On a Monday night in late August, Sen. Lindsey Graham was
traveling with a congressional delegation in Africa when the three Republicans
who are challenging him in the 2014 GOP primary joined a large and strongly
conservative crowd at Rep. Jeff Duncan's annual Faith and Freedom Barbecue. To
listen to Graham's opponents tell it, that situation -- a lawmaker who is far
away and out-of-touch -- is emblematic of the senator's relationship with his
constituents.
"The people in South Carolina are very conservative,
and he's been working with Obama and acting as if he's the Secretary of State,
when he should be representing the people of South Carolina," said one of
the challengers, Lee Bright, a state senator from the Greenville/Spartanburg
area.
"He just doesn't represent South Carolina very
well," said challenger Richard Cash, a businessman who nearly won a House
seat in 2010. "He voted for Justice Sotomayor ... and then he did the same
thing with Justice Kagan. We don't like his leadership on immigration -- we
believe it's another Grahamnesty. He's not just on the wrong side of the issue,
he's a leader on the wrong side."....To Read More.....
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