(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."
Graham emphasized his conservative bona fides - particularly his record of opposing abortion rights and support of gun rights - but said GOP needs to build a broader coalition. Otherwise, he warned, those trying to purify the party will turn Congress over "to the most liberal people in the world because somebody disagrees with you."
"I'm going to find people in Maine, Delaware, Illinois and other places that can win," he said. "And I'm going to help them, and we're going to move this party and this country forward. If you don't like it, you can leave."
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I respect people like Graham because at least he has the cajones to call out his party when it's wrong, but still stands true to his conservative values.
Lindsay Graham is starting to sound like a stand up guy....I guess. But Sen. Graham, the GOP has always been a party of angry white guys and will continue to be so unless the leadership of your party speaks out against Boss Limbaugh, Glen Beck and the rest of the right wing lunatics.
"We're not going to be the party of angry white guys."
TOO LATE.
He sure will have to bow down and kiss Limbaugh't feet for making those statements.
hahaahahahahahhahahaha
Graham: GOP 'not going to be the party of angry white guys'
I think it's a little too late for that. Now the GOP is moving into adding "crazy" into that tag line.
Its good that someone one the GOP finally grew a pair.
It's far too late. The Republican party is already the party of angry white guys – it's been that way for a couple of decades now. At least that's the perception that I think most Americans, and definitely most of the world, have. If there are more Republicans like Graham who care more about equality and opportunity then discrimination and ignorance, then I'd like to hear their voice more. Unfortunately it's hard to hear these intelligent and moderate voices over all the angry Teabaggers and unconstitutional libertarians.
Good for you Graham.
The Republicans need to learn that while they enjoy a loyal base, they are polarized against the mainstream. The Democrats by contrast have much infighting and disagreement but a relatively coalesced base that fits into the mainstream.
The Republicans will continue to be marginalized and further sink into irrelevance unless they embrace precisely what Graham espouses.
Even though I disagree with you Graham, I applaud your openness; although your rebuke of Ron Paul tells me that even you still have a ways to go before you can welcome this former Republican back into the fold.
When Lindsey Graham isn't conservative enough, whew! Thank you to Sen. Graham for having a big of a backbone with his own crazies.
The issues is that the Repubs, like the Dems, should stand on their principals instead of chasing voters. That way the people elect the person most likely to represent them the way they want. Otherwise they elect someone trying to stay in office changing their stance every time a new poll comes out. This is why government is full of flip-flopping, self-serving professional politicians. We need our government filled with people of character and not a buch of popularity contestents.
Good for him. If the Grand Old Party has any future it's people like Graham and Snow that will save it. Brave are they.
Re-election time for Republicat's will be difficult. A conservative will take your place.
I find it quite humorous that his statement "We're not going to be the party of angry white guys" was met with angry boos and shouts from the audience.
What a bunch of dopes.
So much for using reason, Senator.
I lean toward the Democratic party. Having said that, there are a number of GOP senators and members of the House that have gained my respect. Sen. Lindsey Graham is one of those. He doesn't come across as one of those "always say 'no'" Republican sticks in the wheel. Graham listens carefully, gives his opinion respectfully, and moves forward with what emerges.
The question is how are you going to make the angry white guys that have hijacked the republican party happy?
They seem to enjoy enjoy living a life of hate and anger.
It does give me hope that at least someone from the right has seen the light and is, at least in words willing to have an open mind.
Unfortunately, Sen Graham, as long as your constiuents are angry white guys intent on spreading hate and fear policies, the Republican party is going the way of the dinosaur. You all do nothing to quell the absolute vile and sickening words coming out of people's mouths.
When is someone in the Republican party going to set a line of integrity and stick to it – besides Sen. Snowe?? We always need good criticism, and people to make sure the balance of power is set... but lately all the repubs are good for is a side show circus freak act.
We're not going to be the party of angry white guys."
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Too late! That mission has definitelly been accomplished. On the fringes of your Party, for a little added variety, you do have Totally Confused Morons from the state of Florida. Your tent is nothing but a teepee. The country at large looks at your Party and it's ever-changing leadership with disdain, embarrassment, and as inconsequential non-contributors in reagrds to the welfare of the country. RIP GOP.
Lindsey Graham is as conservative as can be. He has said there is global warming and we must have a cap and trade system to deal with carbon emissions. He agrees that gays should have equal rights. Just because he agrees with democrats on a couple of issues doesn't mean he's not conservative. Supporting Lindsey Graham is supporting climate change legislation and gay rights, that's all. That's the new conservative.
Graham is fostering in a new era of bi-partisanship, just as Obama promised. Thank you LIndsey!
Thank you, Senator Graham, for being one of the few voices of reason in your party, and I hope you are right about its future, for all our sakes. Democratic and Republican lawmakers alike: we elected you to govern, not to act like children.
At least I give give credit to Senator Graham for admitting that the G"NO"P is a party of angry white guys.
He is just not adding the other "core values" of the Republiklan party, that they are bigots, rascist, sexist and everything Un-American for advocating for the USA to fail!!!
Graham is grasping at straws. He is one of the angry white guys. Watch him on the Sunday news shows. Funny now that is core group is turning on him.
WOW, The Republican Party is mostly "angry white guys".
No Kidding!!!!!!
I think Sen Graham is a little late to prevent that from happening
"not going to be a party of angry white guys"? He's right. They're the party of angry stupid greedy white guys".
That's exactly what the American people have been saying all along. Anyone who thinks Bush was a great President, is a nut case.
Finally someone is recognizing that it is the Libertarian's who are trying to make the Republician Party their party. I don't always agree with Lindsey Graham but he is correct that the party needs to be more inclusive and come up with more middle of the road ideas in order to move forward. Maybe a leader, other than Rush, would work also.
You have sowed these seeds, friend. People respect the fact Ron Paul has principles and sticks to them. I disagree strongly with Ron Paul, but, I respect his opinion because he believes in something. Most Republicans, like Graham, are politicians who are only concerned with filling their coffers so they can be re-elected. Campaign finance reform is how real change will happen. It is not a partisan issue, but, an American one.
Maybe Graham needs to realize that a lot of people are upset with the "status quo" of government and want to go a different direction. He doesn't want the GOP to be "hijacked" by Ron Paul because he knows Paul will take the party back to the way it used to be - a party of small government, less spending, less taxes, more Constitutionality.
Maybe Ron Paul would be better off leaving the GOP and letting the party go down without him.
I like him..he at least is willing to work with every one for the good of us all..and Olympia Snow needs to do that trigger thing for health care also..screw the rest of them...
I thought it always has been.
News to me.
The protests are growing and the CALL FOR A REVOLUTION is growing all over the country.
Everyone I know all say the same thing, we are overdue for a Revolution so we can throw them all out and start over.
I am afraid the next March on Washington is going to look like the G20 violence except much much bigger.
It's the ultra-right wing that gives anyone with a more moderately conservative of view of things a bad rap. There are extremes on both sides of the coin and unforunately it is usually those who scream the loudest and get the most coverage. I'm one of those moderates that voted for Obama (and currently having a lot of questions about the way things are going for the country, btw) but I applaud Sen. Graham for standing his ground and having the rational foresight to see that Republicans or a larger conservative movement does not stand a chance if they are perceived as being represented by those that don't know how to make a comment, express their opinion and shut their mouths without intentionally trying to anger the other side. That's counter productive to say the least and will not move this country forward.
