Then there was the conservatives’ support for Strom Thurmond, who ran on an Apartheid platform for president in 1948, blaming all America’s problems on social mixing of the races (while concealing that he had fathered a child on his black maid). What was Lindsey Graham’s view of Strom Thurmond, for most of his life an avowed racist? “People want to freeze him in time, they want to freeze him in the 1940s,” said Republican Rep. Lindsey Graham, who will succeed Thurmond in the Senate." (- AP, December 6, 2002) Then Lindsey Graham ragged on Sotomayor as having a ‘temperament problem’ and going off on people. Let’s just remember that journalists were taken aback by Graham’s rage during a ‘Meet the Press’ episode, with AP writing, “An impromptu troop surge debate turned into a temper surge.” “Just wash your hands of Iraq,” an animated Graham said to the war critics, including the Democrat seated to his immediate right. “History will judge us, my friend.” “It’s been a hard month, Lindsey,” Webb commiserated, wearing a tight smile. “You need to calm down, my friend.” “Lindsey’s had a hard month,” Webb repeated. “It ain’t about Lindsey having a hard month,” Graham snapped.’ (- AP, July 15, 2007