Posted under Election 2008 & Immigration & Politics & The South
Conservatism Incarnate Besieges Open-Borders Citadel
Dr. Walter “Buddy†Witherspoon is challenging scalawag Senator Lindsey Graham’s seat in the 2008 GOP primary. Witherspoon was elected South Carolina’s committeeman in 1996 and has long been active in South Carolina politics. Though unknown among most voters, he is well connected within South Carolina and is considered the lead challenger to the unpopular incumbent Senator Graham.
The Shot says of Witherspoon: “If he were elected, he would be the farthest right member of the South Carolina delegation and possibly the entire U.S. Senate.” Judging by Witherspoon’s immigration platform, that isn’t difficult to believe:
Open borders … weaken our common culture and national identity. … We should welcome legal immigrants, but there are billions of people in the world who would like to come to this country and we cannot accept them all. Accordingly, our policy must be based on what is in the interest of American citizens.
Add to that Witherspoon’s pro-life, pro-second amendment, anti-spending, and pro-values stances as well as his claim of being “a strict constructionist,” and you’ve got a man who’d make Jim DeMint, South Carolina’s conservative Senator, blush.
Indeed DeMint, who will serve as the Co-Chairman of Graham’s campaign, has already come out in support of Graham as has every other South Carolina Republican elected official serving in Washington. Governor Mark Sanford has also joined the list and Graham’s Campaign Office writes that:
Additionally, 1st District Representative Henry Brown, 2nd District Representative Joe Wilson, 3rd District Representative Gresham Barrett and 4th District Representative Bob Inglis have endorsed Senator Graham and will serve as Vice-Chairmen of the campaign.
Buttressing this dark fortress is over $4 million in the bank with The Greenville News claiming, “analysts have estimated that he can raise $8 million to $10 million for primary and general election campaigns.”
Cracks in the Stone: Election Up for Grabs
Nevertheless, the election is uncertain due to Graham’s extraordinary unpopularity among South Carolina voters. His approval ratings have been polled in the low 30s among both Republican and Democratic voters, a whole mess of anti-Graham websites have formed, and just recently the Greenville County Republican Party called for Graham’s censure. Voters are upset with the RINO because he:
- Has earned a solid F from NumbersUSA.
- Co-wrote the failed Amnesty Bill of 2007 and dismissed its critics as “racists.“
- Notoriously called Americans opposed to this amnesty “bigots” who need to “shut up.” Graham said this in front of a Latino racialist organisation called La Raza (English translation: “the race.”) La Raza funds MEChA, a Latino student movement that calls for Reconquista (the “reconquest” of large parts of the American West and Southwest by Central Amerindians.)
- Joined the “Gang of 14.”
- Called Ted Kennedy, “One of the most principled men I’ve ever met.”
- Has said of himself, “Republican by day, Democrat by night.”
- Co-sponsored a Senate bill apologising to the victims of lynching and their descendants for the Senate’s failure to enact anti-lynching legislation from 1882 until 1968. DumpLindsey.org asks: “Are reparations next?”
Graham is well aware of his unpopularity among South Carolinians and has tested their memory with a flip-flop this year, co-authoring an amendment (which passed 95-1, only to be removed a month later), to the Department of Homeland Security spending bill provided $3 billion in emergency spending for immigration and border enforcement. However, South Carolinian elephants won’t forget!
Peasant Revolt: Patriots Stand Up
The Shot reports that Marcus Epstein co-hosted a fund-raising event for Witherspoon in Washington on the 15th. The Greenville News says Katon Dawson, GOP chairman, “said he didn’t know how much was taken in, ‘but it was enough to excite Buddy.’” Dawson is also quoted as saying, “I’ve talked to some people who wrote $2,000 checks.” Witherspoon must have done well because he officially entered the race yesterday, the 20th, only a few days after the fund-raiser.
Filmer on 21 Nov 2007 at 3:14 pm #
Go Buddy Go!
Graham is a disgrace, and it is a disgrace that all the Republican elected officials are supporting him.
Doc Holliday on 21 Nov 2007 at 3:17 pm #
Opposition research is the key. “Confirmed bachelor” Lindsey is rumored to have a few skeletons in his “closet” if you know what I mean.
Filmer on 21 Nov 2007 at 3:40 pm #
Where does Buddy stand on the War and foreign policy?
Weaver on 21 Nov 2007 at 4:01 pm #
I had trouble integrating this quote by Senator Grahamnesty into the article:
That’s either ideological nationalism or cosmopolitan nationalism (his position is fuzzy.) Both are stark contrasts to Buddy’s sense of cultural nationalism as reflected in his immigration plank above.
Doc,
I do need to look into that.
Filmer,
I want to say he favours passing control of Iraq over to the Iraqis.
Filmer on 21 Nov 2007 at 4:26 pm #
America is not an idea! That is liberal proposition nation idiocy!
Is Japan an “idea?” Is Romania?
I know, I know. America is “different.” We are “special.” We are “exceptional.” Do these clowns not realize how suicidally liberal that is?
Jim West on 21 Nov 2007 at 6:06 pm #
Nice to see a candidate bring up the problem of legal immigration.
http://buddywitherspoon.com/issues/immigration/
Weaver on 21 Nov 2007 at 6:17 pm #
Thanks for pointing that out. I should have added that, and so I just did
roho on 21 Nov 2007 at 6:20 pm #
America is not an idea!……………..Utopia is an idea, but America is a geographical land mass that belongs ONLY to it’s citizens and their established culture………I will be sending my donations to “Buddy” by way of the Alabama Postal System!
Weaver on 23 Nov 2007 at 5:32 pm #
Weaver on 23 Nov 2007 at 5:35 pm #
One of those is about a 10 minute drive from my house. So, I’ll be sure to attend.
Bede on 23 Nov 2007 at 11:04 pm #
A victory for Buddy Witherspoon would be fantastic!
Patroon on 28 Nov 2007 at 4:46 pm #
Now here’s something the South Carolina chapter of the League of the South could get involved with and provide the grassroots structure for Witherspoon’s camapaign. What a feather in their cap it would be to have played a major role in the campaign that took down Sen. Graham.
Turner on 01 Dec 2007 at 4:02 pm #
I would like to publicly thank Dr. Witherspoon for his candidacy for the U.S. Senate. Lindsey “Shamnesty” Graham will attempt to paint Dr. Witherspoon as a racist. The fact is that Graham called all of us who support the enforcement of our borders “bigots” and said we should just “shut up” in a well publicized speech before “La Raza” last year. I will never support this “shamnesty advocate” for anything ever again. Furthermore I’m going to attempt to help the Witherspoon campaign as much as my time permits. Thanks Again, Dr. Witherspoon!
Ron Turner
Summerville, SC
Weaver on 01 Dec 2007 at 11:09 pm #
Hmm, apparently Epstein didn’t host the event and The Shot was wrong…
Take a look at this: GOP could be in ‘bigotry’ trouble with Witherspoon candidacy In there Epstein denies having been the host of the fund raiser.
CofCC points out it is run by a Graham staffer.