Conservatives are finally finding out Lindsey Graham was right about Putin
Lindsey Graham when he was a newly elected congressman in the Gingrich Revolution of 1994, conservatives knew this man from South Carolina was one of a kind. There was no doubt he was a Reaganite on foreign policy and had America’s enemies in his sights. From the get-go, his national security judgment and acumen were spot on.
- ▪Lindsey Graham when he was a newly elected congressman in the Gingrich Revolution of 1994, conservatives knew this man from South Carolina was one of a kind.
- ▪There was no doubt he was a Reaganite on foreign policy and had America’s enemies in his sights.
- ▪From the get-go, his national security judgment and acumen were spot on.
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Having first met the late Sen. Lindsey Graham when he was a newly elected congressman in the Gingrich Revolution of 1994, conservatives knew this man from South Carolina was one of a kind. There was no doubt he was a Reaganite on foreign policy and had America’s enemies in his sights. From the get-go, his national security judgment and acumen were spot on. Graham’s belief in American leadership in the world was grounded in a conservative and hard-nosed view that disengagement invites danger and that American leadership abroad is a direct investment in security at home. Within the Republican Party, his position often set the terms of the debate.
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