IMMIGRATION ISSUE FRONT AND CENTER IN U.S. SENATE RACE
Independent conservative U.S. Senate candidate Thomas Ravenel has launched a new radio advertisement blasting incumbent “Republican” Lindsey Graham on the issue of immigration.
The thirty-second spot – which is running statewide – highlights Graham’s 2007 assertion that those who opposed his support for amnesty were “bigots.”
“We’re gonna tell the bigots to shut up,” Graham said during his speech to La Raza, a Hispanic political advocacy group.
“Anyone who shows such disrespect for the people of South Carolina doesn’t deserve your vote,” Ravenel says in the spot, later adding “we shouldn’t have to put up with Lindsey Graham’s insults anymore.”
On his website, Ravenel says America’s flawed immigration system “causes the very problems we decry” and that Washington politicians have been approaching the issue “reflexively.”
“I oppose illegal immigration, amnesty for illegals, welfare benefits for illegals, the inconsistent enforcement of existing law as well as the adoption of failed policies that incentivize border-hopping,” Ravenel said. “I also oppose America’s failed ‘War on Drugs’ – which is inducing violence in Mexico and Central America and causing a flood of unaccompanied minors into our country.”
Ravenel says he supports former U.S. Sen. Jim DeMint‘s view that legal immigration avenues – including a “robust worker visa program” – are the best way to address the issue from an economic and national security standpoint.
“When you’re looking for the bad guys, you’re looking for needles in a haystack,” Ravenel said. “Having over 11 million undocumented workers creates millions of forged documents, which provide cover for the bad guys.”
Ravenel, Graham, Democratic nominee Brad Hutto and Libertarian nominee Victor Kocher will face voters on November 4.
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45 comments
Didn’t Ravenel, at one time, say he wanted to renounce his status as a US citizen?….
Not sure this is an issue Ravenel has any chance to score on…sorry…
Lindsey “says” he’s a Republican and that’s all you need to know. Just push that straight party “R” button and all will be well. It’s not like any of them are crooks or have the same or lower level of regard for American citizens and taxpayers as Obama and company do.
Any other time, I may be able to play games. But we MUST overpower Obama w/ the House AND the Senate. Obamacare is breaking my household, there are no jobs, and you drop $100 picking up a couple days groceries….NOTHING NOTHING NOTHING…MATTERS but slapping the living S#!* out of Obama, and turning back some of the Horrific polices that anti-American Some Beech has imposed on us.
Graham votes R, and for the country 90%…Ravenel gives us Hutto, who will have his head head so far up the monster-Obama’s @$$…they’ll look like the man w/ two heads…
Play around when you can afford to…but if you’re playing around now, it’s extremely ill-advised…you are either on the side of right, need your @$$ kicked. And voting any way that gives us a D…is WRONG!!!!!
I don’t know about that 90% figure. Liberal Supreme Court justices, Lindsey goes with Obama.
Amnesty and freebies for illegals, Lindsey’s for it.
Give more of OUR money to third-world dictators who at best are vague in their intentions towards us so they will like us, Lindsey’s the man.
For Cap and Trade, look no further than Lindsey.
Wanna start WWIII, Lindsey’s on it already.
Sorry, I’ll take my chances with Ravenel.
Ravenel has notchance. He’s running to put Hutto in.
On the SCOTUS, you should not have elected Obama if you did not want liberal activist judges. And Amnesty will never fly because Congress will block it. Graham cannot stop Obama from an executive Order.
Cap and tax: you’ll have to show me where Graham supports that.
The rest of the stuff is a foreign policy argument between Obama-RonPaul-clueless LiberalTarians and people who actually have some sort of an idea.
You, using FITS’ ideology, have already F*#ked up foreign policy about as much as it can be F*#ked up. Leave it to you, and ISIS will be proclaiming Sharia from the White House, while you Liberal-Tarians are praising them as a peaceful religion, and your blood brothers in love- just before they lop your head off…(after they pull it out your @$$)…..