Graham has just hit upon the party slogan for 2012: Join the GOP, the party of angry white guys.
Too late. The far-right conservative fringe (aka American Taliban) has already taken over the party. You can blame Ron Paul, but you also have to blame Sarah Palin, Rush and Hannity and all the other hateful people in the public who spread lies and fear to further their own personal agendas. The republican party has been allowing them to run around doing whatever they wish hoping it would benefit the party. Well, now that they're beginning to see just how out of control it's gotten, they want to reclaim their party. It is just too late. No one can bring this misinformed angry mob back to reality. We can only hope they begin to feed on themselves.
Although Graham has done his share of mud slinging, fear mongering, lies, he evidently has realized what all the sewer
tactics have done to the republican party. Was happy to see him
have to face the radical right wing activists his party and big
business have created. Maybe, just maybe, some integrity and
honor can be brought back to the republican party and they start
doing what they are elected to do. Will be high mountain they will
have to climb as they damage they have done to our country will
not be easily forgotten or overcome.
He is the poster child of those who stole the GOP away from the American citizens. It is people like Sen. Graham who want the GOP to be just like the DNC, and we are sick of the big brother government, new world order, the style of Government that our founding father's had no intention of ever allowing in our Free nation!
Senator please read the bill of rights and the U.S Constitution again and show me where it states that this nation should have a Private central bank controlling our economy?
And for those who are lurking read Dr. Paul's new book titled "End the Fed".
At last, one with a brain!
God bless you sen. Graham
Bout time someone stood up to the townhallers, and yea it had to be a repub.
dems have no guts
the bachas bill is garbage
what are you taxing my bennies for if theres no public option???
Your right Sen. Graham your not "going to be", you already ARE!!!
"....turn Congress over "to the most liberal people in the world because somebody disagrees with you."
Didn't we just do that? How's that working out for us? 9.8% unemployment, was it?
McCain lost because he thought like Graham. Nuff said.
Now this republican speaks like a man with common sense, but you see what his party does for him.. They get angry and ask him to leave the party. We would welcome you Mr. Graham because we are open to new ideas and we don't tell people how to think. It is 2009, but we need to get some petticoats and wigs for rush, hannity, cheney and the rest of the looney toons who feels as thought they have all the answers. I never understood how they are so self righteous when it comes to abortion, but can look a man in the eye and flip the switch without a second thought and more times than not without irrefutable evidence. Can't figure that out. Maybe we should ask the republican governor of texas.
I hate it when people accuse at me. That said, good for him for standing up to those knuckleheads. The republican party will come back stronger if they can just ditch the neocon fanatics, religious wackos and Randroids and return to their old principles. It was Reagan who laid the groundwork for the far right's highjacking of the GOP. Have a nice day!
Good luck, Senator Graham, with attracting moderates. You won't find them at town hall meetings, though. Those are being overrun by non-moderates.
While it may be a little too late to change it from being the party of Angry White guys, I have to commend Senator Graham for stepping up the idiot extreme branch of his party. What people don't understand is that just because the news focuses on the idiots of both parties, most of us are more in line with people like Senator Graham, Senator McCain, Joe Lieberman, and other moderates in the congress. I am a democrat but I'd never be so dumb to believe that my party has all the answers. George Washington never wanted political parties to exist because he knew there would be people like the tea party morons and Fox news viewers who can't think for themselves. Well done Senator Graham, you earned a new fan today.
Good luck, Senator Graham. Regrettably, I think you're doomed to fail, for your audience is the reason this moderate white guy wishes nothing further to do with the GOP. One can only hope that this current incarnation of the GOP can – and soon will – join the ranks of other extinct elephant types, such as the mammoth.
T. Edwards
Logan, UT
I predict the GOP will split. There are those, like Graham, who are realizing too late that this dangerous game of embracing religious fervor and hate is backfiring and will desperately try to reconstitute their party. The only problem is their ideas are tried-and-failed, so they have nowhere to go.
The rest of the GOP will form a party of people who want authoritarian idiot leaders like Limbaugh, Palin and Beck, where they have to pass a "religious" litmus test, believe in the almighty buck over everything and have no qualms lying, cheating, quitting and in general being a hypocrite.
In the meantime, the reasonable majority will continue with a progressive agenda, and will succeed in digging our country out of the hole created by the Republicans.
Graham says they're "not going to be the party of angry white guys".
(Channeling Bette Davis as Baby Jane): But ya are Blanche!
you kidding me? you were in front of the line Mr. Graham! what are you talking about? don't think we haven't forgotten all the noise you helped create over the past 9 months with your other "morale" senators from SC! NOT! you need to be voted out of office too!
If the Republicans ever stop bashing gays and immigrants, they will take-over since they will be inline with economics, foreign policy, taxes, spending and following the law with a small government.
The originator of the Democratic Party, Thomas Jefferson, would be shocked to see his party today. They have their grubby little hands everywhere – like socialists.
DUH!!!!! The boy is on his way OUT!!!!!!
Too late, Lindsey. You've been the party of angry white guys for quite some time, and I think its really disappointing. We need a vibrant two party system in this country, but the current GOP as it stands doesn't pass muster.
Finally! – one common sense voice in the republican party. thank-you Lindsey Graham.
I'm a Democrat, but I've got to give it to Lindsey, though. He is standing up for his principles and at least he's trying.
Bad Republican: How dare he help to stop climate change or vote for a non-white old guy for Supreme court- disgraceful!!!!. What is America coming to, next thing you know, we will no longer be at war with anyone and the middle class will be strong and wages will go up, then rich people will have a hard time finding good maids and gardeners and what will the war industry to with all those bombs.
No!! Must get back to agenda of throwing women that want abortions in jail. Must get back to agenda of feeding the already fat capitalist pigs that sit in their soft chairs and reap the majority of the rewards for productivity by hard working Americans.
The GOP ARE "the party of angry white guys" with a token ineffectual and useless black guy as their face. Deny it all you want, but all it means is that you are in denial.
Naw, there are some angry white women in it too. We all saw them in the tea bagger and town hall pictures snarling like jackals about whatever the latest malicious right wing agitprop happened to be.
Compared to what's up there in Washington now.....Ron Paul would be a breath of fresh air.
Sorry, Linseed, but you ain't gonna find ANY rational republicans ANYWHERE.
Too Late! It already is....
Sen. Lindsey Graham is by any rational measure a Southern conservative in his political philosophy. Of course, that's the problem within what passes for today's Republican party-that "rational" part. Graham and the ever shrinking potentially responsible portion of the Repubs abdicated their leadership role and are now paying the price with the "earth is 8,000 years old", "students should be allowed to take Glocks to school" base that has taken over with the grace of a shark feeding frenzy. And being "accused" of working with fellow, albeit Democratic party, Americans to actually accomplish something! Graham and company must be experiencing that same sinking feeling in the pit of their stomach felt by Dr. Frankenstein.
These tea party folks are becoming like Taliban. They are ganging up against Republicans who do not support their extreme views. It serves right to GOP because they created these hate mongers for political gain.
This is similar to what has happened in Pakistan. They created Taliban and now Taliban is trying to take over Pakistan.
The GOP is ALREADY the party of angry white guys and Graham is one of them.
