kentucky and Mike Lee of Utah, to join with him in his long-standing bid to overhaul Social Security. And he stood side by side recently with South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley — a heroine of the tea party — as they bashed President Barack Obama’s health care law.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0311/51214.html#ixzz1Ga4jVsPr

 

[Brett85]

“Cutting spending is a great thing. What’s your foreign policy?”

Cut foreign policy spending.

 

[sailingaway]

Yeah, I posted a thread about them working together earlier, and people were giving helpful step by step instructions on how Rand can get cootie shots.

Rand ran on this point, and Graham wants it to be 'his way'. I'm trusting Rand that it will still be palatable to the rest of us, not trusting Lindsay, that's for sure.

Although I could have sworn I read something last week in an interview where Rand said he 'might have to come out with his own' the implication being that insufficient consensus was building insufficiently quickly or something. After all, he has been saying this will come out in the next two weeks for a while now.

Lindsay is using Rand as a blocking dummy, but Rand is using the opportunity to lead. I'm not sure Lindsay has picked up on this yet, given his unfamiliarity with the concept of leadership.

Or perhaps this and the other article I saw are because he HAS realized Rand is leading, and now that Rand hasn't been shot down, Lindsay wants the credit.

People do that in firms and corporations all the time, take a more junior person's idea and work, call it 'our project' and loudly and patronizingly thank the junior person for the 'real and solid work' they put in.....implying the opposite, that they, themselves were the driving force.

 

[josh.schisler]

Graham's image as a centrist can only help this bill in the public eye. The public buys into so many cheesy centrist slogans; we can use all of them to promote this bill. I hope that he takes front and center on this bill.

 

[sailingaway]

Graham's image as a centrist can only help this bill. I hope that he takes front and center on this one.

The word you want is whore.

And that didn't help his cap and trade bill nor his amnesty bill....

But clearly Rand is trying to work with consensus here, to actually get something passed. And Lindsay is known for that sort of brokering, whatever you want to call it.

 

[demolama]

Lindsey's ego is too big... how does this schmuck keep getting reelected?

 

[sailingaway]

His last election was before the tea party really mobilized, it was just us, and even so we had a guy run against him from the right as a DEMOCRAT (he had previously been on the GOP exec committee, but it was such a red state he still won the Dem primary). And he got over 40% of the vote even though he was unknown to the people and was a good guy but frankly not a good speaker.

Unsurprisingly, the Democratic party endorsed Lindsay over 'their own' candidate....

Next time, Lindsay is gone. Which is why he is fighting for some kind of 'win' he can 'take home'.

 

[Brett85]

His last election was before the tea party really mobilized, it was just us, and even so we had a guy run against him from the right as a DEMOCRAT (he had previously been on the GOP exec committee, but it was such a red state he still won the Dem primary). And he got over 40% of the vote even though he was unknown to the people and was a good guy but frankly not a good speaker.

I wish I would've known about that guy back than. I would've sent him money and worked to get him elected.

 

[sailingaway]

I wish I would've known about that guy back than. I would've sent him money and worked to get him elected.

He could have used it. He ran his entire campaign on about $26,000 and grass roots....to Lindsay's $6 million or so, and STILL got 40%+ of the vote....

I gave him a little, but not a lot. He got Lindsay to agree to a debate by saying if Lindsay didn't agree, he'd debate a cardboard cut out of Lindsay with voice overs of quotes of Lindsay's positions.....

 

[PatriotOne]

Good on Graham. At least he finally recognizes a rising star and if he wants to hitch his wagon to it and follow it, it makes me a happy camper. I hope the whole lot of them do it. I'll save the name calling and disgust for when they don't.