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Title: Lindsey Graham: 2016 likely lost, but stopping Donald Trump can save GOP
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Published: Mar 26, 2016
Author: Washington Times
Post Date: 2016-03-26 08:54:56 by HAPPY2BME-4UM
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Lindsey Graham: 2016 likely lost, but stopping Donald Trump can save GOP
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, in this Jan. 21, 2016, file photo. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File) more >
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By S.A. Miller - The Washington Times -
Thursday, March 24, 2016
Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham said Thursday that his party will probably lose the presidential race to Democrat Hillary Clinton no matter who gets the nomination, but stopping Donald Trump would at least “salvage a party that I love.”
“If Trump is the standard bearer, it’s not about 2016. It’s about losing the heart and soul of the conservative movement,” Mr. Graham said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.”
Mr. Graham dropped out of the presidential race and reluctantly threw his support behind Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, who has become the GOP establishment’s go-to candidate to stop the front-running Mr. Trump.
He said Mr. Cruz was the only candidate who had a “fighting chance” of beating Mrs. Clinton in the general election.
“Here’s my concern: We can lose in 2016, and we probably will,” he said. “Trump gets wiped out. Ted makes it competitive. I don’t know if he can beat her or not, but at least we’ll have a fighting chance.”
The South Carolina senator said that Mr. Trump and his harsh rhetoric would lose women and Hispanic voters in the election, possibility driving them from the Republican Party for years to come.
He also faulted Mr. Trump for appealing to people such as David Duke, a former Grand Wizard in the Ku Klux Klan who said he supports some ofMr. Trump’s agenda.
“I’m not going to stand behind a guy that gets David Duke’s support. What is it about Trump’s campaign that David Duke likes,” Mr. Grahamsaid. “I don’t think he is a reliable conservative Republican. So it is no longer about winning the election for me. It is about trying to salvage a party that I love and conservatism as I know it.”
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#2. To: HAPPY2BME-4UM (#0)
The question we really need to ask is, do we really need to save the GOP? After all, there isn't a dime's worth of difference between the two parties. ;)
#5. To: BTP Holdings (#2)
============================================= I don't think it is worth 'saving.' You can't save what you never had?
Not much of a question, is it, B! :-) Clyde Wilson: "The Republican Party must be destroyed. That is the first and most necessary step toward salvation" http://www.chroniclesmagazine.org/derail-fast-track/ Doc Carter is working very hard to line up candidates for vetting by the Constitution Party as an alternative. The CP's a long shot, but there's never been a riper opportunity for it. 7 hardy souls came to our meeting in York County today, one of whom arose during our recent multi-week effort there http://www.heraldonline.com/news/local/article51022275.html Doc reports she has a degree in poli-sci from Michigan. He started explaining that the CP is very conservative, you must be 100% prolife etc., and she answers that she was once pregnant O.W. but being a good Catholic decided to have the child, now aged 23. How good can it get? Rare use of magic marker -- ran out of 1" foam-rubber brushes :-x
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Replies to Comment # 2. The question we really need to ask is, do we really need to save the GOP? After all, there isn't a dime's worth of difference between the two parties. ;)
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