Adam, you passed through the fire and you’ve proven to be the kind of man who’d do right by our country. You’re intelligent, brave, and you have a good soul. Please consider running for president when you’re comfortable doing so. You could renew our nation.
Please keep being yourself, Adam. Expressing yourself so clearly, over and over, keeps reminding us of our inner selves before we became hardened by all of the letdowns and disappointments in recent years. Please keep that alive for all of us!
I once admired Lindsay Graham, too, yet in his performance most of his last 10 years, I saw that he had needed John McCain to keep him true to himself. Once John was gone, Lindsay lost his direction.
I think you would be a great President, but you are too honest. You have great insight to people, politics, and yourself and you can be vulnerable. That makes you a fantastic person, who may not be appreciated by the Political Class.
As an afterthought, if Americans could handle Trump's BS, it might be ready to hear the Truth for a change. I am praying for you that God will use you to help our country. Keep the faith.
From what I understand, the two parties have set up a system that makes it nearly impossible for a third party to succeed. Maybe I'm wrong. I hope I'm wrong.
The right won't primary anybody with ethics or morality.
The left is chasing the dream of socialism, the same system that has failed throughout history.
Nothing changes in politics without money, a ton of money, and even then, things aren't working.
You probably won't read this, Adam, but in case you do... I have a different perspective. I think you can be much freer and more effective outside of mounting a major political campaign. We need you more on the outside, imho!
I have repeatedly asked what happened to Lindsay Graham. My impression was always that he was reasonable and ethical. Not that I agreed with everything, but then, who agrees on everything? The past 2-3 years he seemed like a different person in the interviews and news clips I saw. I continue to be astounded at the number of Republicans who adopted Trumpism. After nearly half century of considering myself a Republican, as soon as Trump gained traction. I was out!
Thank you for not making your comment political. I have read some truly vile remarks about Lindsay Graham’s passing. I’ve asked myself what comments they would like to have reach their children and spouses after their own deaths. Thanks again for treating Mr. Graham’s death with dignity.
Somewhere, Lindsey is nodding agreement at your assessment. My personal take is that when Lindsey's dear friend John McCain died, he seemed to come unmoored. McCain was an honest man about his own human foibles, marched forward from them always trying to do better, and when he died I saw Lindsey Graham fall apart in tears in an interview and have to leave. I couldn't understand him taking up with Trump, a man who viciously, time and again, demeaned McCain.
I don't know what that implies. Trump is about as far from an Alpha male as you could get, a big fat golfer who has never done an honest days work in his life. anyway the whole alpha male thing has been discredited except among Proud Boy types who are unsure about their own manhood or Pete Hegseth
Adam, of all the Alpha men Lindsey could have chosen to glom himself onto....If you can go from John McCain to Donald Trump in a heartbeat, that says something about your inability to recognize a leader from a scumbag. And he used to recognize that. Or at least pretend he did. Enough said. Graham was a broken, ridiculous man whose moral compass spun like a weather vane. He did stand up for Ukraine, and I will say that for him -- I don't know why he did, considering how much Trump tried to stop that from happening.
May his soul find rest. Most of us won't mourn his departure from our political life, however.
I’m sorry, Adam. I agree with you 99% of the time, but not this time. Lindsay Graham was a weak man with a weak character. He and the other sycophants like him are helping Trump drive this country off a cliff. I will save my sympathy for all the others who have died needlessly under this administration and not for those who abetted their killing.
Adam spoke genuinely about a person he KNEW not the one the person became. Adam respectfully stated the changed person he no longer respects but of the one the person was. Both can be true. Adam spoke two truths from his personal experience with a man who sold his soul to maga.
Trump and his family have debased and corrupted our government in their public goal of wiring it to their benefit.
We could rank each Senator and Representative on the "Trump bought" spectrum, from MAGA Trump Family spokespersons to the light weight "go along to get along" GOP members. On the surface, Lindsey would rank near the top of the Pro-Trump list. Down deep he was a better human and scared. Intimidated to his core by the alpha bully.
Trump's pathological modus is to threaten those who are vulnerable to that emotional violence. Like Lindsey was, it appears. Others bend to his demands for loyalty to get the carrot (or the promise of the carrot). Go along with the con game and I let you keep your job, for as long as I decide. Make one slip and I will stab you in the back. And maybe I'll let you get in line for vig scraps when Ivanka, Eric and Don Jr (or Blanche or Bessent) line up the next money grab.
Lindsey recently observed "The Republican Party is now the Trump Party." He was just holding on to survive the best he could.
"His turn toward Trump was among the most disappointing, and honestly angering, things I witnessed from anyone I knew in that world. I watched someone I respected reshape himself, piece by piece, into something I didn’t recognize."