Liz Cheney is not a credible person to critize President Obama's domestic and foreign policies. Her father failed the country by influencing Bush to attack Iraq. The The news media should not give her so much exposure because she speaks for her father Dick Cheney and he is a recognizable national and international failure.
most of you already forget the 8 long years of misery of the Bush,Cheney ,Rumsfeld ,and co...80% of Americans people have seen the country being hijacked by the Republicans.Enough was enough.It's time now to let decent people help us forget the nigtmares of the last 8 years.
Yahoo! Way to go Senator! As an SC resident and a Democrat, I am so proud of his stance. You can disagree with the opposition, but be smart enough to know that if you are bull-headed and refuse to work with people, the country loses, let alone your party. I think his actions are a step in the right direction that all Senators, both Democrat and Republican, can take a look at.
oops too late!
The more I hear from Lindsey Graham the more I like. I consider myself an Independent but have been mostly voting Democratic due to the extreme positions the Republicans have been taking. If more the moderate Republican voices and candidates can win out over the extremists I would probably start voting Republican more often again.
Thanks to McCain/Lindsay/Limbaugh the GOP is already the party of old angry white men who support big government. This will continue until the GOP decides to open itself to small-government conservatives who support Ron Paul. Lindsay does not own the GOP. Ron Paul supporters include the young, women and minorities who should not be shut out of the GOP. There is nothing wrong with supporting the principles of limited government prescribed in the Constitution. Lindsay has hijacked the Party of Reagan and delivered it to the Big-Government Neocons.
Ron Paul is a joke as well as the GOP. Good luck to any of them, the party of puberty.
You are already the party of angry white guys get over it and for God sake do what's right. Remember for every lie to tell another one will follow.
Boy I am telling you. The Republican Party is full of wingnuts.
Graham: GOP 'not going to be the party of angry white guys'
You're a little late bud.
Denial ain't just a river that flows through Egypt.
Maybe he should join the Democrats because apparently any Republican who shows any support for the slightest Democratic proposal/appointment is considered a traitor.
I am glad that Sen. Graham has stood up and denounced the likes of Beck and all the birthers.
I still think that he is still too conservative for my taste, but I do admire the fact that he is willing to talk about and have debate on actual POLICY rather than just spew vitriolic hate like most of the rest of his party.
Tea Baggers are subversives bent on eroding the Unites States from with in.
United We Stand... UNITED!!! Let's get United about something.
Health Care would be a good place to start.
We are all humans and all deserve the RIGHT to health care. Really only those who want to control a population would want a sick and desperate population.
Sad to say but the people in Detroit and Chicago who have voted Democrat for the last 40 years are getting what they deserve. Thanks to Democrats they are afraid to leave their homes. They have been denied their American dream since keeping them poor, hopeless, and dependant on the government assures them of being Democrat voters. Their life expectancy and quality of life is a direct reflection of their loyal Democrat voting.
If they want to give their children a better life, a safe life, then they need to embrace the Republicans. You can't expect the republicans to keep trying to help when that help is always met with a personal attack that lack any validity.
Good Luck, he'll need it.....bwahahahahahaha!
come on...I mean the guys name is Lindsey...he can't be a "real" republican with a name like that.
When is Rush going to kick him out of the party?
Vote them all out of Congress. Every single one of them: Democrat, Republican, Independent. If they are an incumbent that has helped get us into this situation, they need to be removed. Time for fresh blood, fresh ideas, and to save this great country.
I am not a Republican, but I applaud Senator Graham for standing up against the people who are demolishing the party he really does care about. How can they not see that?
"I'm going to find people in Maine, Delaware, Illinois and other places that can win," he said. "And I'm going to help them, and we're going to move this party and this country forward. If you don't like it, you can leave."
Not if we don't vote for you again! Its game over for you, and you neo-con ilk.
This guy doesn't get it. He is not in charge.
I haven't always agreed with Sen. Graham but I've always respected him. He is a conservative but he is also thoughtful and willing to explore areas of compromise. That is what politics is; compromise. We can't, liberal or conservative, get everything we want. That is self-delusional. But we can look for areas that we do agree on. There is nothing wrong with opposition but there also needs to be an understanding that if two sides just oppose each other there is stasis and nothing gets done. Politics is an organic process and it needs to constantly be in motion. In the end, liberals and conservatives must move toward the center, even as they still push for their agendas. This is healthy politics.
Lindsey Graham is the poster child of politicians needing to be impeached or voted out as soon as possible. He is completely out of touch with those who elected him and rather wants to take on a national effort to save the republican party. Worst of all, he is an enemy of the Constitution-loving, God-fearing people who want the party restored to it's conservative roots.
Please do not villify Lindsey Graham. He is a representative servant of the highest order. No one can agree on everything. If we get the 'sanctifiy of human rights' issue to be front and center, then we will have God on our side. If God is for us, who can be against us?
Republicans are perceived as rich and selfish, Democrats are perceived as being for the common man. Neither is neither, both are both. Moderates should pull together to force the formation of the
LIBERAL PARTY. We can only dream of Democratic moderates, becoming Republicans. If only.
To late there Spanky.
The GOP and most all of the rethuglicans in congress has been taken over by rotting brain evangelicals whose stated purpose is to run Obama out of office in discrace, send "god hating-gay lovin'" democrats packing and to "bring back their America" of white "christian" folks being in charge of everything.
Time to let that ship sail and get on with forming a "real American", rational conservative movement. One that accepts the challenges of the changing demographics of the US and our new position as a leading player – not THE leader – in the world of international politics...
The GOP "IS" a party of angry white guys. Can't white-wash it, it shows every day.
Graham: GOP 'not going to be the party of angry white guys' [sic]
You're Too Late
The GOP sure ain't the party Mom and Pop once supported. Sad.
This is not a problem of liberal vs conservative alignment within the GOP. This is a generational shift. The old ways of partisanship will end. The GOP is in danger of becoming a largely a regional party. Conservatism is at war with itself; social, fiscal, and national security hawks have been divided over policy for years. The warning signs were way back in 1992. Reagan Republicanism is dead now. The new GOP will be more progressive on some issues, fiscally moderate, culturally inclusive, and more conservative on foreign policy – less imperialist. By 2016, they should have their ducks in a row.
Wow, Graham!! wake up then. The party is not going to be hijacked by Paul, although it would be better off. Paul would do better to start a third party and ditch this two-party scam that's already been hijacked by corporations and banks.
"We're not going to be the party of angry white guys."
Too late.
they alredy are
Too Late
It's Senator Lindsey Graham R-South Carolina "Captain Sluuur!" I'm Sorry To Disappoint You Senator Graham, But Your Party Already Have Angry White Men In It. Led No Less By A Cohort Right From Your State. Congressman R-South Carolina Joe "Mouth Of The South Carolina!" Wilson. Then There's Chuck "Snake In The" Grassley, Rush Limburger, "Mr. Insanity!" Sean Hannity, And Glenn "The Buzzard!" Beck Just To Name A Few.
The GOP have shown themselves....
That is exactly what the GOP has become, even Sen. Graham recognizes it.
I think that will only leave Liz Cheney and Sarah "quitter" Palin
So split the party. Let Sarah Palin, Ron Paul, and Rush go off with the evangelists and libertarians to form their own right wing party, while McCain, Snowe, and Graham form a new Republican party. They'll probably gain more voters from the independent and swing crowd, at the same time chipping away from the moderate Democrat base, than they lose to the wing.
Maybe then they'd have a party that would make Mr. Lincoln proud.
Growing the Republican Party is like growing Poison Ivy.
Wow. I respect him, actually. He stands for many things I oppose, but that kind of approach is all right.
