Letter from Lindsey Graham
Snail mail letter | June 25, 2007

Posted on 06/25/2007 6:10:17 PM PDT by upchuck

Back in May a thread was posted here in which Lindsey, speaking before La Raza, said, "We're gonna tell the BIGOTS to SHUT UP." Link. That quote was actually the end of a rant. Here, courtesy of Slate is the entire rant:

We are going to solve this problem, we're not going to run people down, w'ere [sic] not gonna scapegoat people, we're gonna tell the bigots to shut up, and we're gonna get it right.

Quite frankly, since Lindsey is, unfortunately, my Senator, that really pissed me off.

I sent him a very assertive but polite email ripping him a new one for his comments.

Today, more than a month later, I received his reply via snail mail.

I'll not bore you with all of it. Usual political bla-bla-bla. However, I do think you'll be interested in his comments about his bigots remark:

During my speech to members of the La Raza group, I called upon Americans to come together and reject the intolerance of the loud minority. In no way do I consider those who simply disagree with me on this issue of immigration bigots. I have close friends who do not share my views, as well as respected colleagues in the Senate. By no means do I consider opposing views bigotry. However, make no mistake that the issue of immigration has been exploited by groups such as the Ku Klux Klan and the National Socialist Movement, or the Nazi party, to attract new membership and further their larger agendas. Their well-publicized marches and rallies capitalize on the emotionalism of the issue and essentially sensationalize immigration, making it a platform to spread messages of hatred and intolerance spanning far beyond the issue of immigration. It is to groups such as these and individuals with these hateful ideologies that I directed my comments - not the Americans who simply think differently than me.

Wow, nice spin Lindsey. Lots and lots of big, multisyllabic words. I'm impressed. Not.

If any of you have heard anything about the KKK or the Nazis doing as Lindsey claims, could you please post a link? Thanks. I scoured all over the Internet and can't find a thing. I guess Lindsey's motto is, "When I've said something I shouldn't have and I'm up against the wall trying to explain why I said it, I'll just blame it on the Nazis and the KKK. Yeah, yeah, that'll work."

Uh-huh.

To my fellow South Carolinians, now, more than ever, Lindsey must go.
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