I don't understand why so many people didn't see this coming. Already under Obama, he spread the worst possible lies and vitriol, day after day (including about Obamacare).
I don't see how caring about some kids in Syria could somehow restore the idea that "before Trump, he was a man of character."
In the end, I do believe that deep down, we're all the same, and basically good people. But we can be good people and still develop a huge lack of character. In Graham's case, that development started way before anyone was even mentioning Trump. So that's on him...
We’ve somehow forgotten that people are not perfect. We can like people and still not condone all the things they do and say. I’m sure Graham could be kind sometimes, but it would be hard to trust someone who said the contradictory things he said about Trump.
I thought that was perfect, Adam. I share your mixed emotions regarding Senator Graham’s passing. Obviously I only know him as a citizen of the country and not personally like you did.
There is no question Graham failed the Trump test. That failure with Trump will be a significant portion of his legacy.
And yet I feel sad at his passing. I am sad for the departure of the Lindsey Graham that existed before the Trump era, that he succumb to his own human failings the last 10 years and that he will never have an opportunity at redemption after Trump leaves the stage.
“I … don’t think a person’s worst chapter has to be the only chapter you remember.”
People are complex. Very few are all villain or all angel. I found your memories of Graham very touching just like learning that his parents both died within 15 months of each other when he was in college, and he subsequently became guardian and then adoptive parent to his 13-year-old sister. Unfortunately, I don’t think there will be a nuanced view of him for most.
My humble opinion is this. Lindsey Graham is responsible for the legacy he created and history will be the judge of it. I predict it won’t be favorable. Of course, that presumes that the republic survives.
I can forgive LG for his personal faults, whatever they might be; I never met the man but I presume he was a human being with faults and virtues. But as a political figure I despise and detest him for everything he did, and everything he failed to do. He knew better — he had McCain as a friend and example! Presumably tRump has some good personal qualities too, though I have never seen one in evidence; so did Judas. But all three of them are betrayers and deserve no sorrow at their passing. Nor does Mitch McTurtle;
I respect and appreciate your comments with regard to Senator Graham. With that said, your compassion for the compassion he showed abroad, his support for Ukraine aside, I find the man's total conversion to what I might refer to as the dark side ( protecting is continued status as a senator; jeopardizing this country's continued experiment as a constitutional republic and so much more) so overshadows that sympathy you witnessed that I can only see him for what he had become. Ed Loeb
Clearly you knew him and we did not and I’m sorry for how his loss affected you and his family. Absolutely two things can be true at once, but unfortunately, what most people remember him for is the damage that he did. What that person said though about you running for president was absolutely spot on because you clearly have a good heart and you’re able to see past the ugliness in people and that is a very rare trait. This clearly just proves the point that everything Trump touches or associates with is destroyed broken or tainted.
Might I add that as cliché as it sounds a stopped clock is right twice a day. And really how good was his character if he could so easily be corrupted? That’s what bothers me. I was raised to stand on your convictions and do what’s right no matter how hard it is and you know what most of the time doing what’s right is very hard being wrong is a lot easier.
Thank you, Adam! I admire your comments about Lindsey! I'm apparently no longer friends with a former classmate and best friend that I would have gone to war with. He posted some BS that wasn't true, and I questioned him about it, and his reply was " I know". I'm still friends with three of his sisters, but we're no longer friends. Thank you for what you do, and I've mentioned it before, but you would make a fabulous president! I've mentioned it on here, but PLEASE CONSIDER running, before our country goes further down the drain leaving our kids and grandchildren in the sewer?
Thank you Adam. Won’t you please consider running for president? You are exactly who and what we need.❤️
Thank you for saying this
ditto to all that have said this.. my husband and I would both support you!!
Adam, I agree. You should run for president.
I don't think of you as 'Republican'. I think of you as someone I respect in politics. I value everything I hear about you and from you.
You truly want the best for our country. God bless you and your family.
I dont think of me as that either anymore!
I wholeheartedly agree with this statement.
thank you Mloowho
Adam, you passed through the fire and you’ve proven to be the kind of man who’d do right by our country. You’re intelligent, brave, and you have a good soul. Please consider running for president when you’re comfortable doing so. You could renew our nation.
Thank you so much for saying that
Hear Hear
I so very much agree!!!!!!
Please keep being yourself, Adam. Expressing yourself so clearly, over and over, keeps reminding us of our inner selves before we became hardened by all of the letdowns and disappointments in recent years. Please keep that alive for all of us!
I once admired Lindsay Graham, too, yet in his performance most of his last 10 years, I saw that he had needed John McCain to keep him true to himself. Once John was gone, Lindsay lost his direction.
I will try to remember both Lindsays.
If only you were our president. I have a dream....