Lindsey Graham lets ditch the right and the left and form a party which will deal with whats right and whats wrong!! aparty which will free Americans from the corporate greed!!
I agree, how about "Idiot and Angry"
Oh Lindsay, the rest of us have been trying to tell you who you've been dealing with all the long. They are nuts and by the way some things never change!
Republicans all goose-step together....well, except for Senator Snowe.
Ron Paul named his kid Rand. Normal people do not name their kid Rand.
Booed after that comment, better role out the token black republicans to cover your tracks. The amount of unfounded hate emanating from the republican party. I used to like the republican party too; at least until it started getting taken over by the religious racist ultra conservative nut jobs. I hope that the conservatives get their way and purge their party of anyone that isn't at the far right fringe. Fox News can keep its huge market share of people too stupid to use the internet and the party will trim its numbers down so far that it will fade into obscurity.
"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."
Of course they're angry! Why wouldn't they be? This is a man who is TRYING to work with others! The GOP can't be seen as being able to work with anyone. They HAVE to be seen as being the Party of No.
Imagine this - if they actually do what they're supposed to do and work with other elected officials to try to make America a better place, then the GOP would have to give up the name Grand Obstructionist Party and be :: gasp:: actually doing their job! Can you honestly see anyone in the GOP doing what they're supposed to do?
Graham needs to wake up and smell the coffee. He's talking about building a broader colaition, reaching out to new constituencies, and defending his positions in opposing his own party....and he's doing this to a chorus of boos from the very people that elected him.
The people want to be represented, not told what positions they should support by self-righteous politicians that long-ago stopped living in the real working world.
Graham and others like him should take notice. Represent the will of the people, or you'll be replaced by someone that will.
could've fooled me
Lets hope that's the truth. Lord knows time is not on your side with the new census.
Ahem, they ARE a bunch of angry white guys. Just look at em.
It's already too late. The GOP will continue to be known as the party of angry white people who spread BIGOTRY, IGNORANCE, and RACISM. There isn't anything that any Republican senator can do to stop this, especially because they can't control the Rush Limbaugh and the people who adore him on the far right. The hole they have dug themselves into is just too deep to get out of.
just because you say you are not angry white guys means its true. the rush limbaugh party is a bunch of angry white guys
Umm, he's a little late with "angry white guys" rhetoric, that's pretty much what the republican party is. Party of hate!
Let's see, how many glaring sins does the RNC have, hmm?
1. The 2000 Presidential Election- STOLEN.
Too late Lindsey. The GOP is the party of angry white guys and "tea baggers" and "birthers" and Rush and Glenn and Cheney and Coulter. Oh, and let's not forget the "grassroots" anti health care reformers.
Bravo, Senator Graham, Bravo!
Angry White guys: Grow up, and join the 21st century!
Too late...you already are the party of rich angry white guys...look at your ertswhile leaders, Rush, Palin, Beck...getting rich by pretending to be angry at Obama....laughing all the way to the offshore banks. Wonder how many taxes they pay?
what's to love about the republican party? they have nothing. Graham is a beast of the past.
Graham, if you seriously want to grow the Republican Party, maybe you should reconsider your stance on gun rights. I appreciate what you are saying, and actually agree with a lot of it...more centrist Republicans NEED to take their party back from the extremists and wingnuts that have taken control of it, but you ought to perhaps check with your constituents on what they really want.
Sorry, Lindsey already has happened. Should have thought about that months ago, too late now. Most American people know where the republican party stands.
Lindsey Graham is right! As a moderate I am so sick of these rude yelling wingnuts that claim to be the voice of America!!! They are NOT!They will only continue to destroy the Republican party with their extremist ideas! Everyone will run the other way if they take over the party!!!
Graham says the Republicans "aren't going to be a party of angry white guys", how about also adding to the list uneducated and unintelligent people like Palin and the rest of her clan.
The GOP is not all angry white men. Some of them are just morons.
Angry white guy says GOP "not going to be the party of the angry white guys".... does this mean that Graham will be quitting the Republicans?
Cat, meet kettle.
Nope, but that's how MSNB portrays Republicans. Reality is Republicans are the party of the WORKING class people and Democrats are the Tax and Spend Liberals who are there to take from those who work and give it to those who don't.
This country is ready for a viable third party and throw out all these corrupt self serving Democrats and Republicans. We need a party in the center that serves the interest of the people and not themselves.
I must admit, he is showing some true statesmanship!
I don't agree with most of Sen. Graham's political leanings. However, I must admit I admire his strength of character to stand up to extremists with his party. I also admire his loyalty to his friends.
You tell them idiots, Graham... I love it when those fools spit venom at each other in a public forum. Let 'em eat Mississippi Mud Pie and turnip greens if they wanna bail from the rotten republicans... lol
They want to throw him out because he's an oddity among Republicans – someone who actually uses his head once in awhile and will consider evidence and arguments even if they don't fall smack in the middle of the Limbaugh Brainless Party (LBP they shold be re-named) and their rigid dogma. Hey, a Repub that I can actually respect a bit, even if I disagree with him on most issues. Too bad the sheep that have hijacked his party do not have the intelligence to look at issues and arguments instead of donning the white hoods every time they are ordered to do so.
".....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."
Good luck with that...
Go get em Barrack and Michelle!
Good ole Lindsey Graham, he never met a camera he didn't love
"I'm going to grow it. We're not going to be the party of angry white guys."
Oops... too late Senator.
Stop talking sense Senator. The remains of the Republican base don't talk that anymore. They've convinced themselves that the only way to regain power is to cast out the non-believers and make the Party smaller.
Finally, a reasoned voice in the Republican party. You go, Senator Graham.
Until the Republican Party starts putting forth ideas and stops with the "NO NO NO" mentality, they will be villianized as they are now.
Hey Lindsey Graham – you can try reaching out to other voters, but you won't succeed until your fellow party members vut out the rhetoric. So, in the meantime:
Don't go away mad, just go away...
I would love for the Republican party to come back to its roots. Let me tell you, I am very sceptical at this point and will not vote for another one until they are NOT the Party of angry white guys, because they sure are right now. They refuse to help solve any of the problems that they helped create, acting all indigant and self-righteous, as if they had nothing to do with it.
Finally, a Republican with the gonads to stand up to the wackos...we'll watch this unfold with great interest.
Ummm....TOO LATE. What a clown.
"We're not going to be the party of angry white guys." Graham was then attacked by a mob of angry white guys who screamed "Abortion is Murder" while waving their pistols in the air. Republicans did it to themselves.
Fear, Hatred, Distortion and Division is all they have to offer.
Graham, you are too late with too little.
The angry white redneck guys already rule the new republiklan party, the old republican party that you describe is already dead.
You should have stood up to them prior to now, now they will just shout you down like they do to Democrats in all forums. They are not interested in debate, only in "taking our country back" from the black President!
I like these kind of common sense conservatives better than the far right wingnuts that are just down right scary.
Kudos to Sen. Graham......I said it in January 2009......this guys going to run for President.......Hopefully he'll wait until 2016,though....Obama/Biden 2012.....The DEMS already have the idea of a strong/broad coalition.....
You've got it backwards. The conservatives aren't going to let the party be further hijacked by RINO's like you. It has absolutely nothing to do with being old or being white....absolutely nothing. It's about holding true to the founding of this country. It's about defending what makes us different from Europe and why we fought for our independence.
