Graham: GOP 'not going to be the party of angry white guys'

[jefferson_dem]

Graham: GOP 'not going to be the party of angry white guys'
Posted: October 13th, 2009 01:35 PM ET

From CNN Political Producer Peter Hamby


Sen. Lindsey Graham spoke at a town hall in South Carolina on Monday.
(CNN) – South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham has always enjoyed a little back-and-forth with belligerent audiences.

He was at it again on Monday night as he faced down an angry town hall crowd in Greenville packed with libertarians and Tea Party activists who accused at the Republican senator of ditching conservative principles by working with Democrats on issues like climate change and voting to send Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court.

But Graham stressed a mantra he's repeated many times since his friend John McCain lost the presidential election last November — that the GOP must reach out to different constituencies, or face extinction.

"I'm not going to leave the Republican Party," Graham said when one questioned asked him why he hasn't yet joined the Democrats. "I'm going to grow it. We're not going to be the party of angry white guys."

His comments were met with a salvo of boos and shouts of "Ron Paul!"

"I love this party," he responded. "I'm not going to be let it be hijacked by Ron Paul."

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VIDEO of Graham getting teabagged
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nH2_nb4INSU
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAEW2BjKfgU

[SemiCharmedQuark]

1. Why? Did he invent a time machine to head back to 1980?

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. Too late! It's already the party of angry white guys!

:P

[MUAD_DIB]

5. Damn you! I wanted to write that! 22222222222222 Late!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

6. I'm sorry....

Can't help the timing!

Oh, BTW...I love your username!


:hi:

[MUAD_DIB]

9. Oh, well. You drew and fired first...and hit a republican. ;D

[and-justice-for-all]

23. Me too, drat!! nt

[calimary]

10. And it's been hijacked by FAR more berzerko assholes than ron paul.

[thunder rising]

3. Wait for it: Graham switches parties. States "Yeah, I'm a DINO. But I'm a better Dem than B Nelson"

That would not just be funny ... but true.

[Arugula Latte]

4. They should just change GOP to AWGP and get it over with.

[Obamacare]

8. Rofl

When you hear the name Ron Paul, you know the rethugs have thrown in the towel and gone back to the drawing board.lol

[Happyhippychick]

7. Instead it will be the party of irate caucasian males!

[DearAbby]

11. he has his Ah ha moment

but it's too late...the GOP is the party of old angry white guys. :gameshowbuzzer:

[harry_pothead]

12. And he said that to a town hall of angry white guys.

He does get a bit of huevos respect for that. Just a little though.

[quaker bill]

13. I do not believe

that he has the power or personal charisma needed to change this. The problem is that once the AWGs take over, they create an environment in which only more AWGs will be comfortable. It is rather like a snowball rolling down a slope, at somepoint the positive feedback loop dominates the dynamic and becomes in itself more powerful than any individual or small group of actors can alter. Only a decade or so of harsh losses will change this.

AWGs take being politically active and truly powerless for only so long, then they go fishing or pick up another hobby.

[zbdent]

14. It's getting to be you can't swing a dead cat at a town hall meeting

without hitting a white Republican ...

hmm ... that may not be such a bad idea ...

now where did I put my dead cat ...

[BeyondGeography]

15. They'll have to change their tagline then

Vote Republican
Because I'm white, and so are you

[Cass]

19. ROFL!!

:rofl:

[uponit7771]

25. +1

[Orsino]

16. GOP SOP: rebrand rather than change. n/t

[KingFlorez]

17. He knows what the future demographics are

He's well aware of how to play the game, the change in demographics isn't good for Republicans.

[uponit7771]

26. They're stuck for a generation, until the base GOP voters who care about race die off they'll

...lose a lot of lelectionss

[firedupdem]

18. Too late buddy...and all the tap dancing Mike Steele does won't

change it for you.

[brentspeak]

20. At least Ron Paul isn't on the take from corporations, like 99% of the rest of the GOP

Some of what Paul advocates is ridiculous (total "every man for himself" economics), but some of it makes sense (getting rid of the Fed, for instance).

[jefferson_dem]

21. Ron Paul is the kookiest of all the kooks in the US Congress.

Still, his followers make him seem sane.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

22. No, it will be the party of whining angry white guys who think they are victims

More and more, the GOP and its leaders like Rush Limbaugh are infantilizing themselves by constantly whining about their victimhood. Everyone is picking on them, abusing them, using their tax money, and disrespecting them. In the case of Diaper Dave Vitter, he has taken infantilization to a whole new level.

[Cha]

24. Isn't it a lit-tle late for that tense? "going to be"?

How about.."we need to change the position of the gop's party of angry white guys to the party of peace and love"?:hippie:

What does ron paul have?..anything besides the usual gop bullshit?