First on CNN: Graham ends his campaign for the White House
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
(30,058 posts)liberal N proud
(60,339 posts)And no one noticed.
Thud!
Renew Deal
(81,869 posts)And no one cares about Pataki and Gilmore. They should end the JV debates and put 10 candidates on stage.
rpannier
(24,333 posts)StevieM
(10,500 posts)Proserpina
(2,352 posts)leftofcool
(19,460 posts)femmocrat
(28,394 posts)yellowcanine
(35,701 posts)marmar
(77,086 posts)Botany
(70,552 posts).... 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
(70,272 posts)Botany
(70,552 posts)TygrBright
(20,763 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)than he is right. Occasionally, he is more than just wrong: Sometimes, hes 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 monthsand 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
(3,584 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,806 posts)47of74
(18,470 posts)TwilightGardener
(46,416 posts)Seriously, that was funny.
LannyDeVaney
(1,033 posts)given that bombing was his sole platform to address everything.
TexasBushwhacker
(20,209 posts)Santorum, Huckabee, Pataki, Gilmore, etc
rpannier
(24,333 posts)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
(24,333 posts)Yavin4
(35,445 posts)Can't wait for his "Hunger Games" take on this.
valerief
(53,235 posts)Journeyman
(15,037 posts)gvstn
(2,805 posts)wolfie001
(2,264 posts)Why in hell does SC even send this waste of space to the Senate?
oberliner
(58,724 posts)And that says something for the rest of the bunch!