GOP Senator: Tea Party Challenges 'Killed Off' Chances for Republican Majority in Senate

The Blaze ^ | December 25th | Madeleine Morgenstern

[Halfmanhalfamazing]

Sen. Dick Lugar said challenges by Tea Party candidates are partly to blame for the Republicans not having a majority in the Senate.

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“Republicans lost the seats before in Nevada and New Jersey for example and Colorado where there were people who claimed that they wanted somebody who was more of their Tea Party aspect, but in doing so they killed off the Republican chances for majority,” he said. “This is one of the reasons why we have a minority in the Senate right now.”

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[IamConservative]

Ole Dick himself is staring down the barrel of a Tea Party primary challenger. There was a first poll released recently that shows Lugar only drawing 49% support.

[Son House]

Yep, even the House Speaker Boehner, pass bill with Conservative Votes -then pass what comes back from Conference Committee with RINO and Minority Democrat votes.

[Psalm 73]

"We vote conservative!"

Lugar does not have a clue - it's not a Republican majority that we desire - it's a CONSERVATIVE majority.

[july4thfreedomfoundation]

As Jay Leno once said, “Dick Lugar is a good name for a porn star.”

[goat granny]

We would be better off with a minority of conservative senators than a majority of leftist senators that love to work with democrats...hope Lugar gets fired big time. I still cannot believe Arizona put McCain back in...it was a farce....

[Matchett-PI]

"When the republican candidate loses to the conservative in the primary, what does the establishment do? They go out and undermine the conservative in the general!!!"

bttt

Trent Lott [R] on Tea Party candidates: ‘As soon as they get here, we need to co-opt them’
12:27 pm July 19, 2010, by Jay

The money quote from a Washington Post piece on the Tea Party and Washington’s GOP establishment:

Former Senate majority leader Trent Lott (R-Miss.), now a D.C. lobbyist, warned that a robust bloc of rabble-rousers spells further Senate dysfunction. “We don’t need a lot of Jim DeMint disciples,” Lott said in an interview. “As soon as they get here, we need to co-opt them.”

But Lott said he’s not expecting a tea-party sweep. “I still have faith in the visceral judgment of the American people,” he said.

[GlockThe Vote]

The DC GOP RINOs are as bad as Obama and the left.

[Disambiguator]

The natural home of RINOs should be in the Democrat party so they could take control from the Marxists, socialists and Soros stooges which dominate there.

RINOs are leftist infiltrators, for the most part. That's why they are in the GOP.

I agree that if they were intellectually honest about their positions on the issues, they would be Democrats. Since they're not, they are kindred spirits to this guy:

[nomad]

What would those lock step votes have gotten us, more votes for legislation from so the called “Bastion of Conservatism” that strip away our protection under Posse Comittatus and declare war on the American people? What the hell is the difference between the DemocRATs and RepublicRATs now? Would the Republican rah, rah crowd, please feel free to explain that one, if you would (If you could?).

[null and void]

Worth repeating:

These GOP establishment types live in an alternate universe. When the [all powerful big government party toady] republican candidate loses to the conservative [Capital "R" Republican] in the primary, what does the establishment do? They go out and undermine the conservative in the general!!! They use the liberal media, they help the democrats, whatever it takes.

And that's why we can't have nice things, children...

[runninglips]

The US Senate is nothing more than a House of Lords. The direct election has caused this body to become much too powerful and insulated from the States they come from. Return them to control of each individual State, and watch as their power dwindles, and corruption wanes.

[nomad]

I still think he`s aptly named, a barking, phalocephalus with a loud muzzle.

[Personal Responsibility]

Republicans like Lugar are essentially Democrats. They love big government as long as they are in charge and have the power. He and his ilk are the reason people can’t tell the difference between the Dems and the Rep’s. There is absolutely no difference between Lugar and whichever Dem runs against him.

He’s peeved that the TEA party wants to actually shrink government and rob him of the power he’s “earned”.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

$10 bet that when Lugar is whipped, he won’t return home to Indiana.

[Georgia Girl 2]

I think Dick Lugar is ripe to get primaried.

[Grunthor]

No one is owed my vote. Especially RINO’s.

[Timber Rattler]

What a hypcorite...

Lugar makes pitch for support from tea party

And I guarantee that his disdain for the TEA Party movement is shared by every single one of the current Republican Senators, except Jim DeMint and Rand Paul.

[Timber Rattler]

My fury at the GOP-E will never be sated because of this one too...

Next for GOP leaders: Stopping Sarah Palin

[Nuc 1.1]

We lost the majority in the house and senate due to liberal pubbies destroying the brand. Thanks to people like Denney Hester, Dick Luger, John McCain, and George Bush, we had spending worse than democrats, amnesty proposals, open support of the socialist agenda, and the gang of 14 costing us the first chance to start rolling back the liberal agenda by preventing excellent conservative jurists from being elevated to the middle and upper level federal bench. No Luger, you and people like you cost us the house and senate. And perhaps the nation. I hope the good voters of Indiana send you packing.

[chris37]

One thing is for sure.

The GOP is dead.