Alternative candidates are always griping that we in the MSM don’t give space or time to "alternative" candidates. Well, perish the thought!
Here, entirely unfiltered (I had intended to watch it all the way through before posting/commenting, but haven’t gotten to it, and it’s been sitting around and I need to clean out my save e-mail sometime), is video of a speech by Tim Carnes, who is challenging Lindsey Graham for the U.S. Senate.
Make of it what you will. Let me know if I need to go back and watch the rest of it. I’ve got to go read proofs now, and then I’ve got to put out tomorrow’s pages (Mike has to go home early today).
I’ll say one quick thing for him — he’s apparently learned how to do subtitles in Windows Movie Maker, a trick that I have not yet mastered.
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Is it just my computer or does this video clip keep pausing itself? However, I’m not impressed so far. He doesn’t like illegal immigrants. What else doesn’t he like? I might have watched the clip if it hadn’t kept pausing, but I have been rather impressed by Mr. Graham, even when I disagreed with him. I may well vote for him unless the democrats can produce someone that I find equally impressive, or unless the republicans dump one of their few remaining senators with vision and moral fiber.
This is just the beginning! There are other credible candidates that will come out at the right time. Many South Carolinians have had it with Lindsey’s behavior as a US Senator. Strom Thurmond he is NOT! Neither is Lindsey the senator that Strom was, but also he is definitely NOT the Man that Thurmond was!
While receiving an award from the un-American Council for La Raza, Lindsey made fun of the way we talk in the South, claiming that he was not sure if it was even English. To add salt to that wound, he proceeded to say that America “is an idea that does not belong to anyone.” And of course he ends this speech with his now infamous “bigot” statement that was meant, by the way, for anyone who opposed his illegal alien amnesty stance.
He also pushed for the soft treatment of captured terrorist. Never mind that they literally cut people’s throats, and let’s never forget what those terrorists did to US on 9/11.
As Lindsey so proudly said at the SC state GOP convention, “I can easily go back to Central and practice law.” As some shouted at the convention, please “Go Back To Central.” For his own good, Lindsey needs to come out of the liberal closet and come straight with the people of SC.
Don’t forget that he has never ran in a statewide GOP primary. It was handed down to him on a Silver Elephant platter, thanks to his manager Richard Quinn (also McCain’s SC manager), who managed to persuade$$$$ the likes of Warren Tompkins to not run anyone against Graham. That is how Lindsey got in. But he will not get a free ride this time.
We need a US Senator, who cannot be blackmailed, extorted and compromised, which means WE DON’T NEED LINDSEY!
Neither is Lindsey the senator that Strom was, but also he is definitely NOT the Man that Thurmond was!
-freesc2007
Thank goodness for that! As we now know Strom was quite the cad in his younger days. And he was a terrible senator. His leadership brought us nothing but loser status in every quality of life measure. I’ve never liked Lindsey much but this constant yamering by the wingnut right may just cause me to reconsider.
Actually, Bud, Thurmond and his staff worked at an awe-inspiring level of efficiency. The connections he established through his long service in Washington did South Carolina, and not just a few South Carolinians, quite a bit of good. If he told a constituent he would do something, or try to do it, he kept the promise. Few, if any, elected officials from our state have so much as sniffed the level of political skill at which he operated.
Yes, there were awkward moments in his later years. Yes, he made mistakes earlier in life. But to call him a cad and a terrible senator, well, heck, you might as well accuse him of speaking ill of the dead, something I feel sure he wouldn’t have wasted his time doing.