First on CNN: Graham ends his campaign for the White House

[brooklynite]

Source: CNN

Senator Lindsey Graham is ending his presidential campaign, he told CNN during an exclusive interview airing Monday.

"I'm going to suspend my campaign. I'm not going to suspend my desire to help the country," the South Carolina senator said in a wide-ranging and candid discussion in which he acknowledged: "I've hit a wall here."

He is planning to make the official announcement in an email to supporters Monday morning.


Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2015/12/21/politics/lindsey-graham-2016-campaign-drops-out/index.html

[Thinkingabout]

1. Now the GOP does not have a strong foreign policy candidate.

[liberal N proud]

2. Another clown falls out of the car

And no one noticed.

Thud!

[Renew Deal]

3. They're down to 12

And no one cares about Pataki and Gilmore. They should end the JV debates and put 10 candidates on stage.

[rpannier]

20. Does that make lindsay Jesus or Judas?

[StevieM]

26. Actually, there are thirteen candidates remaining (including Gilmore and Pataki). (eom)

[Proserpina]

4. I thank his God for mercy granted.

[leftofcool]

5. Drama much, Lindsey?

[femmocrat]

6. .

[yellowcanine]

7. I guess Benghazi wasn't a winning message after all.

[marmar]

8. To which most people said, "He's still in it?"

[Botany]

9. Never forget that Lindsey Graham and Lara Logan made up a totally false story about Benghazi .....

.... and then put it on 60 minutes in order to undermine the President. And don't get me
started about Lindsey and the 7 year 77 million $ b.j. hunt called "Whitewater."


Lindsey is an example of the problem in the Republican Party and our "liberal media."

[riversedge]

11. Thanks for the reminder.

[Botany]

14. Boder line sedition

riversedge

[TygrBright]

10. Oh, was he running, too? n/t

[Hortensis]

12. "Lindsey Graham is, in fact, far more often wrong

than he is right. Occasionally, he is more than just wrong: Sometimes, he’s completely out of his mind. In a town filled with threat-mongers, fear-merchants, and hand-wringers, there is no one mongering more threats, selling more fear and wringing more hands than Sen. Graham."

THAT was from almost a year ago, in a Foreign Policy journal article: "Lindsey Graham: Wrong on Everything. The senator from the great state of South Carolina is considering a run for president, based on his foreign-policy prowess. Yikes." I wonder if the author doesn't now think this particular fear-monger, too moderate for the GOP base, actually looked pretty good compared to the rest of the lineup?

"Everything I learned about Iranians I learned working in the pool room…I met a lot of liars, and I know the Iranians are lying." —May 22, 2015, Lindsey Graham speaking at a conference about his job in a pool hall as a young man."

"I believe that if we get Syria wrong, within six months—and you can quote me on this, there will be a war between Iran and Israel over their nuclear program." Senator Graham in September 2013 as he explained that President Obama WAS doing everything wrong.

"Al Qaeda, Al Nusra, Al Qaeda in the Arab Peninsula…Everything that starts with 'Al' in the Middle East is bad news" —May 3, 2015, while delivering the keynote speech at an American-Israel Public Affairs Coalition event.

Good riddance to one of the GOP lineup's best.

[Chiyo-chichi]

13. ..."don't lose it."

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

15. Huh. I probably wouldn't have noticed for weeks.

[47of74]

16. Time for a Lindsey FLUSH

[TwilightGardener]

17. Highlight of Goober's campaign: Donald Trump giving out his phone number on TV.

Seriously, that was funny.

[LannyDeVaney]

18. Somewhat ironic that his campaign has bombed ...

given that bombing was his sole platform to address everything.

[TexasBushwhacker]

19. So when will the rest at the kids table drop out

Santorum, Huckabee, Pataki, Gilmore, etc

[rpannier]

22. Pataki and Gilmore probably not until Feb

They're non entities and they haven't spent much on their campaigns
My guess is they are either bored or they're trying to become relevant to position for a cabinet post

on edit: they could be trying to play the part of the token moderate

[rpannier]

21. He was running?

[Yavin4]

23. Cue Stephen Colbert

Can't wait for his "Hunger Games" take on this.

[valerief]

24. And the world asks, "Graham who?"

[Journeyman]

25. Why email his supporters? They'll all be over to the house for Christmas later this week . . .

[gvstn]

28. That is what I was thinking.

[wolfie001]

27. Sen. Faux Poutrage

Why in hell does SC even send this waste of space to the Senate?

[oberliner]

29. He may have been the most reasonable of the bunch

And that says something for the rest of the bunch!