Sen Lindsey Graham dies at 71 after ‘brief and sudden illness

Cray said:
Yes, if you don't actualy care about re-election, why would you care about doing a god job in the eyes of the electorate? You could make the argument that a career politician is far less likely to be corrupt as them losing their seat means a loss of their primary source of income. If you are a seat warmer with other prospects, you don't have those restraints on you.
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You make a good point about not caring about being re-elected but since his sister is appointed - and according to press reports, he cared for her when their parents died - she is highly likely to want to honour her brother's legacy and she can do so by asking: How would Lindsey vote?
 
Vox Populi Vox Dei said:
You make a good point about not caring about being re-elected but since his sister is appointed - and according to press reports, he cared for her when their parents died - she is highly likely to want to honour her brother's legacy and she can do so by asking: How would Lindsey vote?
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Fair enough, I don't find her appointment that problematic, just that I think the length of term is not related to likliehood of corruption. I wasn't aware of their personal history with losing their parents, didn't much like his politics but it couldn't have been easy for a 22 year old to become the guardian of a 13 year old teenager, kudos to him for that.
 
Vox Populi Vox Dei said:
You make a good point about not caring about being re-elected but since his sister is appointed - and according to press reports, he cared for her when their parents died - she is highly likely to want to honour her brother's legacy and she can do so by asking: How would Lindsey vote?
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So, this slimehole did at least one good thing in life.

What legacy did he leave by the way ? Sucking Orange ?
 
Cray said:
Fair enough, I don't find her appointment that problematic, just that I think the length of term is not related to likliehood of corruption. I wasn't aware of their personal history with losing their parents, didn't much like his politics but it couldn't have been easy for a 22 year old to become the guardian of a 13 year old teenager, kudos to him for that.
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Is she not being appointed at Trump's direction? Suppose it doesn't matter as the appointment is wholly political.
 
R13... said:
Is she not being appointed at Trump's direction? Suppose it doesn't matter as the appointment is wholly political.
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I mean it is the senate, which is a political body. It is a symbolic appointment rather than a political one though. It's not like she has had a career in politics and is now using this as a step ladder.

It's a nice gesture from Trump and the Governor, but not the right one.

A proper political appointment would have been better, like picking a state senator. Someone with legislative experience who doesn't have to learn as much to become effective.
 
konfab said:
I mean it is the senate, which is a political body. It is a symbolic appointment rather than a political one though. It's not like she has had a career in politics and is now using this as a step ladder.

It's a nice gesture from Trump and the Governor, but not the right one.

A proper political appointment would have been better, like picking a state senator. Someone with legislative experience who doesn't have to learn as much to become effective.
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She's a vote. That's all that is needed of her. A well paying sinecure for her and a safe vote without upsetting anything.
 

How Lindsey Graham's Death turns McConnell's "Hospital Photo" into Even Bigger Story - Blaze TV​

Senator Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) died suddenly over the weekend, but President Trump is making clear that his final wish was for the RINOs in the Senate to fight for the SAVE America Act.

Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) resurfaces with a TOTALLY REAL proof-of-life photo. I guess nothing to see here, right... ponders BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales.
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Cray said:
At least four prominent anti-gay campaigners caught in compromising same sex encounters...



If it was one person I reckon you could call it an outlier, but given how often politicians turn out to be massive hypocrits in other areas of life, I think it's safe to say that there are a lot more out there.
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It's certainly not a phenomenon isolated to the US nor conservatism. It's probably because politicians ultimately need to play to their base. If their base is homophobic, they need to be homophobic. If their base are pro-LGBT then they need to be pro-LGBT. It's all about getting votes to stay in power. What they personally believe matters a lot less. Their whole industry is based on lying/appearances.

I'm not sure this applies to this Graham fellow, I know very very little about him. I can probably count the times I've seen him before on one hand. Could be one of those times where personal belief happen to coincide with what his base wants. It's just when I saw him he sounded and acted like a sterotypical camp gay man. High pitched lilting voice, mincing about. It was wild. To find out he wasn't openly gay is actually pretty shocking to me. I had just assumed he was and it was public knowledge.

However it's wrong to just assume things like I did. Yes he was a little camp, and yes it seems he never took a wife. That doesn't mean the fellow was gay though.

If he was pushi\ng homophobic rhetoric, and supporting Bills that presumably were anti--gay though that's pretty sad. People need to get out of each other's lives as much as possible. If you're gay great for you. If you're straight great for you too. None of my business really.
 
Vox Populi Vox Dei said:
He died from cardiac arrest (heart attack for the normies :p )
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Probably got too excited seeing all them drones and his 70y old heart could not handle it.

Now he found out the blue eyed dude with the crossed fingers tricked his ass into the fire. Time to suffer.
 
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