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PCIntern

(25,556 posts)
Wed Feb 10, 2021, 11:17 PM Feb 2021

I'm gonna go out on a big limb....

In a lifetime of watching politicians, many of whom were hypocritical, lying, and/or corrupt, I must say that absolutely no politician has revolted me as much as Lindsay Graham does. At one time, Orrin Hatch was my clear winner but he’s been eclipsed.

Trump does not qualify as a politician: he’s a psychopathic war criminal.

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I'm gonna go out on a big limb.... (Original Post) PCIntern Feb 2021 OP
For me it's Ted Cruz. Joinfortmill Feb 2021 #1
Same! TuxedoKat Feb 2021 #6
I know what you mean. ShazzieB Feb 2021 #23
So many to pick from Blue Owl Feb 2021 #2
Republican Senators provide "an embarrassment of riches" in the corrupt politician category. hay rick Feb 2021 #26
That's no limb ... it's hardly a branch. live love laugh Feb 2021 #3
About Watergate...vs Trump Stuart G Feb 2021 #4
Newt C_U_L8R Feb 2021 #5
Newt's picture is next to the definition of backpfeifengesicht. nt crickets Feb 2021 #14
I didn't know what backpfeifengesicht meant, so I googled. ShazzieB Feb 2021 #25
Oh, oops! crickets Feb 2021 #29
Josh Hawley Mz Pip Feb 2021 #7
Mitch McConnell nt drmeow Feb 2021 #8
Ditto here 👎👎👎 ailsagirl Feb 2021 #32
Seems like each new crop stillcool Feb 2021 #9
Ted Cruz is worse, he's the guy who reheats fish in the office microwave and doesn't understand... uponit7771 Feb 2021 #10
Lol Solomon Feb 2021 #17
Just wait until Ron DeSantis runs for president. (eom) StevieM Feb 2021 #11
my trophy goes to.... barbtries Feb 2021 #12
I'm going to have to adopt a top 5 or something because there are getting to be too ooky Feb 2021 #13
can you imagine how bad the kompromat on Lindsey must be Skittles Feb 2021 #15
For me the question is which Rethug is NOT revolting. Tommymac Feb 2021 #16
All I am saying... Is give Hawley a chance.... nt Gore1FL Feb 2021 #18
List of trairors marieo1 Feb 2021 #19
Well, Jesse Helms still hold the title for me...... lastlib Feb 2021 #20
Helms was pretty awful, all right. ShazzieB Feb 2021 #28
Ted and the Turtle mgardener Feb 2021 #21
I understand, but damn, there are so many to choose from! Hekate Feb 2021 #22
So many of them to choose from n/t hibbing Feb 2021 #24
The GOP does not qualify as a political party anymore unless they convict Trump. hadEnuf Feb 2021 #27
Tes, I'd say Graham is a world-crass craven politician. Nitram Feb 2021 #30
I believe Graham nevergiveup Feb 2021 #31
Mitch McConnell gets my vote Crash2Parties Feb 2021 #33
He's also a sadomasochist lunatica Feb 2021 #34
Yup, but like to add Ron Johnson & Gohmert Cozmo Feb 2021 #35
Mitch McConnell Olafjoy Feb 2021 #36

TuxedoKat

(3,818 posts)
6. Same!
Wed Feb 10, 2021, 11:30 PM
Feb 2021

He’s revolting; makes my skin crawl when I see or hear him. Unctuous is the word that comes to mind.

ShazzieB

(16,426 posts)
23. I know what you mean.
Thu Feb 11, 2021, 12:56 AM
Feb 2021

Graham is a disgusting, two-faced pos, but there's something viscerally repellent about Cruz that makes him uniquely repugnant to me. Graham is a very, very bad man, but Cruz is like something that just slimed its way out pf a sewer and still has the contents of that sewer clinging to it. *shudder*

live love laugh

(13,118 posts)
3. That's no limb ... it's hardly a branch.
Wed Feb 10, 2021, 11:23 PM
Feb 2021

Graham permanently disgusted me during the supreme court confirmation.

ShazzieB

(16,426 posts)
25. I didn't know what backpfeifengesicht meant, so I googled.
Thu Feb 11, 2021, 01:02 AM
Feb 2021

And then I laughed my ass off!

For anyone else who doesn't know that word, here's what it means, according to Google: "a face in need of a fist."

