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Wow!<\/p>\n

Lindsey Graham today offered the most compelling campaign argument against his own candidacy I’ve ever heard.<\/p>\n

The South Carolina Republican, who’s running for his party’s 2016 presidential nomination, said it flat out. “Don’t vote for me if you’re worn out by war.”<\/p>\n

http:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/defense\/244022-graham-dont-vote-for-me-if-youre-anti-war<\/p>\n

Well, senator, no worries there.<\/p>\n

What he told “Morning Joe” on MSNBC is that he’s going to be the “war candidate.” He plans, if elected to the presidency, to send more troops into Iraq; he also plans to send troops into Syria; he plans to enlist Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Turkey and whichever other regional ally will join, to help American troops defeat the Islamic State and then keep the peace.<\/p>\n

Oh, how long will they be there? “A long time,” he said.<\/p>\n

There’s no exit strategy. No timetable. No end to the bloodshed.<\/p>\n

Get ready for battle, he warned.<\/p>\n

Oh, if you’re tired of fighting a war, don’t vote for me, he said.<\/p>\n

No-o-o-o-o problem. You’ve got a deal, Sen. Graham.<\/p>\n

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Wow! Lindsey Graham today offered the most compelling campaign argument against his own candidacy I’ve ever heard. The South Carolina Republican, who’s running for his party’s 2016 presidential nomination, said it flat out. “Don’t vote for me if you’re worn out by war.” http:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/defense\/244022-graham-dont-vote-for-me-if-youre-anti-war Well, senator, no worries there. What he told “Morning Joe” on … Continue reading ‘Don’t vote for me if you’re worn out by war’<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,13,14],"tags":[73,1958,2330,2798,3050,3132,3155,4489,4927],"class_list":["post-9614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-news","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-2016-campaign","tag-gop-nomination","tag-iraq","tag-lindsey-graham","tag-middle-east","tag-morning-joe","tag-msnbc","tag-syria","tag-turkey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9614\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}