Graham’s Words Come Back To Haunt Him

Bob Conley is being endorsed by ALIPAC because he has promised to oppose Amnesty in any form for illegal aliens and to support more immigration enforcement and border security. Senator Graham has received a deplorable grade of ‘D’ at betterimmigration.com

“We have a case in South Carolina, where Bob Conley better represents the over 80% of voters who prefer enforcement over amnesty,” said Gheen. “Lindsay Graham supports Amnesty over enforcement of our existing immigration laws and his own words are about to come back to haunt him.” [read it all]

Buchanan for Conley

Buchanan Family Endorses Conley Campaign

COLUMBIA, SC October 17, 2008 − Democratic challenger Bob Conley, running for South Carolina’s U.S. Senate seat against incumbent Senator Lindsey Graham, has received an endorsement and campaign contribution from a prominent family that is recognized and respected by patriots across the nation.

“This small contribution carries with it the Buchanan family’s gratitude for the loyalty of Bob Conley to the Buchanan Brigades of yesteryear, and my personal best wishes for his success in his brave and uphill Senate campaign, which reminds me of our own efforts in days gone by,” said Shelley S. Buchanan, the wife of author, television commentator, and former presidential candidate, Patrick J. Buchanan.

“I am very grateful for the Buchanan family’s show of support for our grassroots campaign,” said Bob Conley. “This support has re-energized our staff, supporters and contributors for the final leg of the campaign.”

“I urge conservatives everywhere to come to the aid our campaign. I welcome everyone who believes as I do that the federal government has embarked on a dangerous course that threatens to further erode our civil liberties, expand global entanglements, plunder our tax dollars, and perpetuate the climate of corruption in Washington,” Conley said. “As the next Senator from South Carolina, I will work with fellow patriots in Congress to restore constitutional government in Washington.” [link]

Conley and Graham Debate: Initial Reaction

My immediate impressions of the Graham/Conley debate:

How can I characterize the first and only televised debate between the South Carolina Senate seat contenders Bob Conley and Lindsey Graham? Well, my overall impression calls for recollection. I remember the 1992 debate between George Bush the Elder, Bill Clinton, and Ross Perot. This seemed like a revisitation of that presidential debate, minus George HW Bush.

Basically, it was Bill Clinton vs. Ross Perot: Republican candidate Lindsey Graham (Bill Clinton) vs. Democratic candidate Bob Conley (Ross Perot).

In a nutshell, whatever their positions on a particular issue, the two candidates came across clearly as to what drives their agendas. Conley’s interest is primarily America, and Graham’s the ‘global economy’ (his words).

Graham spoke in classic lawyer style making it all about him first and then turning it to being about ‘you’. He seemed to be vying for the position of White House Secretary for Bush the Younger and (though I didn’t count the times he dropped the name) for chief McCain advisor for the Senate.

This is extraordinarily disturbing. Nowhere did Graham promote the idea of representing the Republic of South Carolina or even the United States of America, but spoke frequently of NATO, the UN, and often implied the WTO.

South Carolina is faced with a clear choice for the one to truly REPRESENT South Carolina to the federal government: one who represents the restoration of Constitutional government in Washington or one who represents the globalists’ interests to the people of South Carolina and the federal government.

Left Meets Right

South Carolina’s Senator DeMint: “our own Government appears to be leading our country into the pit of socialism”

Read text of the speech here. 

DeMint: Nay; Graham: Yea OR Conley: Nay

SC Senators split over Economic Bailout Plan

by Robert Kittle

Even though they’re from the same party, South Carolina’s two U.S. senators don’t agree on the $700 billion economic bailout plan being debated in Washington. Sen. Lindsey Graham says the bailout is a bad choice, but not passing it would be catastrophic to our economy. Sen. Jim DeMint says passing the bailout will worsen our debt and weaken the dollar.

Sen. DeMint says government meddling is at least partly to blame for the crisis it’s now trying to solve. “This is a failure because government injected itself into the free market, created this easy credit, these guaranteed loans, and these loans are what have turned into the bad paper that are bringing all these financial institutions down,” he says. . . .

Graham’s opponent in the upcoming election, Democrat Bob Conley, thinks Congress should not pass the bailout and the companies in trouble should be allowed to fail. He says of the bailout plan, “It’s going to again devalue our currency, with more money being put out there. And secondly, it’s another case of the middle class having to pay for the failures of the fat cats on Wall Street.”

Radio Forum w/ Conservative Democrat, Bob Conley

Jack Hunter, the ‘Southern Avenger’ hosted a radio forum with the conservative Democratic US Senate candidate Bob Conley who will face Senator Lindsey Graham this fall:

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Graham, Conley, & the Xenophobe Label

Brad Warthen of the aptly titled newspaper, The State, has begun an attack on conservative Democratic US Senate candidate Bob Conley. On his DHEC (Department of Health and Environmental Control) funded blog, he accuses Conley and his supporters of being ‘nativists’ a term begun by McCain to replace the oftentimes used term ‘xenophobe’. I left this response:

The xenophobia label is an inadequate description and doesn’t address the truth of the matter. How about liberty? Liberty is deeply rooted in private property and non-aggression by the state. The intentional mass immigration is another aggressive big governement program. Driving down wages and living standards is the opposite of promoting prosperity and the general welfare.
The liberal policies that Graham and his ilk promote serve only to promote the prosperity of them and their corporate allies at the neglect of their constituents: the American worker and entrepreneur.
While Conley’s propositions aren’t perfect, they are certainly better than Graham’s pathetic ‘moderation’ (code word for leftist).

Conley’s website says this about jobs and immigration:

Corporate greed is robbing us of our jobs and driving our down our wages. Bob Conley supports secure borders. Corporations that fuel the immigration fire must pay the price. Greedy corporations and unscrupulous businessmen profit, while our working families and taxpayers foot the bill for services for illegals. This is corporate welfare, and it must end.

The legal importation of foreign workers is also driving down wages, and placing Americans in unemployment lines. This is wrong, and must end. Policy needs to change and should be based on what is good for our workers, our families, and our communities – not the bottom lines of corporations and their lobbyists’ demands!

The term ‘corporate greed’ seems typical of Democratic vocabulary, but I would probably extend that to the uniting of corporations and the government bureaucracy in unholy matrimony. As a former Republican who boasts that he voted for Ron Paul in the primary, when he says, ‘our workers, our families, and our communities,’ I take that to be literal and not (as is the case with most mainstream Democrats) to be another code word for the state’s dominion over those things.

The labels of ‘nationalism’, ‘nativism’, and ‘xenophobia’ are merely intended to conjure up images of National Socialism. The current popular opinion regarding immigration issues has very little to do with aggressive statism, but is, in fact, opposition to it. If we addressed this issue in terms of personal liberty and property rights instead of the usual tit-for-tat name game, real solutions may surface.

 

Conley to Face Graham

US Senate primary recount: Conley to face Graham

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Bob Conley, a Democratic newcomer to South Carolina politics, will take on Republican U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham in November after a recount Monday gave Conley a narrow victory over a primary opponent. [the rest]

 

A Ron Paul Democrat?

Could the alleged “Ron Paul Democrat” Bob Conley challenge the “John McCain Republican” Lindsey Graham in South Carolina this fall?

Radio personality Southern Avenger comments on Democrat candidate for US Senate Bob Conley on YouTube: