During an appearance on “Morning Joe” Monday, Sen. Lindsey Graham said that he “didn’t dislike Hillary Clinton,” but that she would be the “third term of Barack Obama.”
Responding to Mark Halperin’s question as to how Republicans can trust him to challenge her in 2016 if they’re “close friends,” Graham said that disqualifies Jeb Bush. The South Carolina senator referred to Bush as Bill Clinton’s “illegitimate brother.”
MARK HALPERIN: The party is shopping for somebody who can beat Hillary Clinton. You and Hillary Clinton, I believe it’s fair to say, are close personal friends. How can the party trust you to ferociously take her on and make you their nominee if you’re close friends with her?
SEN. LINDSEY GRAHAM: Well, that would disqualify Jeb because apparently Bill is like his illegitimate brother. At the end of the day —
JOE SCARBOROUGH: By the way, you just made news, thank you, keep going.
GRAHAM: The bottom line is there used to be a day in American politics where you could like people and say you’re going to take the country one way, and I’m going to take it another way. You’re not a bad person; I just disagree with you. I don’t dislike Hillary Clinton. I think she’s the third term of Barack Obama. I think she’s the architect of failed foreign policy. Her and Bill did a better job of selling Obamacare than he did. So to me if we can get a qualified nominee, she loses because she represents a failed presidency.