Lindsey Graham Ignores Debate Question To Recount His Lonely Life
[There was a video here]
The undercard to tonight’s GOP debate was a roundly depressing affair, as the seven runners-up wheezed hot, foul air into an empty basketball arena in Cleveland. But no moment was quite as sad, nor more human, than when Lindsey Graham took a moment to reflect on his lonely life.
In response to a question about how he would inspire the electorate, Graham began with a typically canned response about doing “whatever it takes to defend our nation.” But then, for some reason, he slipped into a garbled defense of Social Security and Medicare that took the form of a story about his famously solitary life.
When I was 21 my mom died, when I was 22 my dad died. We owned a liquor store, restaurant, bar—we lived in the back. Every penny we got from Social Security, ‘cause my sister was a minor, we needed. Today I’m 60, I’m not married, I don’t have any kids. I would give up some Social Security to save a system that Americans are going to depend on now and in the future.
If you believe in the meaning of Google searches (should you?), it might have been the best thing he did all day. But it mostly made me happy that Lindsey Graham will very soon have something better to do with his life than pretending to have a chance at ever becoming president.