I think you would be a great President, but you are too honest. You have great insight to people, politics, and yourself and you can be vulnerable. That makes you a fantastic person, who may not be appreciated by the Political Class.
You maybe right...but this country needs a bit of soul back, whether thats me or someone else
As an afterthought, if Americans could handle Trump's BS, it might be ready to hear the Truth for a change. I am praying for you that God will use you to help our country. Keep the faith.
Being too honest is something that's been sorely lacking lately, and people ought to respond well to it when it reappears, as we have.
How on earth can we get him elected?
From what I understand, the two parties have set up a system that makes it nearly impossible for a third party to succeed. Maybe I'm wrong. I hope I'm wrong.
The right won't primary anybody with ethics or morality.
The left is chasing the dream of socialism, the same system that has failed throughout history.
Nothing changes in politics without money, a ton of money, and even then, things aren't working.
It's almost as if we need a reset.
They have a monopoly on power, or a duopoly
I couldn't agree more!!!
You probably won't read this, Adam, but in case you do... I have a different perspective. I think you can be much freer and more effective outside of mounting a major political campaign. We need you more on the outside, imho!
Good eulogy, thank you.
Thanks:)
I have repeatedly asked what happened to Lindsay Graham. My impression was always that he was reasonable and ethical. Not that I agreed with everything, but then, who agrees on everything? The past 2-3 years he seemed like a different person in the interviews and news clips I saw. I continue to be astounded at the number of Republicans who adopted Trumpism. After nearly half century of considering myself a Republican, as soon as Trump gained traction. I was out!
Thank you for not making your comment political. I have read some truly vile remarks about Lindsay Graham’s passing. I’ve asked myself what comments they would like to have reach their children and spouses after their own deaths. Thanks again for treating Mr. Graham’s death with dignity.
Thank you. yes, just one day is all I ask!
ya. you made the moral decision. HE did not
Somewhere, Lindsey is nodding agreement at your assessment. My personal take is that when Lindsey's dear friend John McCain died, he seemed to come unmoored. McCain was an honest man about his own human foibles, marched forward from them always trying to do better, and when he died I saw Lindsey Graham fall apart in tears in an interview and have to leave. I couldn't understand him taking up with Trump, a man who viciously, time and again, demeaned McCain.
He needed an alpha male i think. And when McCain left, that left trump
I don't know what that implies. Trump is about as far from an Alpha male as you could get, a big fat golfer who has never done an honest days work in his life. anyway the whole alpha male thing has been discredited except among Proud Boy types who are unsure about their own manhood or Pete Hegseth
YEP
I was thinking the same thing, Burton. dumpy is not an alpha male nor would I expect anyone with half a brain to think he is (or was).
Sorry. There weren't better choices?
Oh, there were
Adam, of all the Alpha men Lindsey could have chosen to glom himself onto....If you can go from John McCain to Donald Trump in a heartbeat, that says something about your inability to recognize a leader from a scumbag. And he used to recognize that. Or at least pretend he did. Enough said. Graham was a broken, ridiculous man whose moral compass spun like a weather vane. He did stand up for Ukraine, and I will say that for him -- I don't know why he did, considering how much Trump tried to stop that from happening.
May his soul find rest. Most of us won't mourn his departure from our political life, however.
It shows you never truly had a moral compass
This is an astute observation.
So true! Thank you for pointing that out.
I’m sorry, Adam. I agree with you 99% of the time, but not this time. Lindsay Graham was a weak man with a weak character. He and the other sycophants like him are helping Trump drive this country off a cliff. I will save my sympathy for all the others who have died needlessly under this administration and not for those who abetted their killing.
I agree gary, but he was still a person. And one I knew, and one who disappointed me. But still a human
Adam spoke genuinely about a person he KNEW not the one the person became. Adam respectfully stated the changed person he no longer respects but of the one the person was. Both can be true. Adam spoke two truths from his personal experience with a man who sold his soul to maga.
Trump and his family have debased and corrupted our government in their public goal of wiring it to their benefit.
We could rank each Senator and Representative on the "Trump bought" spectrum, from MAGA Trump Family spokespersons to the light weight "go along to get along" GOP members. On the surface, Lindsey would rank near the top of the Pro-Trump list. Down deep he was a better human and scared. Intimidated to his core by the alpha bully.
Trump's pathological modus is to threaten those who are vulnerable to that emotional violence. Like Lindsey was, it appears. Others bend to his demands for loyalty to get the carrot (or the promise of the carrot). Go along with the con game and I let you keep your job, for as long as I decide. Make one slip and I will stab you in the back. And maybe I'll let you get in line for vig scraps when Ivanka, Eric and Don Jr (or Blanche or Bessent) line up the next money grab.
