In a Republican presidential candidate pool that looked for the most part like a group of escapees from an insane asylum, prior to his suspension of his campaign, Lindsey Graham, a/k/a the Palmetto Queen, much to my surprise actually came across as a reasonable candidate. While Graham bears his share of the blame for the decline of the GOP into a fetid mass of lunatics suffering from swamp fever, he at least seems willing to admit how off the rails the GOP has become. Last night on The Daily Show again enunciated the sad state of the GOP. Here are highlights from a piece in Huffington Post:
For Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), the only thing worse
than the prospect of Ted Cruz as president is the prospect of Donald Trump as
president.
Graham begrudgingly expressed his
support for Cruz in an interview with Trevor Noah on Wednesday night, telling
“The Daily Show” host that the Texas senator was his “15th choice” to win
the GOP nomination.
Graham ultimately concluded that
Cruz should be the nominee because “he’s not Trump.”
And that’s where things got
interesting.
“If Donald Trump carries the
banner of my party,” Graham said, “I think it taints conservatism for
generations to come. I think his campaign is opportunistic, race-baiting,
religious bigotry, xenophobia. Other than that, he’d be a good nominee.”
Noah played a short video clip
from late January in which Graham, who was himself a candidate earlier in the
presidential race, was asked if he preferred a Cruz nomination or a Trump
nomination.
“That’s... like [asking if I’d
rather be] shot or poisoned,” Graham responded in the video, “What does it
really matter?”
Asked by Noah which candidate is
doing the shooting and which is the poison, Graham answered, “Donald is like
being shot in the head. You might find an antidote to poisoning, I don’t know,
but maybe there’s time.”
“I’m saying my party is
completely screwed up for the moment,” he added.
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