The democrats are hell bent on growing the govt with govt healthcare, cap n trade, and obama's czars running the autos and the banks.
It was predicted that they'd overstep much like they did with Carter and Clinton and boy they haven't disappointed in the least.
"not going to be the party of angry white guys"...Too late.
"Angry White Men"? Would that be an approvement over the 'whiney white men" they've been for some time now??? Give me a break. There's nothing manely about the Republicans/Conservative. They have Rushamindjah, WeepyGlenn, and WhimpyHannity leading the way, what did they expect?
This is one Republican that has common sense, lets make Him a Democrat.
Interesting....he should take cues from Ron Paul and ask him to clue him in on America and what we are facing out here across this country.
So far the GOP has the angry face of Rush Limbaugh, Colter, Cantor, Boehner, McConnel.....all angry whites guys to me!
Sen. Graham......
Amen..... God bless you for having the balls to say it to their face....
They already are, aren't they? Seems most of the anger is coming from the GOP national office and certain members of Congress. Look at the "anger" brought out by Palin during the campaign. Didn't hear much from McCain stopping it, did you.
Never know exactly what to think of his remarks. But that begs the broader
GOP is not going to include the likes of Graham or Snowe. U guys are Dems in Republ clothing. You do not hold conservative values. To say that the GOP party is a bunch of "white people"; are you kidding me. You don't have to be white to be a republ; you just have to be conservative. The Graham’s, Snowes, and McCains, etc. have tried to take over our party. We are taking it back. Liberal "republs" look-out.. You vote with the Dems to ruin this country with this healthcare stuff and the bottomless spending using "we the peoples" hard earned money, then you will fall with the Dems. We the conservatives (black, white, pink, polka dotted, all colors) have had it. Does Graham and Snowe realize how idiotic they appear? Conservative Republs where are you; I don’t hear you; I don’t see you. Why are U guys not blasting your party members for jumping over to the other side? HELLO!!!!!!!
The republican party should remain open to many people and should run in 2010 on "All Americans First!"
A day late and a dollar short!
Lindsey has his work cut out for him because today the Repub party is a party of angry old white men with some religious bigots and evangelical right-wing wingnuts thrown in for good measure. When you through in a few Repub reactionaries like Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck, Newt Gingrich,Karl Rove, and Michael Steel, it is difficult to understand how Graham can possibly save the Repubs from total self-destruction.
Good luck, Lindsey!
The GOP already IS the party of angry white guys.
On the other hand, if it becomes the party that turns its back on those "angry white guys," it will continue its downhill slide into irrelevence and obscurity. Grahamnesty, do the republican party a favor and LEAVE IT!!.......and take McCain and Snow with you.
(I'm proud to say I AM one of those angry white guys......angry from watching my country and my culture being weakened and systematically destroyed by a bunch of greedy, power-hungry elitists and an electorate that is too PROGRAMED by the media and our so-called public education system to realize how they are being manipulated and used.)
Wonder if he'd cleared that message with Rush?
I'm confused. Why are libertarians and tea party activists against Sonia Sotomayer? And I didn't know they were against working on climate change issues, also.
Senator Graham is a very caring human being and his response to those "NO NO NO" people in his party is right on. He is truly an american who cares about the plight of less fortunate people and not just his self-interests. To the Senator, I say, congratulations for standing for your principles for the good of the american people.
he is right. the party should listen to republicans like grahm and powell.
democracies are not about "purity."
Sorry Charlie. It already is! Except for a few token minorities, what else do you see? The ugliness and racist remarks from the Repubs are not only being watched by the black people, but all people of color. Remember that!
Good luck with that Sen Graham your party is not only old white hair guys your party is the party of NO, Cant do, were not moving forward your party is slowly coming to its death!
Good job, Sen. Graham...everybody's always complaining about the lack of bipartisanship, but as soon as someone actually crosses the line to do something good for the country (even if the "other side" suggested it), they're immediately booed and accused of joining the other party. Talk about a double standard...
I never cared for Mr. Graham but I respect him for standing up to the baggers instead of doing as his compadres have done; which is to bow to them and take gleeful delight in their attacks on the President.
I see now that these traitors are turning on the GOP, there seems to be some newly found revulsion in the baggers' revolution.
As far as I'm concerned, the republican party has always been a party of "angry white guys" the difference is that there are far fewer of them in this (thankfully) increasingly diverse nation.
I applaud your efforts Mr. Graham.
Republicans need to get united. The majority of Americans no longer support the democrats since they have seen what the far-left is willing to do to this nation.
Get united and take back Congress in 2010 and retire Obama in 2012.
Wow, is he for real? Just so you know, Sen. Graham, John McCain is NOT conservative, nor is "opposing abortion rights". Being in the GOP is not proof of conservatism, it's just a political party. On a side note, in one breath you say you want to "grow" the party and then tell a large group "If you don't like it, you can leave." Do I really have to tell you why that might be what kills the GOP?
They are already on their way back only after 9 months of Obama.
the party of NO..... what a pack of whiny losers
I'm a Democrat, but I've always liked Lindsey Graham, he's a really good guy. Therefore, I'm not surprised that he's taking a bit of heat from the lunatic fringe that's running the tea party movement. He is definitely conservative on policy, but he's smart enough not to be antagonistic to those who disagree with him, so obviously that's a problem for the crazies that were heckling him.
Too Late. FYI....Joe Wilson, Angry old WHite guy.....
Youre right...
Its going to evolve into the party of
ANGRY WHITE GUYS, ANNNND ANGRY WHITE WOMEN,
spewing their lies,hate, and divisiveness until (they hope) our President (and country) fails, and they can claim Political victory in an attempt to reclaim power.
So in a sense, he is being honest. And he already knows his attempts at TRYING to be Bi-Partisan drew TeaPArty activists and Libertarians Boos. Just goes to show people are gonna find anything to be angry about.
Never know exactly what to think of his remarks. But that begs the broader question - if he cannot abide the far right wing and their bigoted philosophies, why doesn't he switch parties as some of his hecklers suggested.
It is becoming increasingly clear that America is made up of primarily two groups: (1) Those who tolerate and accept legitimate and sincere differences among groups and individuals, yet share enough common ground to pull together as a united people with the same basic hopes and aspirations, and (2) those who look for, emphasize and exploit differences among groups and individuals so as to ostracize and separate. Fortunately, the first group is probably eighty (80) percent of the population; the remainder calls themselves Republicans.
The Republican Party needs more Lindsey Grahams. His editorial with John Kerry in the NY Times shows how constructive members of the Senate can work together. Senators are elected to make things happen, not prevent progress.
Thank you Senator Graham for playing a leadership role.
Too late for that
If he really means it, I could start to respect him alittle. I always thought he was McCain's lackey.
Too bad Graham, it already has!
Ummmmmmmmmmmm too late Lindsey – way too late.
Say what?
Has Graham heard the rantsand ravings of the lunatic right? Why did Van Jones resign? In the past what was the Republican stand on civil rights, voting rights, and fair housing? Hasn't the Republican party consistenty tried to prevent African-Americans from voting? Look at the last election?
Actions seak louder than words, regardless of what Graham says, the Repulican act like bunch of "old, angry white guys." If the shoe fits, wear it.
"We're not going to be the party of angry white guys." So you will be a party of none then?
Sorry Lindsey – too late.
Amen to Lindsey Graham Amen! Do not let your party be hijacked by the likes of Rush and Co!
