That’s the quick conclusion when I read the title of his hit post on Karoline Leavitt:
Leavitt Faces Questions After Ally Calls Ukraine President a “Thug”
Now to be sure – I have no favorites in the First Congressional District race right now. We are going to start our GrokGauntlets soon to ask the questions that Conservatives want to be asked so I’ll wait until then to make up my mind. It IS rather obvious that NH GOP Establishment leaning Graham believes that spunky Leavitt isn’t his cup of TEA – and someone else is. So Graham goes further:
North Carolina Rep. Madison Cawthorn, a rock star of the fringe Right who’s campaigned in New Hampshire with GOP candidate Karoline Leavitt, is under fire for calling Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy a “thug.” It’s a politically tone-deaf move at a time when Americans are rallying around the war-torn nation and many consider Zelenskyy a hero in the model of Winston Churchill.
Apparently, Graham has lost all sense of the history of Ukraine before Putin’s invasion. A Rock Star now for standing up to the Evil Empire (and in THIS, there can be few complaints), he’s no choir boy in his own right. I have to admit that while I don’t know enough of Zelensky’s past, if Graham is going to do the “Zelensky is the new Churchill”, Churchill wasn’t all that well thought of at the time by a number of people “of Power” either. Let me throw in someone that, at the time, was called a drunkard, a reprobate, and a monster – yet, he was also one of, if not the best, of Lincoln’s generals during the civil war. That doesn’t change his past and the same holds for Zelensky’s.
I just have to chuckle – “fringe Right“? Really, Graham? Stooping to use the language of the Leftist Democrats thrown like a Progressive? Fringe, extremist, Free Stater – all are epithets in terms of the Left used against anyone violating their rules, their principles, and throwing shade on their Narrative. Nice to see you’re all in.
Throwing in with them, Mr. Micheal? That’s what the GOPe did during the TEA Party movement that sought only to have a Free Marketplace (left alone by an overbearing ton of laws and regulations), Government living within OUR means (e.g., stop the spending), and follow the Constitution. Heck, I’VE been called an extremist just for believing in what our Founding Fathers set for their vision for this country.
Et Tu, Brutus Graham?
For Leavitt, who declined to criticize Cawthorn’s comments, this incident may reveal the limits of a GOP primary campaign targeting the most extreme members of her party.
“Remember that Zelenskyy is a thug,” Cawthorn said last Saturday in a video obtained by a local TV station. “Remember that the Ukrainian government is incredibly corrupt and is incredibly evil and has been pushing woke ideologies.”
I guess Graham forgot ALL about this as far as Ukrainian Government corruption is concerned – and Biden was right in the thick of it.
I’m not going to go through all of this Never-Trumper’s post but I will point this out: Karoline Leavitt sent a rebuttal to Graham – he ignored it. I won’t:
Why is Matt Mowers laying out the red carpet in New Hampshire for anti-Trump 2024 candidates Nikki Haley and Chris Christie as they return to the Granite State in the coming weeks? Why is his entire campaign funded by Chris Christie and his New Jersey cronies, who hate President Trump and believe Joe Biden fairly won the election? Matt Mowers owes the America First movement and voters in New Hampshire answers.”
Mr. Graham has treated Mowers with kid gloves (full disclosure – Matt now lives in my town. Not that it will make a difference in what I write but I figured I’d point that out). Again, I don’t have a dog in this fight – yet. But he may push me a whole lot faster than not.
And remember, he did a hit interview on Bill O’Brien just before Bill’s “announcement event” at the start of his run for US Senate. Given that I was there early, I had already set up cameras and I decided just to start rolling – and picked up every word. So doing this isn’t his first “hit parade rodeo”.
But two can play this game.