Didn’t see them crying over the loss of moderate Democrats when Zell Miller retired...
Now if we could only get rid of John Boehner...
As an aside, the Author is one of the leading Daily Kos whackjobs.
“Ari Berman is the author of Herding Donkeys: The Fight to Rebuild the Democratic Party and Reshape American Politics”
He one of the Nutroots Obama Journo-list supporters
I guess the ultimate sensible realist was Neville Chamberlain.
I thought that when Nelson Rockefeller had a fatal heart attack in the library that the end of the era of moderate Republicans was over, yet they keep showing up.
I thought that when Nelson Rockefeller had a fatal heart attack in the library that the end of the era of moderate Republicans was over, yet they keep showing up.
I don’t know what this guy is whining about. The GOP is still full to the brim with corrupt, left-wing, pork guzzling RINOs. Housecleaning has scarcely begun. And now they’re working night and day to foist Romney on us.
Lugar is Republican dead wood. Period. He’s been clogging up that chair since 1977. It’s time for a new body in that seat. Especially when the person is so desperate to hold onto personal power they beg democrats to save them.
Dear Senator Lugar,you(and your fellow carreer politicians)are not Part of THE SOLUTION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
People like Mourdock, Rubio and Ron Johnson are extremists inside the beltway. They are the majority in pretty much most of the country.
“The Senate Republican caucus was once filled with the likes of Dick Lugar—sensible realists such as Lincoln Chafee, Chuck Hagel, George Voinovich and Olympia Snowe.”
“sensible realists”???????????????????????
No damn way.
PURGE THE RINO’s!!!!!!!
Lugar thought this was going to be NO CONTEST.
He’s had to dump something like $4.5 MILLION at the last minute, compared to Mourdock’s $2 Mil.
If Mourdock wins, THANK SARAH PALIN, because it will be her endorsement that is responsible for it.
If ever a post deserved a BARF Alert, this one sure does (I know ti;s the Nation). Lamenting the loss of Chuck Hagel and Lincoln Chaffee and now Dick Lugar
“moderate Republican internationalism”
I see nothing wrong with this at all. Moderation does not mean real moderation, but a willingness to join with radical leftists across the isle against his own party.
Internationalism is just foul. Elected officials of the United States are not elected to represent the world, but part of our nation.
Leftism and leftist political parties around the world are tied up with, and even openly affiliated with the Socialist International.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialist_International
This means that they are openly and unabashedly disloyal to their respective nations, in favor of a theoretical international world government. It would not be unreasonable that they be banned from holding elective office for this not just absence of patriotism, but *opposition* to patriotism.
The Socialist Party of America announced in their October 2009 newsletter that 70 Congressional Democrats currently belong to their caucus.
That they belong to this anti-American organization is enough that they be removed from office. And if senator Lugar is sympathetic to this internationalist cause, then he should be removed from office as well.
This is not a casual association, but should disqualify people for holding elective or appointive office in the United States. It is an admission of treasonous conspiracy against the constitution and the people of the United States.
About time the Senate gets some R’s with a spine...more Jesse Helms and less Lugars will be needed to horse whip Romney when he strays!
The article implies we’re making progress.
Awww boo hoo... Somebody throw that liberal/DemocRAT writer a towel to cry on. And after that give him a pacifier.
It’s like these socialist live on a different planet or are just brainwashed fascists.....
I wonder if it ever occurred to this bonehead that John Kennedy would be a conservative Republican by todays standards, that is how far LEFT everything has shifted politically.