While you were watching the GOP debate:

[brooklynite]

@FrankthorpNBC
Sen Graham at the #WPCFDinner: "If you kill Ted Cruz on the floor of the Senate, and the trial is at the Senate, no one will convict you."

[valerief]

1. That's beautiful!!!!

[procon]

2. Lindsey...He really said that?

Bless his little rhinestone studded heart.

[Maeve]

6. He may not have much to endear him to us, but he CAN dish! eom

[Ilsa]

29. Here's a link:

Go to about 1:10 in the video in the OP:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1017333558

Except for the ugly digs at Sec. Clinton and Sen. Sanders, he was pretty funny.

[dixiegrrrrl]

3. I don't believe him, I dare him to prove it.

[dchill]

26. Snort!

[malthaussen]

4. You know what? That's irresponsible.

Ted Cruz is, unquestionably, lower than dog excrement on the sole of one's shoe, but implicitly advocating his murder is not acceptable conduct. There is supposed to be a degree of dignity in the Senate: if Mr Cruz erodes that, it does not excuse another Senator doing so as well.

-- Mal

[brooklynite]

5. I think this was a riff on Trump's "I could shoot someone on 5th Ave and still win" comment...

[malthaussen]

7. Very possible

But the point still stands. Lowering the discourse is a sure-fired way to get ten seconds of fame (or a longer period, in Mr Trump's case). At this point, discourse in the U.S. has been so lowered that even people ostensibly on the same team insult each other. Frankly, I'm no fan of Thomas Hobbes, and I am not happy with a war of all against all.

-- Mal

[maddiemom]

20. I thought so too.

He shouldn't have expected his audience to get it.

[Jim Beard]

36. Lindsey is just jealous tRUMP is getting naster than himself.

Lindsey is a turd.

[Ilsa]

30. Didn't really advocate for it.

He just wanted tk point out that no one in the Senate would convict the killer.

Yes, it was tasteless, but far from the comments some have made on the www how our country's well-being depends on certain people encountering an early death at some "hero's" hands.

[oldandhappy]

8. I am more afraid of Cruz than any others. He is vicious.

[hifiguy]

9. Not to mention crazier than a shithouse rat

He's a walking smorgasbord of severe mental pathologies.

[the zound of zilence]

13. Speaking of Stephen King...

doesn't Cruz look like something out of a horror novel?

[hifiguy]

16. IMO he looks like a half-melted waxwork

of Bill Murray playing Grandpa Munster.

[kairos12]

17. Crazy Presidential candidate Greg Stillson from The

Dead Zone.

[the zound of zilence]

19. You Nailed It!

[etherealtruth]

28. Yep ... he is "evil" and crazy n/t

[Dont call me Shirley]

33. He is pervert creepy.

[peace13]

10. It is irresponsible to say that.

Unprofessional a basically a low life comment. Even. If it were true and especially if it is true.

[Punx]

11. I just listened to most of this on Thom Hartmann

And it came across to me as a pretty decent "Stand Up" routine. A lot of truth in what he said and pretty funny. And he was clearly not being serious about the "kill Ted Cruz" remark.

Not that I would give Sen Graham an "gram" of power if it was up to me.

[SharpshooterTom]

12. Trump's changing the art of political speak.

Its all about who insults who the best. The game of politics has become like a reality TV show.

Trump is teaching them all to speak without a filter.

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

40. We've been getting that sort of lowbrow, unfiltered speak

in Maine from our governor for a few years now. This is nothing new, although I still don't like it.

[eggplant]

14. Oh, come on. He did say "if"... n/t

[Katashi_itto]

15. Thats because Ted Cruz is the Zodiac Killer.

[passiveporcupine]

34. Yep, on reddit he is

they had a funny list of why he was, but didn't save the link and now can't find it.

[surrealAmerican]

18. It sounds like Senator Graham has a plan ...

... although it's hard to imagine him getting his own hands dirty.

[liberalnarb]

21. Never thought i'd agree with that guy.

[Major Nikon]

22. Perhaps not, but you'll be indicted by the House if you get a blowjob

[B Calm]

23. Or impeached. .

[Feeling the Bern]

38. Or forced out if you show your dick to someone in a sext.

[ashling]

24. But why waste the Senate's time?

Trump will shoot him in the middle of Fifth Avenue

and his followers would still worship him

[davidthegnome]

25. Okay, that one cracked me up.

Never thought I'd find Graham amusing, but that was good.

[mainstreetonce]

27. It's a shame he didn't stay in the race

just to participate in the slime throwing

He's the most fun.

[NCjack]

31. Lindsey has a low opinion of his fellow Senators commitment to the rule-of-law. I know

he meant his "joke" to be a joke, but it's not a good one.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

32. Hate Cruz, but joking about assassinating politicians anywhere is stupid

... especially when the 'joker' is himself a politician.

But of course Republicans are most likely to suggest assassination. Bullies and thugs mostly.

[Historic NY]

35. Well the Senate hasn't had a good caning since 1851.....

[oberliner]

37. What a disgusting thing to say

What is wrong with these people?

[davidpdx]

39. He's such a drama queen