As long as Rush Limbaugh is at the helm it will be!~
Hey Linsey if you want to really do something start with this:
GOP or DEM, political corruption and the lack of trust it creates is what hurts our country as much as anything. I'm not very politically savy, but you don't have to be to know that America could really cut down on political corruption with 2 changes. Term limits and campaign finance reform.
1. Limit every politician to a 6 or 8 year term.
2. No corporation, group or individual may give over 100.00 to any campaign.
Concerning political tv shows: Because so much of the media is politically biased they should be forced to read a disclaimer before each politcally based show, right after each commercial and at the end of every show, saying that everything that is being shown is just an opinion. Most of us know this already but there are some young voters out there that don't..or is this what you rascals are counting on?
South Carolina is like a cauldron of boiling oil. Any droplet from that is likely to cause severe burns. But, if the source of boiling is removed, it can become manageable, and it will retain its greasy nature.
Good for you Senator Graham. I am not a fan but it is nice to see a real Republican stand up to the nut ball wing of the party.
Sorry Senator but it already is.
You seem to be a reasonably decent guy. Maybe it's time to cut your losses.
Let's see, How many glaring sins does the RNC have, hmmm?
1. The 2000 Presidential Election- STOLEN.
2. 9/11- MISMANAGED AND HANDLED WITH SHEER INCOMPETINCE.
3. The war in Iraq- FABRICATED ON LIES, GREED AND REVENGE.
4. Hurricane Katrina- NEED I SAY MORE?
5. The economy- AGAIN, NEED I SAY MORE?
6. The attacks made on the 2008 Presidential Campaign AND the tatics being used in EVERY POSSIBLE WAY against the Obama Administration.
That is all the Republican Party amounts to.
Oh those Greedy Republicans, think they should keep their money and not share it with the rest of us.
Apparently theRepublican partys own people don't realize that they are becoming not just "The party of No" but irrelevant. They have brought themselves close to oblivion and it is going to take a lot of work to bring them back to where they will have a strong showing in future elections. People are like elephants, they don't forget.
Are the republicans growing their brains and hearts back???? I really would like to see another sensible, thoughtful and inclusive second political party. The GOP has lost it all and has become a party of fear, hate and NO. They will be extinct unless they change themselves.
Wow, can you say that again Mr. Graham ! Is that a tiny bit of light in the very very dark GOP?
The Republicans don’t seem to get it yet. They can’t win a national election buy catering to the 20% of the -extreme end- of the right wing..
Go join the LIberals!
We're "not going to be" the party of angry white guys.
You got the tense wrong Lindsey. It is, was and for whatever amount of time is left for it, the party of fear, hate and angry white guys.
Tell em' Graham. " If you don't like it, you can leave." I love it!
Ah...hey Lindsay...it already is the party of angry white guys.....take a look around dude....
"We're not going to be the party of angry white guys."
Too late for that kind of talk. It's done.
And who does Lindsey Graham think put him in office in the first place?
well surprise.. But you forgot Old angry white guys
Until the Rethuglicans rid themselves of the fanatic evangelical wingnuts created by devotees of James Dobson we'll never be a viable political party again.
Moderates have fled the Republican Party by the millions, and it's time we completely divorce ourselves from the intolerant Rethuglican vermin that remain.
It's time for the moderates to combine, both Republican and Democrats, and create a third party.
Tell that to RL !!!!!!
It sure sounds like it to me! Just because you say it is so, doesn't make it so.
So...I guess this is his way of admitting that the Republican Party currently is a "party of angry white guys"? It's just not something they're going to be...one day in the far off future.
Go Independent and to the heck with the WIG!
You're right, Senator, there's still plenty of room for religious nutjobs, racists, and elitists!
Graham you can keep standing and loving your party of no since you are getting closer of being "The last one standing".
Extinct is the word I was looking for .
I may not agree on policy with Mr. Graham but I must credit him for at least acknowledging the weaknesses of his own party. The GOP has an image of being 'angry white men' that is ignorant of the needs of most Americans. Sometimes it is more important to make the right vote instead of following the party line as defined by a few talking heads.
How about just a Party of "Angry People" that are sick and tired of politicians taking them for a ride and leaving them off in the country without a wallet. Wise up Mr. Graham, don't get drawn into the Progressive Democrats stupid pet tricks.
You were placed in D.C. to represent Your state by the people that live there. They have said "stop spending our money". If you don't think you can uphold that end of the bargain, then you should be the one to leave.
Even though he makes sense, he's still a little delusional. The Republican Party has been a collection of angry white guys for decades. He's a bit late on trying to stop that.
He will not be able to stop the fall because he is part of the problem.
The Democrats have a golden opportunity to do good work for the people if they would just band together and do it.
The Republicans will do all they can to undermind any thing this President or Democrats try to do. We the people do not need the Republicans at this time and I wish President Obama and the Democrats would come to this realization sooner rather then later.
Thank God there is one smart Republican in Washington. It's too bad some of his groonies don't heed his advise. If they would, this country might just get something done. I applaud him, and I am definately not a Republican, but I still applaud him.
You gotta love it when the birth-baggers eat their own.
I suppose Sen. Graham wants to keep it a party of shrill, flip flopping, neocon hypocrites.
He is the embodiment of everything wrong in the republican party. The "leadership" of the republican party continues to ignore the tenets of conservatism that libertarians like Ron Paul have always taken to heart; personal responsibility, personal liberty and private property rights. These tenets are far more welcoming to all individuals of all races than the "conservative" shtick that Graham passes off as Republicanism.
Graham is so quick to say that the republican party will not be run on libertarian ideas, yet Ronald Reagan himself is quoted as saying that the very heart of the Republican party is libertarianism. Would he be so bold as to say that Reagan is as irrelevant as Ron Paul?
I can only hope that the good people of South Carolina get tired of being made into fools by their poor excuse of a Senator and vote in a actual conservative who will be strong enough to call out the hypocrisy of the neocon fringe.
I'm glad to see a true GOP politician vs RACIST cinticism which is a part of America discourse.
It's time for the Democrats and Republicans to truly fight for AMERICA and isolate the hatred to the small minded people.
AMERICA has evolved to a MUCH BETTER COUNTRY but the ugly hatred for the sake of venting isn't the answer.
AMERICANs has a "right to be angry" with the loss of jobs, homes, and financial security but this did not happen over night. GREED got us to this point and ANGER will only DISTROY and SEPARATE the US.
AMERICA let's show the world we are more MATURE than just venting angry people.
Hey Graham , you MORONS started this NOISE in August and now it has come back to BITE you in your GOP backside. You ask for it , now you have to LIVE WITH IT, the GOP will be CRUSHED in 2010 and presently in 2009. Oh by the way one of your COLLEAGES, Senator Snowe voted with the Democrats on HEALTH CARE REFORM BILL , today. Tell that to those NOISEY MORONS of yours. You have been HIJACKED by your own Party of NO , and the only FORWARD your moving your Party to is the BOTTOM OF THE BARREL. The NATION as the MAJORITY opposes YOU and the GOP, have you read your POLLS lately, the Republicans are at a ALL TIME LOWEST. No matter where you go Sen. Graham in the Country , read my COMMENT, Your TIME IS UP.
Graham thinks of himself as a conservative, thoughtful statesman.
Unfortuntely, the days when Republicans elected people like that are over.
LOL! You can't grow a political party that supports division, anti-people of color, pushes out of the party centrists, and only believes in far right religious views. You have to heal from within first...then you can grow.
