| Graham-Paul Dispute Highlights GOP Fissure | | Print | |
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Ron Paul responded on CNN's Situation Room October 14 that Graham's attack was unfair. “For him to ... say that everybody who is upset with the government and upset with his type of voting record are angry white people or angry men, that is preposterous. That is a real insult.” Rep. Paul termed his rallies “very diverse.” The controversy highlights the growing fissure among members of the Republican Party nationwide. Prompted by outbursts from loud, rude, but exceptionally well-informed voters, the liberal and interventionist Graham told the audience he was a pro-life conservative while being taunted with chants “Sotamayor,” reminding him and the other members of the audience about his vote to put pro-abortion liberal Sonia Sotamayor on the Supreme Court. Graham told the audience that he was staying in the Republican Party and “I'm not going to let it get hijacked by Ron Paul. I'm not a libertarian.” Graham then went on the attack against Rep. Paul, saying that “we're not going to be the Ron Paul party.” Graham then falsely told the audience that “Ron Paul is a fiscal conservative, but he said George Bush was a war criminal.” Asked on MSNBC's Ed Show about his supporters' boisterous — but unquestionably well-informed — antics at Greenville's Furman University, Rep. Paul noted that he advises his followers to follow the rules of polite society, a practice he personally practices. “I tell them to use the proper decorum.... Even when Bush was president, and I just couldn't stand his foreign policy, I never went after President Bush... and I don't do this with Obama.” The leftist host of MSNBC's Ed Show, Ed Schultz, was undoubtedly reveling in the fissure among Republicans. “It looks like you are becoming a target of the Republican Party. How do you feel about that?” Rep. Paul stressed that every House Republican has cosponsored his Audit the Fed bill, H.R. 1207: “What about the fact that I have every single Republican on the audit bill in the House of Representatives?” Rep. Paul also has 120 Democratic sponsors for the legislation. Graham told the Furman University audience that “I'm not going to leave the party; I'm going to grow the party.” But with the notable exception of Rep. Paul's presidential campaign last year, many GOP rallies last year did indeed look like Grand Old Party (with an emphasis on the word “old”) rallies. The neo-conservative wing of the Republican Party represented by Graham represents an aging and shrinking electoral demographic. Rep. Paul told the Ed Show that “we're the ones who reach the college kids, the young people. How many Republicans really reach the teenagers and the college kids. Those are the people that are gathering at our rallies. And they have to ask why. What are they going to do with the party ... pandering to the old country club Republicans and acting like Democrats and bailout funds and TARP funds? Those kind of things just won't hold up for the Republican Party. That's why the Republican Party has been losing. And we're suggesting that they live up to what they profess to believe in.” Photo: AP Images
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Brian Frank
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An outburst at an angry South Carolina town hall meeting has exemplified the growing fissure in the Republican Party across the nation. “We're not going to be the party of angry white guys," liberal Republican Senator Lindsay Graham 
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Ron Paul videos responding to my videos about lindsey Grahams townhall! Ron Paul on CNN http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dauk46aAIgA Ron Paul on the situation room CNN Part 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNRMcuwxpMk Ron Paul on the Ed Show MSNBC http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njDSf8Hetgg My videos:: Julliet Kozak gets standing O for slamming Graham, Graham slams Ron Paul http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nH2_nb4INSU Lindsey Graham slams Ron Paul again and says Ron Paul Hijacked the Republican Party! 12OCT09 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAEW2BjKfgU Julliet Kozak, a Ron Paul and Chuck Baldwin supporter, protests Lindsey Graham's town hall Greenville 12OCT09 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mepx8YC3C0 Lindsey Graham compromising...again Greenville 12 OCT09 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y36TeYt3WDs Question to Graham - Why do you think its necessary to get in bed with John Kerry? GVL 12OCT09 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YP7nCyqMTsE Harry Kimball trying to get rid of RINO's in Greenville at the Lindsey Graham town hall 12OCT09 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIB9MkHnPaM Lindsey Graham talks about Healthcare Inflation 12OCT09 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-34rqWsaP5U Jim Stack telling Lindsey Graham that him and Obama are Traitors Greenville 12OCT09 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nY3o7nG53W4 Brian Frank ALSO Today he vote FOR the Hate Crime Bill http://bit.ly/157TP2 Yesterday he told us he wouldn’t, page 2 http://www.greenvilleonline.co.../1001/NEWS "Graham told a friendly questioner that he is “dead-set” against hate crimes legislation that he said would elevate crimes based on sexual orientation to special federal prosecution, which he said is a precursor to recognizing same-sex marriage. Without a coalition, however, he said the measure will pass because there aren’t enough Republicans to stop it." Can you say HYPOCRITE? Brian Frank 864-425-1161 |
Matt Boone, CPA
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God bless Ron Paul Dr. Paul is such a great man. The future of the party is squarly in the Constitutional Conservative movement; Neo-conservatism is dead. |
Leo Liberty
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... South Carolinians, Please WAKE UP and get involve! You have a very corrupted and disgraced man (who talked like; he owned the party) representing your state. TAKE BACK what belongs to you NOW!!! By voting this soulless OUT of office and promote a candidate with moral with high regards for the constitution, The United States Constitution! Your friend in Liberty... |
Rick
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Get Rid of Graham-nesty Doctor Ron Paul represents the interests of all Americans who cherish freedom. Graham is a disgrace: a headline-grabbing, media-butt-kissing poseur, a warmonger, a big-government internationalist, and a traitor to conservatism. Anyone who does business with liberal fascists needs to be removed. |
jimmy
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... The constitution is still the law of the land,last time i check..even if some people want to destroy it and rewrite it with UN as we the people. Never forget! |
Thomas Paine
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Ron Paul is the way Get Lindsay Graham and any other Fascist Neocon out of the Republican party so it can truly be the conservative party adhering to the constitution. The Military Industrial Establishment has done enough damage to our country just as the welfare state has. President Eisenhower tried to warn us of the growing power and influence of the Military Industrial Establishment. They have become a cancer like Obama'a socialists. Go Ron Paul! |
John J OConnor Jr
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Wake Up Senator's Graham and McCain and their ilk have hijacked the Republican party. Rep Ron Paul is just attempting to get it back into the hands of true followers of our Constitutional Republic. During the last election cycle McCain after he realized the popularity of his running mate Sarah Palin it became apparent he backed off the campaign. I just hope that all my fellow Americans that believe in the republic will rally behind Rep. Paul and other candidates who have the same faith in this system. |
Libertyishappiness
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Ron will win in 2012 We still have 3 more years, and I think the revolution is spreading like wildfire! |
