Lindsey Graham’s A Whole Lot Crazier Than You Think
I read somewhere last week that at some point after the election, Lindsey Graham called President Joe Biden to try to make up and be friends again. Joe ignored him.
Lindsey tried again by sending a message that he only attacked Hunter Biden during the election to appease the Trump voters in his district. It is brutally obvious that Lindsey does not have any children because, not surprisingly, that didn’t work either. The first rule of living in a civilized world is that you do not ever attack someone’s children to hurt the parent. If you do, they will kill you and then they will eat you.
Lindsey seems to be at his wit’s end to want Joe’s love and attention.
For years I wondered what dirt John McCain had on Lindsey. And then, I suspected that Trump had worse dirt.
But, I think maybe the Pulitzer prize winning guys at the New York Times have a better explanation.
Yet what emerges from interviews with more than 60 people close to him, and with the senator himself, is a narrative less of transformation than of gyration — of an infinitely adaptable operator seeking validation in the proximity to power. It is that yearning for relevance, rooted in what he and others described as a childhood of privation and loss, that makes Mr. Graham’s story more than just a case study of political survival in the age of Trump.
He just wants you to look at him. He wants to be relevant. You know, I can understand and forgive somebody doing something because they are scared. But for ego? Nah.
It’s a long article, but it’s good.
Isn’t this the same guy who adopted his niece (?) rather than just set up a simple guardianship? Sounds like he was into the “see me” situation from a long, long time ago.
1Lots of us had far-from-ideal parents. Lindsey gets less than nothing from me in the way of sympathy for his scumbag ways. He needs to retire from the Senate and be a full-time caddy for trump. There’s no longer any place in the civilized world for him.
2I read the article. It was quite enlightening.
Traumatic childhoods create mental illness and mental illness created both Graham and Trump.
But I guess we knew that already.
3I’ve nearly given up on trying to ‘understand’ the motives of Republicans of nearly any stripe.
they make no sense to me. they appear unlikely to change by anything I do. they aren’t likely to change much of anything I do, with possible exceptions of making me question anything I do that aligns with them or where I spend money in making donations to their opponents.
4I’ve always thought of him a chameleon that changes from one stance to another depending on who he’s trying to get favor from. The story was long but a couple things stuck out to me. When he told his old law partner that 85% of politicians in DC would sell their mother to stay in power, he was talking about himself first. He’s done that over and over. He basically sold his dignity more than once to gain trumpf’s favor while turning on his friends, all to stay in some position of power. I just hope his trumpf ass kissing will take him down in disgrace in the end.
5“When I lied about your son, I was only trying to get votes. It wasn’t personal, it was just business.”
So admirable that he has the same moral principles as the mafia.
6I kinda wish Biden would take his calls. I know that would produce bad PR for both of them from their respective political parties, but if Lindsey needs a mentor, I would prefer a whole lot that it be Biden rather than McTurtle.
7Graham defines oleaginous.
8The GOP in South Carolina is censoring him for voting for the infrastructure bill. When a political party censures you for a vote you know that common sense and reason are gone. I don’t know how anyone with an ounce of humanity or integrity survives in this GOP.
9Ormond- yes- and unctuous and smarmy. And yes, I had to look it up but he is all those things.
10I also don’t think he knows what he stands for anymore, if he ever did.
Elise Stefanik is the female Lindsay Grahm
11In a political fight you can come at me as hard as you can as long as you are telling the truth. You lie about me I’m coming after you. You lie about my child and I’m coming after you to cut your balls off…problematic in this case since Lindsey doesn’t have any.
12If he did that to my kids, I might kill him but not eat him. I’d just throw him to the hungry catfish in the bayou.
13slipstream@6: The traditional mafia leaves the families out of ‘the business’. Some of the newer upstarts, not so much.
Steve@12: With today’s GOP, you can come at anyone or anything as hard as you can, as long as you aren’t telling the truth. Telling the truth gets you expelled from the party.
14He’s got the personality of a pilot fish, swimming alongside the shark to eat the scraps.
15It still enrages me to remember how he acted during the Cavanaugh hearing. I will never get over that pretend hissy fit he put on. Almost gave me a real one.. Love you J.J.
Deb
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