Lindsey Graham has his moments

There's people in this country that are having a hard time reconciling with the fact that we have a black president.

Republican Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina is a conservative who is not always on good terms with the party's redneck base. While Graham predominantly holds socially conservative views, he occasionally speaks out and criticizes conservative positions. For instance, Graham supported nationalizing American banks. In 2000, Graham backed John McCain's presidential run, who hammered Bush and big "oil money". He also supported 2006's McCain-Kennedy Immigration Reform Bill, and the 2007 Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act, as Graham is a supporter of "comprehensive immigration reform". This position in particular earned him the scorn of the far right and the base, to which Graham replied:

We are going to solve this problem. We're not going to run people down. We're not going to scapegoat people. We're going to tell the bigots to shut up, and we're going to get this right.

Earlier this month, Graham expressed support for climate change legislation:

We will be working closely with the White House over the course of the next weeks with a few to try to pull together what ultimately could be presented to Senator Reid and the leadership as a piece of legislation that we hope could get the sixty votes necessary to pass or more, and we would hope it would be more.



Graham has also spoken out against Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh and the teabagging freaks: