An apt description, nevertheless inappropriate.
He's wrong! There is nothing ambiguous about it!
Despite ‘ambiguously gay’ barb, four Graham foes unite
COLUMBIA, SC — A gay barb lobbed at U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham by the most unknown of his June Republican primary challengers will not deter a pact of support some of them made Thursday.
Four of the Seneca Republican’s challengers pledged Thursday at the State House to endorse whoever among them makes it into a runoff with Graham – if the pack can hold the two-term incumbent to half the vote.
The news conference announcing the alliance took an unexpected turn when the most minor of Graham’s opponents, Juan “Dave” Feliciano of Spartanburg, showed up, signed the pledge and took to the podium to call Graham “ambiguously gay.”
“It’s about time that South Carolina (says), ‘Hey, we’re tired of the ambiguously gay senator from South Carolina. We’re ready for a new leader to merge the Republican Party,” Feliciano said. “We’re done with this. This is what it’s about, all of us coming together and saying, one way or the other, one of us is going to be on that ballot in November.”
Feliciano, an ex-police officer who says he resigned to run for the Senate, signed the pact with state Sen. Lee Bright of Spartanburg, Easley businessman Richard Cash and Orangeburg attorney Bill Connor before the news conference began.
After the event, Connor renounced Feliciano’s comments as personal attacks and personal opinion, which he did not endorse.
Cash said he believes in free speech, “but I also believe in being civil and respectful. Mr. Feliciano’s comments were inappropriate and I disavow any association with them (the comments).”
However, both Cash and Connor said they would honor the pledge that they signed.
Bright left before Feliciano’s comments, but later said, “He hasn’t said anything that would be contrary to conservative beliefs. He just expressed an opinion.
“But that doesn’t say anything about how he would vote in the U.S. Senate,” Bright added. “Graham has done and said much more offensive things.”
Graham long has been dogged by opponents questioning his sexuality.
In 2001, S.C. Democratic Party chairman Dick Harpootlian said Graham was “a little too light in the loafers” to succeed the state’s longest-serving senator, Strom Thurmond, a notorious womanizer. Harpootlian said he did not know the phrase could be taken as an insult toward homosexuals, but Graham, then an Upstate congressman, said it was intended to slander him.
In the 2002 Senate race, Alex Sanders, Graham’s Democratic opponent, ran campaign ads that emphasized his life as a family man. Graham, who is unmarried and has no children, had his sister appear in an ad.
Last year, Charleston public relations executive Nancy Mace, another of Graham’s June GOP primary opponents, made headlines for re-tweeting a supporter’s comment calling Graham a “Nancy boy.” Mace insisted a staffer, not her, re-tweeted the message. But she took responsibility for the tweet, which was quickly deleted from her campaign account.
Graham has said repeatedly that he is not gay.
Last year, he said he was “disappointed” in a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that struck down a provision of the Defense of Marriage Act. Graham voted for the law in the U.S. House and, as a senator, wrote a brief to the court urging defense of the law.
“I believe in the traditional definition of marriage. ... I have been a strong supporter of the Defense of Marriage Act,” Graham said in a statement at the time, adding the ruling would not change South Carolina law.
http://www.islandpacket.com/2014/03/13/3000387/despite-ambiguously-gay-barb-four.html (http://www.islandpacket.com/2014/03/13/3000387/despite-ambiguously-gay-barb-four.html)
the most minor of the candidatesWell, now we know why they are the most minor of candidates, now, don't we?
Bright is the best candidate
.. but this guy is right about Lindsay and most everyone knows it.
And, since these four have linked themselves at the hip, unless each one specifically disavows this statement, each one will own it.Spoken like a true Democrat.
And Lindsey Graham will win in a walk.
And, since these four have linked themselves at the hip, unless each one specifically disavows this statement, each one will own it.
And Lindsey Graham will win in a walk.