"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!"
LOL! Too late, Lindsey. Should've been fighting this battle long before the religious, racist, FAUX NEWS/Talk radio crazies took control. LOL!
If you think the most liberal people in the world are in the Democratic Party' in Congress, you need to get out around the world more. Having said that though, I have to give Sen. Graham credit for trying. I have to admit that after 30 years of watching my GOP being hijacked first by the conservatives and now the American Taliban purists, I finally gave up and switched.
Jack Abramoff Loves Lindsey Grahm.
well it is already the party of no by all white people !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Gen. Colin Powell, said it best . . . The Republican Party left him.
Republican Party = Party of ANGRY PEOPLE !
WE ALL Heard The PALIN RALLIES last year.
For once, I have a new found respect for Mr. Graham. I think he has finally seen the light. How long will it last? I don't know but I am impressed. You can be republican, have your principles and still disagree with our president but do it respectfully. He is setting a great example right now and I only hope people will pay attention and come to appreciate this.
Thank you Senator Graham.
Too late! Give it up, make your party mascot the wooly mammoth!
Too late buddy, take a sec and look around....
Sorry, Lindsey, but the truth is your party has long been a gang of angry, bigoted white guys.
As ye sow, so shall ye reap.
Sen Graham and the Republicans grew these angry white guys, now they have to deal with them.
"I'm going to grow it. We're not going to be the party of angry white guys."
To late, you already are!
Although I don't agree with him on policy, Sen Graham is one of the few Republicans who understands that the party is shooting itself in the foot by just saying no.
NICE!... go Mr. Graham!
I tell ya... this guy has some stones... confronting an angry mob of Libertarians and Tea Baggers. Crazy Wing Nuts with Guns is not normally the type of crowd you want to rile up
Too late for that... you are a bunch of angry old white men
Lindsey,
"We're not going to be the party of angry white guys."
You are right – the GOP has always been the party of angry white guys, especially since 11/5/08! And it shows!
And your comment on the "don't ask; don't tell" policy... you are right - you should not make 'don't ask; don't tell' policy based on a campaign rally, but whether you've touched yourself! It's the true test of your character, hypocrisy; of the military folks; and those who wish to stuff their morality down others' throat.
"I love this party," he responded. "I'm not going to be let it be hijacked by Ron Paul."
Graham is right. The GOP can't be hijacked by Ron Paul. Rush, Beck, and Sarah Palin beat him to it.
It's funny that Graham says it. Does anyone else think he might be gay? I'm gay and the gaydar goes crazy around him.
I know you hate Lou Dobbs as much as we do. How can you even work at CNN? Say something!!
Sen Graham is right. Dont let them highjack the party.
The GOP has been perpetuating the extremism of its base. Now, the base is turning against the ones who aren't running around saying it's my way or no way. It will be interesting to see how this plays out.
Too late Lindsey, they already are. Have been for quite some time.
Huh, what do you know. A republican with half a brain and eye sight good enough to see the writing on the wall. Wonders never cease. The trick will be getting any of the party to come along with him. It's hard to move an elephant when they don't want to.
Its not a party of "angry white guys." Its a party of "angry white guys and Uncle Tom as its party leader".
And so it begins....
The imploding of the GOP. At some point there will be a viable 3rd party. And it will be many years before they are able to muster up the votes to out-gun the moderate common sense thinkers that comprise most Independants, the Dems and the Centrist Repubs.
Cuz most people don't vote for CRAZY!
i dont agree with 99 percent of what the right wingers stands for, they are lots of racists in this party but i do agree with the senator. the republican party are nothing more than haters and immigrants haters, had the republicans had its way this country would all white and thats what they really wants even today.
OMG– a Republican with common sense. Too bad he's speaking to a pack of Neanderthals....
I'm no fan of Republican's, and I have NOT agreed with Lindsey Graham on much...but, he's right on this.
Stop party politics and get things done in Washington!
Too Late!!!!
Sorry Mr. Graham, the "angry white guys" are the majority of your party; you haven't got a chance. You actually sound fairly reasonable for a
republican – maybe you can start that third party we so desperately need!
Ron Paul is not an angry white guy, either. Guess these far right-wing tea-baggers will need to dig up the bones of Joseph McCarthy to find the standard-bearer that they miss so much. And they'll have to re-inflate is liver, too.
DEMOCRATS SHOULD BE NERVOUS ABOUT LINDSEY GRAHAM.
S.C. Senator Graham is a true "compassionate conservative" but with the fight of a George Wallace and Nelson Rockefeller combined. Although Republican extremist cannot immediately see it, Graham is the best antidote to Barack Obama's presidency. Graham is politically strong, articulate, thoughtful, independent minded, and a staunch "family-values" GOP conservative (unlike Nevada Sen. John Ensign, or Louisiana Sen. David Vitter).
GO LINDSEY, GO!
He's right! It has that one angry black man!
Hallelujah!
Too late, Lindsay. You already are and have been for the past forty years!
Stand you ground Mr. Graham, STAND YOUR GROUND!
God Bless you
Houston TX
What is wrong with you republican politicians. Do you only watch NBC, who's side are you on. I am not an angry white person (nor is anyone else I know), I disagree with the liberal agenda... THAT IS WHY I HAVE BEEN REPUBLICAN....NOW TURNED INDEPEDENT.
i like this fool
It already is!
The GOP is already the party of angry white guys, and that seems to be the way they like it. Unfortunately for them (and fortunately for everyone else) the country is passing them by. They're dinosaurs.
Something tells me the audience was mostly angry white guys, booing.
The first real talk I've heard from a Republican in years. Senator Graham's opiniont sounds like reason in the face of cynical, nonsensical, fringe-led adversity. The GOP needs to speak more reason and less misinformation. If not, eventually, no one will believe them, even when they're right. Town hall meetings of "angry (and usually older) white people" do not define all of America. We need more voices of reason and moderation in politics. The American people are starting to realize that with all this arguing -ABSOLUTELY NOTHING – is being done for the sake of the country at a crucial point in history. Empty hands are empty hands. Party affiliation doesn't matter much at that point. Olympia Snow and Lindsey Graham said it best.. Will others in Washington listen? The GOP and DEMs should work together on issues to help the rest of us. The majority of hard-working Americans don't much care about Washington poltics.
I totally agree with him. I am a conservative democrat who votes for who I think will do the best job, not what party they are affiliated with. However with the socialistic administration that is in place ( which I did not vote for) I would think very seriously about voting for a republican candidate that was closer to my own views than the far left democrat radicals that are currently in the administration and congress.
The Republican Party is already the party of big government, Senator Graham. It doesn't need more people like you who vote for increases in spending.
I used to be a Republican and will never go there again... They have become a Party of hate and decision and they will destroy America because a house divided against itself cannot stand...and they thrive on division
Having said that – I applaud Senator Graham because he clearly is one of the very LAST Republicans who truly loves this country, and not just his Party's ideology above all else.
He is absolutely right. The Republican Party cannot expand beyond its hate-loving base if it continues to be the Party of lies, deceit and belligerence. They cannot survive on such a narrow base.
"GOP not going to be the party of angry white guys," says the angry white guy.
Give him a little credit.
BUT, don't let your daughter have an abortion. Force her to birth!! Strap her down if ncessary!
AND, please, you can have all the guns you want, big fella, but make DANG sure the person it kills is someone you love and not someone I love!
