Richard Lugar: Tea Party Cost GOP Senate Control In 2010

Outside The Beltway ^ | December 29, 2011 | Doug Mataconis

[Jimmy Valentine]

Way past time for this senile RINO self interested drooler to be sent home.

[Ingtar]

Sorry Dick. We want that majority to be made up of people on OUR side.

[bimboeruption]

These RINO’s will never get it.

[Nevadan]

What good is Senate control by Republicans who vote like Democrats?

[Fledermaus]

Lugar is another poster boy for the RINO establishment.

And what the heck would he have done as chairman of some stupid committee if the GOP won the Senate?

He’d “work across the isle” to water down any conservative legislation to give the Dems most of what they wanted. He’d want to go back to “power sharing” (remember that Trent Lott disaster? what a flaming you know what).

[Lazlo in PA]

This seems to be the typical, tired meme for the inside the beltway dopes. Lugar has to look no further than in the mirror to see why the GOP didn't take the Senate. If it were no for the Tea Party energizing the base, these clowns would still be the laughing stock embarrassment they were in '08. I am surprised that Lugar can make statements like this. I would have thought that his face would have totally drooped off this Olde Pharts head by now.

[Cicero]

Lugar used to be a pretty good conservative many moons ago. But he has lost it, completely. He’s turned into a clone of Olympia Snowe.

[Graewoulf]

Awwwwwwwwwwwww - - - - . This is soooooooooooooo sad! Sniffle, sniffle, honk!

ANOTHER RINO is fearful of loosing his $174,000/year “job.” Boo-hoo!

Hey, “Rich” Lugar, this TEA Party will throw all you RINOs overboard!

What good is a Republican “Majority” in either the Senate or the House if the ONLY thing y’all can do is perform the “Bipartisan Cave-In” macorana?

[opentalk]

He pushed the new start treaty with Russia in lame duck session. He knows Obama's background. He needs to go along with other career congressman.

McCain is another one, has done great damage with his defense bill that strips citizens of rights.

[Islander7]

Richard Lugar has been in Washington since 1977 <--- THAT IS THE PROBLEM!!

[justlurking]

Without the Tea Party, the Democrats would still control the House, and have a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate.

[muawiyah]

He's never been a RINO. His political positions are remarkably constant and have not changed since the days when Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan set the standards of Republican orthodoxy.

You really have to get over this belief that people you don't agree with are RINOs. Could be you yourself are really in the wrong party.

[cripplecreek]

Richard Lugar open secrets profile.

http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/summary.php?cid=N00001764&cycle=2012

Interestingly enough, the owner of Lugar Farms sits on the Senate Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Committee. If I recall correctly Lugar Farms was raising trees for “Carbon sequestration”.

[muawiyah]

I’ve been around here longer than that. It’s not a problem.

[onyx]

Way past time for this senile RINO self interested drooler to be sent home.

Yes and by TEA Party patriots.

[cripplecreek]

Lugar Farm is first in Indiana to provide carbon sequestration offsets on the Chicago Climate Exchange

Money for nuthin and get your chicks for free.

[muawiyah]

http://www.opensecrets.org/pfds/candlook.php?CID=n00001764

[jersey117]

Lugar has been playing nice with obama from day one.

[marygam]

These politicians have forgotten when to go home. It’s time for you to go Dick! While we are at it, take McLame, Grahmnesty, and let’s go over to Congress and clean house there too! You guys have sucked this country dry, and we all will be paying for it for generations to come.