I am a libertarian and I support annihilating every last Muslim in the Middle East as well as blocking ANY further Muslim immigration to these shores from anywhere in the world. What I do not support is the idiotic idea of spending billions of dollars of treasure and countless lives in the quixotic attempt to “nation build” bloodthirsty savage satanic animals a la Georgie Peorgie.
Vote for a Liberal-Tarian (other than Graham) and you elect a Democrat. Then ALL you do is enhance the chance you get to see your wives and daughters raped by animal-like Jihadists, while you are forced to watch, just before you are beheaded..
You are trying to dance on the head of a pin, and if you fall, liberals will finish giving this country over to people who hate to make Satin blush, in their harshness. You want to get some small specific nuance of control, or you threaten to doom all of us, to an evil you are too naive and selfish to ever understand.
You better become a true AMERICAN real quick, and put your childish and petty little political ignorance behind you. Or there will be nothing to fight for.
“Obamacare is breaking my household.”
Bull shit. Prove it.
I don’t have to prove anything to your STUPID @$$. Just GTF out my face, before I take you out. Job ONE is to do anything I can to EXPOSE you and your god-Obama for the TOTAL disaster he is.
De-electing Democrats is ALL THAT MATTERS. Then next we’ll have to ride the Republicans, to make sure they do the will of the people, and Bury you dangerous piecs of $#!* – along with your media idiots – that have infiltrated our government, and robbed us blind…
“I don’t have to prove anything to your STUPID @$$. Just GTF out my face, before I take you out.”
LMAO!
You PROVED you will run the nation into the ground if Obama was given absolute power.
MOSTEST IMPORTANT ELECTION EVAR!!!”
Amirite?
Until 2016 when we complete the Tri-Fecta and have the numbers to totally unloosen the chains and cure the disease the Democrats have infected this country with…
Dream on…
…when we complete the Tri-Fecta …
*Dick Vitale voice*
Tango…You’re a PTP, Baybee!!!
Miss Lindsey should withdraw and let Ravenel lead the Republicans.
He absolutely did, but reneged on his commitment and failed to follow through! I think this makes him quite the expert on citizenship and immigration issues. Emigration, too, I guess (technically speaking).
He’s an expert on illegal too, is he not? (-:
Most countries would not allow a convicted drug dealer to immigrate. Maybe that is why we are stuck with him..
If it wasn’t for the Damn Yankees, we could sell him South. Preferably to Venezuela.
I am a Virginian first and an American second. Perhaps Mr. Ravenel has a similar viewpoint about South Carolina. You mindless USA!!!USA!!! morons make me laugh. Any country that could put Obama in office twice is beyond hope. The “USA” is filled with the sort of scum who live in California, Massachusetts and the DC suburbs. It cannot be salvaged. The South’s only hope is to leave before we are overwhelmed with foreigners.
A vote for Ravenel is a vote for Obama. It’s stupidity on the level of yours that has given us America-hating b@$*@rds ruining this country. And that Stupid State of Va. that just let a Dumb@$$ liberal-tarian put a dangerous Democrat in the governor’s office, so he can break you, even more.
Ravenel needs to be clear about what happens to the 11 million illegals who are already here. he says no amnesty for illegals or welfare benefits for illegals. Does he want deportation? If he does, he should state it clearly and how to carry it out.
Well Ravenel has a new baby and I’m sure when night falls and said baby starts emitting the worst sounds you will ever hear and they never seem to stop he is thinking about deportation.
Now, THAT’S a picture that could be used to send that twerp back to Seneca…but, Democrats are stupid campaigners and Lindsey will die on the taxpayer dole at Walter Reed’s nursing home like that other SC maggot on the people Strom Thurmond.
T-Rav, T-Rav, T-Rav. The man of honor, but still, Lindsey is a better dresser.
Of course as a convicted felon he is against the war on drugs.
TR’s RADIO ad “blasts” LG? Me thinkest not. Radio ads are super cheap and OK if they support the TV campaign to fill in niche markets for a campaign, but they suck pretty hard if they’re all you’ve got. Let’s see if moneybags TR really digs into his dwindling millions to buy the TV time that it will take to move from 5% nuisance candidate to 10% little-bit-bigger-nuisance candidate. I still bet he doesn’t much of the high-dollar stuff.