Lindsey recently observed "The Republican Party is now the Trump Party." He was just holding on to survive the best he could.
Good observation. I agree totally. He was a follower, not a leader.
Trump is more an almost male than an alpha male. Bluster and worth often are diametrically opposed.
You’re probably right.
Yes, yes, I totally have fogotten this.
"His turn toward Trump was among the most disappointing, and honestly angering, things I witnessed from anyone I knew in that world. I watched someone I respected reshape himself, piece by piece, into something I didn’t recognize."
I don't understand why so many people didn't see this coming. Already under Obama, he spread the worst possible lies and vitriol, day after day (including about Obamacare).
I don't see how caring about some kids in Syria could somehow restore the idea that "before Trump, he was a man of character."
In the end, I do believe that deep down, we're all the same, and basically good people. But we can be good people and still develop a huge lack of character. In Graham's case, that development started way before anyone was even mentioning Trump. So that's on him...
Fair
We’ve somehow forgotten that people are not perfect. We can like people and still not condone all the things they do and say. I’m sure Graham could be kind sometimes, but it would be hard to trust someone who said the contradictory things he said about Trump.
Thank you Sir. You have integrity
Thank you. Thats the highest compliment
Indeed you do!!! We need that now!!
I thought that was perfect, Adam. I share your mixed emotions regarding Senator Graham’s passing. Obviously I only know him as a citizen of the country and not personally like you did.
There is no question Graham failed the Trump test. That failure with Trump will be a significant portion of his legacy.
And yet I feel sad at his passing. I am sad for the departure of the Lindsey Graham that existed before the Trump era, that he succumb to his own human failings the last 10 years and that he will never have an opportunity at redemption after Trump leaves the stage.
I can’t help but feel sad about it all.
We so desperately need someone like you in the White House. Please consider this.
“I … don’t think a person’s worst chapter has to be the only chapter you remember.”
People are complex. Very few are all villain or all angel. I found your memories of Graham very touching just like learning that his parents both died within 15 months of each other when he was in college, and he subsequently became guardian and then adoptive parent to his 13-year-old sister. Unfortunately, I don’t think there will be a nuanced view of him for most.
My humble opinion is this. Lindsey Graham is responsible for the legacy he created and history will be the judge of it. I predict it won’t be favorable. Of course, that presumes that the republic survives.
Ya I agree. He thought he had time to fix his legacy....he didnt
I can forgive LG for his personal faults, whatever they might be; I never met the man but I presume he was a human being with faults and virtues. But as a political figure I despise and detest him for everything he did, and everything he failed to do. He knew better — he had McCain as a friend and example! Presumably tRump has some good personal qualities too, though I have never seen one in evidence; so did Judas. But all three of them are betrayers and deserve no sorrow at their passing. Nor does Mitch McTurtle;
All of them betrayed their sacred trust.
I agree Adam.... thank you for your honesty. I appreciate you 🩵
I appreciate you too!
Thanks for being honest!
I respect and appreciate your comments with regard to Senator Graham. With that said, your compassion for the compassion he showed abroad, his support for Ukraine aside, I find the man's total conversion to what I might refer to as the dark side ( protecting is continued status as a senator; jeopardizing this country's continued experiment as a constitutional republic and so much more) so overshadows that sympathy you witnessed that I can only see him for what he had become. Ed Loeb
Took two oaths to support and defend the Constitution. Broke them. Actively supported a coup-instigating felon.
I understand that. for sure
Beautifully conveyed Adam.
Clearly you knew him and we did not and I’m sorry for how his loss affected you and his family. Absolutely two things can be true at once, but unfortunately, what most people remember him for is the damage that he did. What that person said though about you running for president was absolutely spot on because you clearly have a good heart and you’re able to see past the ugliness in people and that is a very rare trait. This clearly just proves the point that everything Trump touches or associates with is destroyed broken or tainted.
Might I add that as cliché as it sounds a stopped clock is right twice a day. And really how good was his character if he could so easily be corrupted? That’s what bothers me. I was raised to stand on your convictions and do what’s right no matter how hard it is and you know what most of the time doing what’s right is very hard being wrong is a lot easier.
Thank you, Adam! I admire your comments about Lindsey! I'm apparently no longer friends with a former classmate and best friend that I would have gone to war with. He posted some BS that wasn't true, and I questioned him about it, and his reply was " I know". I'm still friends with three of his sisters, but we're no longer friends. Thank you for what you do, and I've mentioned it before, but you would make a fabulous president! I've mentioned it on here, but PLEASE CONSIDER running, before our country goes further down the drain leaving our kids and grandchildren in the sewer?
Pray for me and that decision.
Sometime, you do have to cut off friends. Its ok to do that