Kinda like that guy who recently shot his gun-totin' wife while she was online with another guy! Yep! Keep it in the family!
Graham's support of John McCain cost his party everything from
the White House to the Senate & House. He'd do much good for
his party by leaving it. If he thinks his party is too white, what is it
doing with a National Chairman who is Afro-American, Michael
Steele?
hahahahaha... it's a like a pack of hungry rats. they are starting to feed on each on other. I LOVE IT.
Graham: GOP 'not going to be the party of angry white guys'
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Good luck with that, Sen Graham.
Mr. Graham should just relax and enjoy his remaining (short) time in political office.
I think he'll be great on Dancing with the Stars.
Political parties are not supposed "to grow." They are supposed to stand for certain values and principles that are NEVER to be compromised just for the sake of winning votes. I would much rather be a member of a minority party that loses, than a party that wins, yet does not stand for anything but winning elections.
I wish Graham would do the republican party a big favor and leave it. He is pro-criminal, pro-illegal alien, and pro-wreckless government spending. The repubican party needs to cleanse itself of politicians like him before it becomes watered-down to the point of being completely irrelevant.
The party of Ron Paul may be more diverse than the modern day Republican Party. What Lindsey Graham is missing is that this country IS moving forward, unfortunately for the Republican party it is a move that doesn't favor them
Ridiculous, out of touch, non-representative of the people. These are just a few words to describe Graham and the GOP of today. We have no two-party system; we have two sides of the same coin. The differences are minor if insignificant. With 40% of the country self-described as conservative, and a mere 21% self-described as liberal, the GOP should get about the business of listening to the constituants. "If you don't like it, you can leave" is unacceptable.
My homeboy LIndsey gives me HOPE! And he's right.....too many republicans have lost their way! It is 2009 not 1809! America is a much different place and either you're on board or you get left behind! This train is moving and fast........
Too late! The Republican Party already is the party of angry white guys. It has been that way ever since Nixon transformed the party with his "Southern Strategy".
I watch the Republican party condense down to its social conservative base with glee – I really want that to continue, so that a new socially liberal/financial conservative party can form that does not include the social conservatives.
Pretty soon the GOP will be made up of about 1000 televangelists and their followers, all armed to the teeth, ready to secede.
But if you kick the angry white people out, you won't have a party. You might want to make an exception, allowing the racists to remain, in which case, you'll keep all of them still in the party!
Senator Graham is one voice of reason in the Republican Party and has my respect for taking on the fringe element of that party. I am a President Obama supporter, and I find Senator Graham a gentleman in the way he speaks and refers to his President.
It's too late for the the party of obstruction and "NO". They are now angrier, racist, terrorists and hate-monguering, screaming lunatics.
sorry senator, but your party is already extinct.
"I love this party," he responded. "I'm not going to be let it be hijacked by Ron Paul."
I love that comment. The truth is, if these teabaggers and so called conservatives believed one thing that comes out of their own mouths they would have voted for Ron Paul. He, as crazy as he is, at least can back up his craziness by the way he's voted. Graham and the rest of the Republicans are nothing but a bunch of hypocrites. That's why when they constantly scream about deficits I ignore them.
And alienating women, Hispanics, Black people, and gays pretty much leaves you with a party of "angry white guys".
*LOL* Even Lindsey Graham is now engaging in identity politics. How pathetic! Does he want to be voted out instead of just retiring as one of South Carolina's senator? What he clearly doesn't realize is that the party base WANTS to embrace Ron Paul-like politicians. Libertarians are much more likely to attract independents to the party than lying conservatives like Lindsey Graham.
Not going to change my skin color but I will continue to be an educated white conservative who understands fiscal policy, thus, I see the path we are on is not sane nor will it result in net job growth...you also do not have to embrace ALL aspects of the green movement (that would be ludicrous and counter-productive), however, itis correct to strive for cleaner fules (fossil included0) and a clean environment.
It's too late for the the party of obstruction and just say "NO". They are now angrier, racist, terrorists and hate-monguering, screaming lunatics.
Too late...
some one has to grow up and step up to the plate rather obamo theme on change work or not its time for us all to come togother this stuff going on around here is not just hurting the poor but the middle class too
It is not Ron Paul who has hijacked the Republican party.
It is Rush, Hannity, Beck, Coulter, Malkin, Kristol, Dick and Liz Cheney, Faux News, Bachman, etc. who have hijacked the Republican party.
Ha ha ha, the problem is not that the GOP has been hijacked by Ron Paul – he's actually a smart and honest man, the problem is that they've been hijacked by Rush Limbaugh, Sarah Palin, the Cheneys, and the Fox propaganda network. The Dark Ages way of (non)-thinking has set in, so good luck Lindsey. These people don't even want to hear anything that upsets their idea of reality, facts or not.
need more in the 60/40 group ...on both sides,, no many radicals like shurmer and boxer...we need more nelson and pryor...the senate looks like a retirement home... we need new blood on both sides...
"We're not going to be the party of angry white guys." LOL – You already ARE a party of Angry "OLD" White Guys that still live on 1950's standards.
Mr. Graham is right and I believe him. He does not represent the angry white guys. Unfortunately, Mr. Graham is one of the only handful guys who are not angry in his party. What is he going to do to help his party grows with the least angry guys?
"I'm going to grow it. We're not going to be the party of angry white guys." Sounds a little like racism to me, but then I tend to look at the color of one's blood ~ rather than their skin ~ especially when I know they're doing their best to defend & represent our country throughout the world. Too bad some of the GOP might be color blind when it comes to the blood being shed by those who REALLY matter!
No worries, Lindsay, I left long ago. And I suspect as more of your compatriots true colors are seen, there will be many joining me
"If you don't like it, you can leave," are well spoken words by Senator Graham. He is right in saying that the GOP has become the party of angry white men. That is clear because the audience booed him when Graham made the comment. They want to see him as a "good ole boy" seeking to keep this country "pure". Is this what the GOP has become?
Oh, I think it is the party of angry white guys.
As a TRUE Republican, I'd like to see this guy go over with Spector so WE can move on without this loser.
REAL REPUBLICANS in 2010!!!!!!
Thank you Mr. Graham for your comments
...Oops !!! – Too Late.
Right on Lindsey Graham!. Thank you for having the guts to stand up! I am a d Democrate ,but the party of Abramham Lincoln and his principals need to be protected. We need two viable partiesn not this out of control ideology.
Who is Lindsey kidding? His ridiculous attempt to insult Ron Paul is not going to grow the "party."
And the GOP has already been hijacked >> by extreme right-wing fundamentalists and the neocons, who are largely Caucasian males with a destructive agenda.
These GOPers should go the way of the Whigs.
This guy is a hypocrite (at best). He says he wants to "broaden the party" but insists that "[he's] not going to let it be hijacked by Ron Paul."
So as long as the republican party is full of politicians who don't act like republicans then he's growing the party. This guy is the fringe, a kook, and basically an angry white guy.
But you are Blanche, you ARE the party of angry white guys. Denial isn't a pretty thing on anybody, least of all you Sen. Graham.
It's too late, the GOP IS the party of "angry white guys", the Grumpy Old Party. They make alot of noise, prey upon peoples fears, but have nothing to offer and absolutly no sympathy for those suffering during the recession. They are rigid in their beliefs, behind the times, and are so full of hate it just makes me sick.
Now there a Republican I can get behind, willing to fight for the soul of the party.
Too late.