THERE'S a little joke, a throwaway line, really, that South Carolina senator Lindsey Graham often uses when he addresses audiences in his home state. "We change senators every 50 years," Graham says. "Thanks for the job."
Audiences usually smile at the allusion to Graham's long-serving predecessors in the Senate, Strom Thurmond and Ernest Hollings. But these days, among some conservative activists in the South Carolina Republican party, Graham's joke is wearing a little thin. We ...