Still cackling to myself here.

crickets

(25,981 posts)
29. Oh, oops!
Thu Feb 11, 2021, 01:10 AM
Feb 2021

I should have included the definition. I'm glad you looked it up and laughed. It does fit him! 😄

Mz Pip

(27,451 posts)
7. Josh Hawley
Wed Feb 10, 2021, 11:30 PM
Feb 2021

makes me want to puke. He and Graham, Ted Cruz and Ron Johnson need to start a band playing nothing but kazoos.

stillcool

(32,626 posts)
9. Seems like each new crop
Wed Feb 10, 2021, 11:37 PM
Feb 2021

Bests the previous. MCconnell is closest to the drain for me these days, but I have been limiting my exposure.

uponit7771

(90,347 posts)
10. Ted Cruz is worse, he's the guy who reheats fish in the office microwave and doesn't understand...
Wed Feb 10, 2021, 11:38 PM
Feb 2021

... why people are mad at him

barbtries

(28,799 posts)
12. my trophy goes to....
Wed Feb 10, 2021, 11:45 PM
Feb 2021

McConnell. graham is just as disgusting but doesn't have the power or the guile.

there's nary a republican left i don't despise. and i have to spend this trial calling 2 of them over and over.

ooky

(8,924 posts)
13. I'm going to have to adopt a top 5 or something because there are getting to be too
Wed Feb 10, 2021, 11:51 PM
Feb 2021

many bad choices for lifetime most horrible politician to choose just one when so many in the current Republican party make me want to puke.

But Graham has certainly been lobbying hard to get there. He’s really checking a lot of boxes these days.

Skittles

(153,169 posts)
15. can you imagine how bad the kompromat on Lindsey must be
Thu Feb 11, 2021, 12:20 AM
Feb 2021

to make him seem even more disgusting than we already know him to be?

marieo1

(1,402 posts)
19. List of trairors
Thu Feb 11, 2021, 12:46 AM
Feb 2021

I have a whole list of traitors and everyone that was mentioned here is on my list - plus Lauren Boebert, Stephen Miller, Rand Paul, Marco Rubio, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Matt Gaetz, and Rob Portmen. I included these slugs on my list along with Josh Hawley, Mitch McConnell, Ted Cruz, Lindsey Graham!! This is my list so far and I'm sure there will be more to be added to my list.

lastlib

(23,248 posts)
20. Well, Jesse Helms still hold the title for me......
Thu Feb 11, 2021, 12:49 AM
Feb 2021

But, God help us, there are a dirty-dozen in this miserable crop giving ol' Jesse a run for his money! MoscowMitch, Lindsey, Raffy, Hawley, Rubio, Johnson, Paul, Blackburn, Lee, Scott (FL), Tillis, Cotton....and we've got TuberHead, Marshall, and Hagerty warming up in the bullpen.......JEEEEzus!!

And that doesn't even START to count Jordan, Nunes, Gomer, et al. in the House.......

ShazzieB

(16,426 posts)
28. Helms was pretty awful, all right.
Thu Feb 11, 2021, 01:08 AM
Feb 2021

When I lived in NC in the 80s, there were people (including some good friends of mine) driving around with bumper stickers that said, "I'm from North Carolina, and I DON'T support Jesse Helms!" That's how bad he was.

Hekate

(90,714 posts)
22. I understand, but damn, there are so many to choose from!
Thu Feb 11, 2021, 12:56 AM
Feb 2021

Lindsay, though...with his refined sensibilities and his faux vapors, is in a category of his own. To avoid trouble here I generally refer to him as a spineless limp worm.

Speaking of the worm family, every time I’ve ever seen Ted Cruz I’ve been reminded of a slug, and I just want to grab my salt-shaker.

hadEnuf

(2,194 posts)
27. The GOP does not qualify as a political party anymore unless they convict Trump.
Thu Feb 11, 2021, 01:07 AM
Feb 2021

Enough is enough. They let him skate and they are all terrorists just like he is.

nevergiveup

(4,762 posts)
31. I believe Graham
Thu Feb 11, 2021, 01:14 AM
Feb 2021

is mentally challenged so I don't pay any attention to him. On the other hand, Ted Cruz and Adolph Hawley are dangerous and the scum of the earth.

Crash2Parties

(6,017 posts)
33. Mitch McConnell gets my vote
Thu Feb 11, 2021, 01:45 AM
Feb 2021

Two years into President Obama's first term, McConnell vowed to obstruct everything he could. Then after the 2010 Census he began helping enact project redmap, a massive redistricting effort using census data to carefully calculate where lines needed to be drawn. To make it happen, the GOP dumped massive amounts of outside money into local & state races that had never seen such funding; Dems didn't stand a chance. From there, McConnell blocked hearings for everything from Federal Judges to the USPS board so that the next GOP President could fill them. Along the way, McConnell enabled the building of the party platforms that merged Christian zealots, the Tea Party, and others into the GOP. This whole time, McConnell's rules were simple: change the rules to whatever gave the GOP more power. He built Trump's Resurrection, then when it failed he slunk away, turned around and pretended to object to what happened. But make no mistake, if Trump is acquitted McConnell will assist his return to power. Oh, did I forget personal grift? He wouldn't be a good Republican without it.

lunatica

(53,410 posts)
34. He's also a sadomasochist
Thu Feb 11, 2021, 01:45 AM
Feb 2021

I’m serious. It’s the only explanation I can come up with to explain him. He’s mean as hell AND he loves being slapped around. Kisses up and kicks down.

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