Lindsey Graham: If You Try to Drive Trump Out of the GOP, 'Half the People Will Leave'

[brooklynite]

Mediaite

Senator Lindsey Graham (R- SC) has made it clear over the past week he wants the GOP to embrace Donald Trump as its leader and thinks the party can’t move forward without him.

Fox News’ Martha MacCallum spoke with Graham Tuesday and asked him about Senator Joni Ernst (R- IA) deeming the House GOP vote to oust Liz Cheney as “cancel culture.”

Graham took issue with that and said, “You’re not entitled to be a leader. You have to earn that right. And if people don’t think you’re leading them well, they can fire you.”

He said Cheney lost the confidence of House Republicans because “she’s trying to make the argument that the Republican party is better off without Donald Trump, that he’s disqualified from being a member of the Republican party, that he should never be allowed to pursue office again."

So, win-win?

[nocoincidences]

1. Lindsey, you are not smart enough

to figure this out. Stop trying.

[joetheman]

22. Lindsey, half the people have already left! Come back to the planet. nt

[Roy Rolling]

39. It's a win-win

Driving the former guy back underground and cutting card-carrying Republicans by half.

Please, carry on.

[cloudbase]

2. You can only sell your integrity once, Lindsey.

If you're going to do it, make sure you don't sell it at a fire sale price.

[COL Mustard]

26. It's His Pearl Of Great Price

And he sold it long ago.

[Polly Hennessey]

3. I am guessing it will be the worst half.

You may join them Mr. Lindsey.

[EarlG]

4. Unfortunately for Graham

If you keep Trump in the GOP, half the people will leave.

[marble falls]

5. And we all know which half you'll fall in with, Lindsey.

[dickthegrouch]

6. Fantastic!!!!

I can’t think of a better way to neuter the entire deplorable crowd.

[babylonsister]

7. Sounds like a dream. nt

[2naSalit]

8. Yeah, okay, hope they get right on that asap.

[bdamomma]

9. good let

them go, they are not dealing in reality, just lies and propaganda.

[Paladin]

10. Lindsey is a dirty little pimp.

When the infatuation with trump ends, Lindsey will be begging forgiveness for the error of his ways. I hope such forgiveness is never granted.

[LizBeth]

11. No they won't because they hate Democrats, women blacks gays enough, they will

always stand strong with republicans.

[Freethinker65]

12. But Trump will always have Lindsey!

[enough]

13. Half? He just gave the game away. They're all pretending that ALL Republicans

love Trump.

[Maraya1969]

14. If true this is fantastic news.

[gratuitous]

15. Pretty harsh words from Sen. Graham

Sen. Ernst, are you just going to let him talk to you that way?

Any other smoldering fires I can sprinkle with gasoline?

[smirkymonkey]

16. Is there anyone left in the republican party who is more pathetic & obsequious than Lindsey Graham?

What a sad little man. He doesn't even realize that he's bought a ticket in steerage on the Titanic.

[COL Mustard]

27. After It Hit The Iceberg!!!

[Atticus]

17. Is there no one left in the GOP with the spine to say "Don't let the doorknob hit ya

where the good Lord split ya"?

[JohnSJ]

18. Translation---if you try to drive the racist, bigot from the party, the Republican Party will lose

75% of the of the party

[OAITW r.2.0]

19. That is your reality, Lindsey.

Question is, do you want to be part of the sane or insane part of your Party?

[uponit7771]

20. TOO FUCKIN BAD !!!!

[Under The Radar]

21. Half? You are asking the entire party to sell their souls for 50%

[kacekwl]

23. Maybe if you Lindsey and the rest of the dummy party

hadn't lied to your voters about who trump was (you all knew cause you all said so at one time) and stood up for them and yourselves the nightmare of the last four years might have never happened.

[stopdiggin]

24. and go where?

it's not like we have a (viable) Nazi party. So where do the true believers end up?

[dugog55]

25. Leave what? Their sanity or reason? The GOP has been a shit show since the 80's,

unless they are leaving to become Independents or Dems they are not leaving anything. Any Republican that voted for Trump, and there were 70+ million of them, are all in one bucket. Whether they participated in the Insurrection, approved of it, or disapproved of it, they are still Republicans and they are all the same. They are small Government, big business, racist, misogynist losers. And I will add, anti-American. Literally none of their beliefs are in true spirit America for Americans.

I've got friends that voted for Trump, they said they do not like him but approve of his policies. What policies? Trump voters and Republicans are beyond reach and help. If and when they get control of the government again, it will be the death of America as we knew it.

[RoadRising]

28. Tell it to the former guy, Graham

“You’re not entitled to be a leader. You have to earn that right. And if people don’t think you’re leading them well, they can fire you.”

[NQAS]

29. Will we ever know what prompted Graham's slavish adoration of trump after calling him a kook years a

Or, for that matter, McCarthy's 180 re the insurrection?

Is it money? Blackmail? Sheer cravenness? Some psychological condition? Promises of something?

I really shouldn't want to know. It's enough to know that they are vile. But from a historical perspective it sure would be helpful to understand these kinds of turnabouts.

[SunSeeker]

31. He realized the GOP base was fine with the insurrection. nt

[YoshidaYui]

30. That OTHER HALF would be smart, and not follow a Criminal Insurrectionist

and Traitor to the US Constitution for which he swore an oath to upheld, like everything else,! Donald J. Trump set out to burn it all down and is still trying to do so.

[WarGamer]

32. It's far more than half.

[Warpy]

33. Nxon's people and Reagan's people

and losing those two bunches of radical reactionaries is the only way to salvage your party.

Otherwise, the sane ones will register iNdie or Dem and you'll have lost their votes by driving the sanity away. Fence sitters will follow the sane people and the Republican Party will end up in the elephants; graveyard in a few election cycles.

Getting the GeeOhPee back to some semblance of sanity can still get swing votes. The Dumdum Party, no matter what it;s called, will not. There will be few converts to a party with an aging star and no policies.

[Pachamama]

34. And our democracy saved in process....

What is his point?

[SmartVoter22]

35. Sounds Like A Plan

Let's try it.
What could go wrong....I mean for normal, logicially thinking people.
You know, adult humans.

I can't see it being a problem for the Trumpiest of Trumpies, either.
They will have a better opportunity to start their own political party.

If they can fill out the FEC campaign finance forms.

Setting up a checking account is soooo damn hard.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

36. And Lindsey will be so lonely

[tavernier]

37. He says that like it's a bad thing.

[Trueblue1968]

38. Drive Trump Out of the GOP and into a MAXIMUM SECURITY JAIL. Jail for REST OF HIS LIFE

BREAD AND WATER AND HARD LABOR.


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[cherish44]

40. Well, this is a case of the trash taking itself out then

nt

[The Unmitigated Gall]

41. Linsey Vapors

Profile in Courage, Bedrock Principle.

[bucolic_frolic]

42. Party of privilege and money worships allegedly wealthy gold-plated crook

Yawn.

[twodogsbarking]

43. They all have lots of guns.

What could go wrong.

I just read where a two year old (Maine) shot both his parents with one shot.
They will survive. The father was shot in the head so brain injury is unlikely.

[ShepKat]

44. so...

We have to keep living with the abuser so his co abusers won't leave ? How much friggin' sense does that make ?