"Other than the 4th Amendment what indispensible American liberties would he sacrifice?"

It’s unlikely that South Carolina won’t end up reelecting Lindsey Graham. But it could be a very interesting race and one that Ravenel seems willing to wage just to make Graham’s life miserable. And he has a specific reason, according to this letter to the editor from last February:

Shortly after the federal government’s domestic spy network was exposed last spring, U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham went on national television to say he was “glad” the National Security Agency was monitoring, collecting and storing our personal information.

“I’m a Verizon customer,” Graham said. “I don’t mind Verizon turning over records to the government if the government is going to make sure that they try to match up a known terrorist phone with somebody in the United States. I don’t think you’re talking to the terrorists. I know you’re not. I know I’m not.”

I’m curious: Other than the Fourth Amendment (which Graham is explicitly rejecting), what indispensible American liberties would he sacrifice?

That’s an unusual comment coming from a South Carolina Republican. But then Ravenel is not a Republican. As he says, “having gone to prison, I was emancipated from the Republican Party.” Isn’t there an old saying that a conservative is a liberal who’s been mugged and a liberal is a conservative who’s been arrested? It’s hard to think of a better reason to put some Republican crooks in jail than that.