Tuesday, January 7, 2020
QOTD -- The Lindsey Fish
"Shortly after Graham’s office requested documents pertaining to the Biden investigation, a 2016 video surfaced in which Graham paid heartfelt tribute to the former vice president, calling him “as good a man as God ever created” and saying, “If you can’t admire Joe Biden as a person . . . you need to do some self-evaluation.” It felt like a taped confession to a future crime, as if the old Graham, the Graham who knew better, had put his soul in a time capsule in order to shame his craven Trump-era self. Here was video evidence of Graham’s willingness to protect a man he knows to be corrupt by falsely accusing a friend of corruption. By that point, though, Graham’s debasement had been so thoroughly realized, the hypocrisy on display barely made an impact. [snip]
“'People try to analyze Lindsey through the prism of the manifest inconsistencies that exist between things that he used to believe and what he’s doing now,” [former Republican consultant Steve] Schmidt says. “The way to understand him is to look at what’s consistent. And essentially what he is in American politics is what, in the aquatic world, would be a pilot fish: a smaller fish that hovers about a larger predator, like a shark, living off of its detritus. That’s Lindsey. And when he swam around the McCain shark, broadly viewed as a virtuous and good shark, Lindsey took on the patina of virtue. But wherever the apex shark is, you find the Lindsey fish hovering about, and Trump’s the newest shark in the sea. Lindsey has a real draw to power — but he’s found it unattainable on his own merits.'” -- Mark Binelli, in his Rolling Stone profile of Sen. Lindsey "Huckleberry" Graham, "How Lindsey Graham Lost His Way."
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That article and the artwork that went with it were spot on. Lindsey could never achieve the degree of recognition and acclaim that he desperately wanted and believed that he deserved, so he latched onto those who could. The complete flip flop he did to support Trump was shocking, until you realize that Lindsey believed he wouldn't be able to get up the ladder without someone else's help.
The fact that he sold out his friendship with McCain and soiled his standing in the party is obvious and sickening. Who will Lindsey coattail when Trump is gone? Or will his constituents lose the power to keep him?
He's disgusting and despicable.
donnah -- he's a reflected power ho who you can count on to get his mug in front of a camera faster than you can say "Chuck Schumer." The article painted him as the unprincipled weasel he is. This is history's first draft.
Lindsey Graham never found his way. He has always been the lying, sycophantic tool he is today, and he has spent his career in a panic at the thought that his fellow Republicans will let his constituents know what all of the rest of us have seen for years, that he is gay, thus ending his career as a Republican, if he does not toady to the most loathsome Republican in existence at the time.
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