SC Megathread 2020: Graham Crackers, Cunning-Ham Sandwiches and Duncan Donuts

[GeneralMacArthur]

Has any group intervened to hype the Constitution candidate & say Graham is not a true Trump fan?

Here's the ad:


(zoom in on Graham's face in each transition)
Lindsey Graham:  negative quote about Trump
Lindsey Graham:  negative quote about Trump
Lindsey Graham:  quick cut of insulting Trump
freeze frame, fade to black+white

Male voice:  Lindsey Graham will say anything.  He's only out for himself.  Isn't it time we had a true conservative?  Someone who's loyal to our president and will have his back?

(glamour shot of Bill Bledsoe)

Vote for Bill Bledsoe to tell Lindsey Graham "you ain't fooling anyone"

This ad paid for by Friends of Bill Bledsoe.

[GeneralMacArthur]

FYI that ad is by MeidasTouch, not Jaime Harrison.

Like so many of these PACs making slick video ads, I don't think they're actually booking airtime.  They're just putting the ad up on the internet for an audience of potential donors.

[GeneralMacArthur]

This image is prominently featured on Lindsey Graham's website:



Has Lindsey ever considered making cowboy boots part of his image?  Or just putting wedges in his shoes.  You can add 2 inches to your height by doing that.  That would at least get him to 5'8 which is pretty average.

[GeneralMacArthur]

Oh my God! What a point, Graham just raised. As he indicated in the most recent senate debat forum, two days ago, if the Democrats take control of the Senate, Bernie Sanders would be in line to be Chairman of the Budget Committee, which means a vote for Jaime Harrison is a vote for a socialist agenda imposing massive wasteful spending, raising job-killing taxes by trillions of dollars, making America dependent on foreign energy and banning fracking, which would be a disaster for the economy.

We can watch this from 35:32 to 35:50 of this video below.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K39Emjp4wJ0

Graham also mentionned that if the Republicans keep the Senate he would be the next Budget Committee Chairman, making the choice clear for South Carolinians between either socialist take-over of the budget and of Americans' money or a pro-growth agenda creating jobs through free enterprise, small government and tax reform.

That should be helpful for Graham in order to mobilize conservative voters, including fiscal conservatives, across South Carolina and convince them not to stay home on Election Day.

This will surely sink the Harrison campaign. Oh god, the issue on everyone's mind during these tough times, who will be the successor of Mike Enzi to the position of Chair of the Senate Budget Committee. This issue, so potent will render everyone completely oblivious to the economy, COVID, and state of our nation. Sanders, the undisputed embodiment of the Democratic Party will bring the party in this crucial race

Anyone who pretends to care about this should have to name the current chairman of the Senate Budget Committee.

[GeneralMacArthur]

Very glad to see my "stop donating to meme candidates who don't have a chance in hell" speech aged poorly here.

If Harrison donated half of that $57M to Al Gross and the other half to Steve Bullock we'd be all-but-guaranteed to flip those two seats.

Not to hate on Jaime, who is awesome, or his fantastic campaign.  Just that the sudden competitiveness of this race doesn't justify massive donations to Jaime at the expense of other candidates.

[GeneralMacArthur]

That's a brilliant strategy by the Harrison campaign.  Lindsey Graham has flip flopped so many times on so many issues, Harrison could just use different quotes and videos of Graham in different targeted advertising.

1) Use right wing quotes from Lindsey to drive up liberal base voters and black voters in certain areas

2) Use video footage of Graham attacking Trump in conservative areas of the state

3) Use videos that highlight Graham's flip flopping and total lack of self-dignity in educated parts of the state and suburbs like Charleston.

I can think of a lot of words to describe Jaime Harrison; « consistent » is not one of them. When it comes to police defunding, he once said earlier this year that he's opposed to any effort to defund the police, but he accepted funds from groups that promote defunding the police. On transparency, he said, back in 2017, quote « Why the hell did it have to prompt @PressSec to get that damn tax return out of his file cabinet?! » And now he refuses to match the 11 years of state and federal tax returns that Graham released. He's just one to talk on flip-flop.

Joe Biden wants to double the capital-gains tax rate, but he accepted funds from GeneralMacArthur, who opposes that tax increase.  What's your real position, Joe?  Typical politician, he'll probably sell out to his donors first chance he gets.

Also, I will pay you $100 if you can find one single real, genuine South Carolina voter who gives a damn that Jaime Harrison, who has released his tax returns, hasn't released whatever specific subset of his returns Lindsey is now demanding after the latest goalpost-shifting.

[GeneralMacArthur]

Unfortunately, I don't think that ad is playing anywhere, and it's not even publicly listed on YouTube.  You have to directly navigate to it.

Lincoln Project has been making a lot of money writing really good ads that they only run on the internet and the choir is their only audience.  I don't know how many Republicans in South Carolina will actually see this ad.

[GeneralMacArthur]

Republicans need to get their talking points straight.

Half of the party is saying "lol hysterical libtards think ACB wants to repeal Obamacare -- nobody is gonna repeal Obamacare."

The other half is saying "Obamacare is a DISASTER and we must get ACB to the court so it can be repealed!"

which is it, you evil clowns?

[GeneralMacArthur]

Remember that South Carolina has some of the most stringent voter access laws in the country.  Absentee ballots must be signed by a witness, and there's no early voting.  Voter registration closed a month before election day.