Posted on 12/29/2011 3:46:29 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Richard Lugar has been in Washington since 1977 and has been among the most visible Senate Republicans for decades now. On foreign policy, he’s perhaps one of the most knowledgable members of the Senate at this point and, if he manages to get re-elected and Republicans gain control of the Senate, he would become the President Pro Tempore and third in line to the Presidency. That “manages to be re-elected” part is the problem for him, though. It’s not likely that he’d lose to a Democrat in a General Election, but right now he’s facing a Tea Party backed challenge in the primary that will be held on May 8th and there’s little love lost between Indiana’s Senior Senator and the insurgent Republican movement. This past Sunday, for example, Lugar said that he believed that it was the Tea Party that cost Republicans control of the Senate in the 2010 elections:
Sen. Dick Lugar (Ind.), facing a primary contest from the right in his reelection bid, said past Tea Party-backed challenges had “killed off” Republican efforts to take the Senate in the past and could undermine a GOP majority again in 2012.
“A Republican majority in the Senate is very important, and Republicans who are running for reelection ought to be supported by people who want to see that majority,” Lugar said in an interview that aired Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union.”
“I think the majority of Tea Party people understand that too,” he added.
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Republicans lost the seats before in Nevada_and_New Jersey and Colorado where there were people who were claiming they wanted somebody who was more of their Tea Party aspect, but they killed off the Republican majority.”
“This is one of the reasons why we have a minority in the Senate right now,” he claimed....
(Excerpt) Read more at outsidethebeltway.com ...
“......hardwood tree farm, including significant acreage in black walnut trees.....” is fairly common throughout Indiana. Black walnut timber is one of your higher priced varieties so people plant a few acres to hand down to their Great Great Great grandchildren as a sort of patrimony. I’m presuming you didn’t know that. But it’s very difficult to make an immediate profit on the trees ~ not in this lifetime nor the next either. We had a bunch of them going and it took about 40 years before the first tree had a nut and then it wasn’t fertile and didn’t take.
Only because the GOP has joined ranks with the democrats. To hell with them, to hell with lugar.
Dear Dick,
YOU ARE THE REASON THIS COUNTRY IS SO SCREWED UP, Sorry for screaming, but I am so sick and tired of these self important, petulant little pansies who call themselves Senator, especially ones like this who has been there since almost the beginning of the Planned Destruction of Freedom, Morals, Values, and any sense of decency in this Country. Resign or be Fired Asshole.
This EX -democrat needs to be put out to pasture
Richard Lugar has been in Washington since 1977
Best reason I know not to trust this windbag.
I wouldn’t say the Tea Party per se, but the not so great candidates. I was not impressed by Angle and O’Donnell. One looked like an angry lady, and the other didn’t have enough credential—which of course, got a pass simply because she said all the ‘correct’ things that conservatives wanted to hear rather than scrutinized her records. That recently she endorsed Romney broke some people’s hearts here.
What does Lugar know about Republicans?
What good is a Senate majority if we have people like Lugar Mitch McConnell, Grahamnesty ,Hatch and McCain running it?.
Primary him.
Comments like this invite a challenge.
First, the Tea Party brought tremendous energy, money and candidates to the Republican Party, helping push Republicans across the finish line in many close elections.
Second, in some cases, the Tea Party may have messed things up. For example. Delaware. But, who’s to say a Congressman who couldn’t defeat an upstart in the Republican primary was going to represent the party well in the general?
The NET was a big plus for the Republicans.
Anybody who dismisses the Tea Party’s importance to the Republican coalition is saying they should just send in their money to us, and vote for us, because we are, according to their perspective, only half as bad as the Democrats.
Real political leaders keep all the members of the coalition happy, or as many as possible. They don’t trash the other members of the coalition.
It should also be pointed out that the tea party played a big part in electing Scott Brown knowing full well that he was extremely flawed by tea party standards.
It was a rational and calculated decision on the part of tea partiers.
It was his type of Republicanism that lost the Senate in 2006 but he seems to gloss over that.
Instead of fighting the Tea Party, the GOP should be adopting the Tea Party’s agenda. The Republicans are missing an historic opportunity.
No one gave you permission to speak for us you corrupt old RINO.
Listen Senator Loogie:
You are starting to delve into territory where it will be sad to watch you as your nurse wipes the drool from your unfortunate drooling face.
The fact of the matter is the Senate was not in contest for 2010. The numbers to win a majority simply weren’t there.
Now for 2012 The Numbers are absolutely there and we will be the majority if not super majority.
Don’t forget to wash your geritol down with a delicious glass of ensure.
You might even consider additional fiber to your diet so your diapers aren’t so shmooshy.
That is it. He is attempting to redefine the TEA party. I wonder where the Nelson(D) Nebraska questions were........
It’s time to “hock a luger” and get rid of this booger!!!
In Lugar’s dark mind:
“Tea Party cost GOP the Senate...”
(Translation)
BLAME PALIN!!!
There was no way that ANY Republican could of won Delaware in 2010...not even Castle. If Castle couldn’t beat COD in the primary, he sure as hell wasn’t gonna beat Coons in the general.
As to Sharon Angle. She was up against Reid and his money/machine/fraud. She lost by only 4 points.
2010 was the Tea Party’s first set of national elections, if anyone was expecting perfection the first time out they are fooling themselves.
The GOP was competing in a lot of blue states in 2010....not the case in 2012.
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