Lindsey Graham and male escorts

[brettdale]

#LindseyGraham Is trending on Twitter

I have no problem if its all consensual.

Yes, hes the worlds biggest hypocrite, like most republicans.

The question has to be asked though, is this what Trump is blackmailing him with????

[LiberalArkie]

1. Probably, maybe even Lolita Express.. It had boys also.

[leftieNanner]

2. Although it is apparently an open secret in South Carolina

that he is gay, I wouldn't be surprised if this exposure is what Ass Face is holding over his head.

I couldn't care less about Lindsey's personal life, but I do care if he is being blackmailed as an influential member of the US Senate.

[fleur-de-lisa]

3. Thank you!

That is the issue, that a senator is most likely being blackmailed by the corrupt “president” who is being blackmailed by a hostile foreign power.

[Jarqui]

13. Agree

The people of South Carolina do not have a senator representing them.
They have a compromised senator doing the bidding of Trump/Putin/whoever.

I have absolutely nothing against his sexual preference. Whatever makes him happy is fine with me.

But he shouldn't be remaining in office if he's compromised.

South Carolina is not a LGBT friendly state.
It is a state that takes religion seriously.
News of gay escorts would probably cause him a significant problem politically.

It would explain his major flip-flop from hating Trump to being one of this biggest supporters in the Senate.

[leftieNanner]

14. I do not like the man

But it always makes me sad to think that someone lives a tortured life because they cannot live fully and comfortably as the person that they truly are inside.

Even if South Carolina is not a LGBT friendly state, they might be able to get over it if he had a husband. Gay escorts, not so much.

[Jarqui]

17. I had little respect for him before

but have no respect for him after supporting a man who spat on his dead friend.

I have some sympathy for anyone leading a tortured life like he appears to have. I can't pretend to fully appreciate it because I'm not gay. But I've had plenty of gay friends who have given me some appreciation for how painful the circumstances can be.

I think Graham and Trump are alike in terms of doing whatever will help them in the polls. This coming out into the mainstream media would hurt his election chances.

I'm not convinced it is just an escort service scandal. I wonder if it is something bigger than that.

[Me.]

21. I Hold No Quarter For Him

considering his anti-LGBTQ stances. and his support of anti leguslation. He will be reaping what he has sewn.

[malaise]

18. I care that he thinks his secret is more important than

the Constitution or the American people.
Fuck that fucking fuck!

[agingdem]

4. remember...

Trump's buddy is the National Enquirer guy...digging up salacious dirt is what keeps that rag going..and you can bet Trump has David Pecker on speed dial...

[HotTeaBag]

5. Great point.

He probably has a dossier on each and every one of those who were ardently anti-Trump prior to the election but then fell so suddenly in line.

Certainly, political considerations and the outright fear of Trump's base could and probably do play a role, but it is pretty uncanny how docile and cowed so many have become.

And they ALL have skeletons in their respective closets.

[rsdsharp]

6. Graham has been on the national scene for at least

25 years. He was one of the House managers in the Clinton impeachment. Is there anyone who doesn’t know he’s gay? Just because he hasn’t publically come out doesn’t mean it’s a secret. You can’t really blackmail someone with what is already known.

[Siwsan]

10. But, hypothetically, you can blackmail with issues that aren't generally known

Mr. Graham could be far more nuanced in his personal life than one might expect.

[Dream Girl]

11. Gay escorts is a different thing thIng

Although I’m not really sure there’s any to it. Still it the Enquirer came out with it, that would probably end it for him. All though SC evangelicals

[ResistantAmerican17]

12. rsdsharp... mea culpa. I was typing and missed your reply but I don't want it to look like

I’m sniping you..I would have just agreed, except if he came out, then the “kinda knowing” but looking the other way homophobic republicans would lose their out...just my opinion.

[BannonsLiver]

20. He's not out publicly

If he is actually gay there is a reason for not being out publicly and that reason is likely the source of his fear, whatever that might be.

[ResistantAmerican17]

7. This whole conversation vividly illustrates the problem

with people having some secret, any secret, that they will do anything to keep from coming out. They will do anything to keep it from coming out. If Lindsey Graham is gay—-then so what. Unlike republican hate mongers I couldn’t give less of a shit who a person chooses to love. That said I do wonder how he can sleep at night and remain a member of a homophobic reactionary right wing asshole party. If he was out, I guess that would fuck him within the repugnant party, but at least maybe he wouldn’t be spineless, morally reprehensible, and beholden to his secret keepers.

[leftieNanner]

16. I wonder how any of these guys can sleep at night!

But there have been so many tortured Republicans (gay, bi, curious) who are massively homophobic in their legislative positions - hiding their own "leanings". Larry Craig, Ed Schrock, Aaron Schock..................

[ZZenith]

8. That, and the millions of rubles with which he paid for said services.

[Kali]

9. stop this bullshit

[Iggo]

15. Okay, that's enough.

[ibegurpard]

19. Gay Republicans need to be outed

Period. If they want to belong to the party that continuously tries to deny my rights as a US citizen then they need to run and be elected as openly gay and let the chips fall where they may.
I DO NOT SUPPORT innuendo however. If there's proof he's gay he needs to be forced to own it. If not then people need to quit the bullshit.