“Ah also O-pose Uh-MER-a-cuz failed Waa on drugs!!” T-Rav shouts……Would that be the one that caught his sorry ass?
What the hell business is it of the damn government what I or anyone else use in my own GD home? Your sort and the Commiecrats are all alike. You hate liberty and love tyranny. I am the direct descendant of more than twenty Rev. War soldiers and they fought for liberty not the busybody, property seizing, war mongering, politically correct mess we have now. This US is a joke and all the current immigration just shows it up for the disunited Balkanized mess it has always been. How are these South Americans any less objectionable than the Leftist Ellis Island crap of 100 years ago?
Pass the coke.
Give me back my $10 bill.
“”Our immigration system causes the very problems we decry.”” — US Senator Thomas Ravenel.
Amen, Senator. Amen!
“I oppose illegal immigration, amnesty for illegals, welfare benefits for illegals, the inconsistent enforcement of existing law as well as the adoption of failed policies that incentivize border-hopping.” —– US Senator Thomas Ravenel
“Blasts”?!? Hardly, that may be the worst radio ad I’ve heard in a long time. Maybe it’s the “cram it all in in ten seconds to save some money” pacing or just the less than half truth of the message – nah, I’m pretty sure it’s the fact that it was delivered by a convicted drug dealer, FEC rule violating, philandering “baby daddy”, drunk driving “reality star”. I’m The Colonel and I approved this message.
The Mexicans are here to stay…forever as US citizens. Ohio white voters are now a 48% minority. See Bush I,II for not sealing the border under the 1986 Immigration Reform And Control Act. Better learn how to translate, “Hola , es un gran día en Carolina del Sur” ’cause this is our future.
“Ohio white voters are now a 48% minority.”
Bringing some chroma to the bland Corn Belt.
Hello, it’s a great day in South Carolina. Two years of Spanish in public schools.
Not after the bloody civil war
You’ll know Graham takes TR seriously if and when he starts burying his ass in ads featuring the citizenship denouncement. Until then, Graham ain’t losing sleep.
Conversely, you’ll know if TR thinks he’s a serious candidate when the campaign finance filings show he’s actually spent any money; his own.
Don’t hold your breath for either.
Why can’t these Graham supporters answer these simple questions: ‘What Has Graham Done To Help South Carolinians’? … What Has Graham Done To Make South Carolina A Better Place To Live”? … ‘What Has Graham Done To Create Jobs In South Carolina’? ….. Hellooooooooooooooooooooooooo? Anyone have the balls to answer, or are you Graham Nitzoids a bunch of cowards like your boy obviously is? Why the pussy ass wont even come out to debate. Guess he thinks he can wait till 2 or 3 weeks before November 4th? Nope …. the longer he drags it out, the worst he looks.
Yep …. your boy has no life. He has no hobbies (except playing with himself), and he stays shut inside and doesn’t even really live in South Carolina.
That picture says a lot about Grahgamnasty. His utter disdain for the people of SC. “All you stupid scum,just shut up and vote for me.” I’ll do the the thinking. This calls for an attitude adjustment in Nov. T Rav is just the guy to give it to him.
Updated Pictures shown of Graham last week, he looks really really old. This one above must be like from 8 to 10 years ago. Lindsey calling voters “bigots” because they do not agree with his lawless illegal alien methods takes the cake. The illegal alien invasion has taken this country down. Its not a “broken” immigration system. Its a failure to obey and enforce the immigration laws on the books that work, if they would honor them. But noooooooooooooooo … Graham doesn’t like it that the vast majority of Americans see him for what he really is. And that is “f–ked up in the head.”
Lets hook Graham up with Jenny Sanford, and see what happens.
Graham voted to confirm Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court. During Kagan’s confirmation hearing, she was unable to answer whether a law requiring Americans to eat vegetables was constitutional. Both Kagan and Sotomayor joined the 5-4 majority opinion to uphold the “constitutionality” of the individual mandate in ObamaCare.