12/24/2002
Graham for president?
Everyone runs with Sen. Graham making the first steps toward a presidential bid as well as the possible repercussions. On the surface, He's just what the party ordered -- credible on security, conservative on spending, liberal on social issues. He's also one of the few people I've met in public life who has actually has a personality that hasn't been manufactured for him. He has interests outside of politics, reads fiction, is intellectually curious, hangs with Jimmy Buffett, sings loud, badly and zestfully in public. He's genuinely eccentric. Then there's the deal about the little notebooks. And after being subjected to the ritual humiliation of an unsuccessful VP vetting by political geniuses Michael Dukakis and Al Gore, Graham is not in awe of the party's previous nominees.
