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Lugar makes last-ditch appeal for support from Indiana Democrats, independents in GOP primary
The Republic ^ | Last Updated: May 04, 2012 - 12:58 pm | TOM LoBIANCO

Posted on 05/04/2012 11:09:32 AM PDT by Red Steel

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Republican Sen. Richard Lugar is asking Democrats and independents to cross party lines and save him next week in the political fight of his life.

The six-term senator said Friday he needs votes from outside his own party if he is to survive Tuesday's GOP primary. Recent polling has shown Lugar trailing tea party-backed state Treasurer Richard Mourdock.

Lugar told reporters he is best suited to represent Jewish and female Hoosiers along with ethnic minorities.

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TOPICS: Extended News; Politics/Elections; US: Indiana
KEYWORDS: dicklugar; lugar
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To: Red Steel

I’ll be a traitor and work for you! You can trust me, because you know I’m a traitor! And I will never betray my new friends like I did my old friends!


21 posted on 05/04/2012 12:09:41 PM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy
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To: ScottinVA

You’ve nailed it. Lugar has coasted for so many years that he’s forgotten how to campaign. He’s also surrounded by a senior staff who have been with him for 20-plus years. That, btw, speaks well of him as a senator and a boss; he’s a gentleman, not one of the jerks. As he’s aged, he’s also burrowed more and more into the Foreign Relations Committee, which is fine except that it does nothing for him politically.

George Bush should probably have made him Secretary of State and let someone a generation younger take the seat.


22 posted on 05/04/2012 12:10:55 PM PDT by sphinx
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To: nikos1121
That Peggy Noonan endorsement just pushed him over the line er cliff. Thanks Peggy you removed all doubt as to whom I was going to vote for. Bye Bye Lugar.
23 posted on 05/04/2012 12:12:26 PM PDT by Kozy (Calling Al Gore)
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To: Red Steel; FreeAtlanta; LibLieSlayer

Next we will be reading about how he called Arlen Specter for advise!


24 posted on 05/04/2012 12:13:58 PM PDT by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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To: 556x45

Still, Romney couldn’t win on his own. He got all these same limp-wristed people behind him, then decimated his opponents with money to get ahead. And I’ve no doubt that he was behind the Cain business and that he was manufacturing votes in the big cities in the industrial states to push him over the top.

I’m still not voting for Romney and I’m not voting for Brown here in MA.

If Romney does win, it will be the last hurrah of the moderates. We know their tricks now and grass roots people are taking over the machinery in state after state (thank you Ron Paul)


25 posted on 05/04/2012 12:14:34 PM PDT by cotton1706
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To: sphinx
That, btw, speaks well of him as a senator and a boss; he’s a gentleman, not one of the jerks.

True.. He seems like someone who has a lot of personal class. But he's had some judgment breakdowns, the greatest of which in recent years was that "aye" vote he cast for ratification of "New START" during the nightmarish two months of the 2010 lame-duck session.

26 posted on 05/04/2012 12:15:03 PM PDT by ScottinVA (Buying Drain-O requires photo I.D... so should voting!)
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To: Kartographer; reefdiver

Go to your room; both of you.


27 posted on 05/04/2012 12:17:28 PM PDT by Mr. Lucky
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To: cotton1706
If Romney does win, it will be the last hurrah of the moderates.

Very doubtful that'll be an issue in November. Romney will be conceding before the West Coast is done voting. It won't be close.

28 posted on 05/04/2012 12:18:08 PM PDT by ScottinVA (Buying Drain-O requires photo I.D... so should voting!)
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To: cotton1706
If Romney does win, it will be the last hurrah of the moderates.

Very doubtful that'll be an issue in November. Romney will be conceding before the West Coast is done voting. It won't be close.

29 posted on 05/04/2012 12:18:25 PM PDT by ScottinVA (Buying Drain-O requires photo I.D... so should voting!)
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To: Red Steel

"Dick, screw the primary voters! Just run a write-in campaign - Mitt, Reince, and the NRSC will back you 100%!"


30 posted on 05/04/2012 12:18:45 PM PDT by COBOL2Java (FUMR)
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To: COBOL2Java
C'mon, put on a happy face there, Lisa!! It's HAPPY TIME!!


31 posted on 05/04/2012 12:22:18 PM PDT by ScottinVA (Buying Drain-O requires photo I.D... so should voting!)
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To: reefdiver

You missed a chance at “...do dumb deeds.”


32 posted on 05/04/2012 12:24:37 PM PDT by Resettozero
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To: Red Steel
Republican Sen. Richard Lugar is asking Democrats and independents to cross party lines and save him next week in the political fight of his life.

Save him? Thirty-six years of perqs in DC have given Lugar a very skewed opinion of his self-importance. Indiana, throw this jackass out of the Senate Tuesday.

33 posted on 05/04/2012 12:26:52 PM PDT by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
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To: Night Hides Not
"What a pathetic way for a six-term Senator to act."

I am convinced now - more than ever - that there should never be such a thing as a 'six-term Senator'... of any party. Shoulda been max'd out at two terms... and maybe three for the House.

34 posted on 05/04/2012 12:31:01 PM PDT by alancarp (Liberals are all for shared pain... until they're included in the pain group.)
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To: Red Steel
Lugar now signs in as a traitor.
35 posted on 05/04/2012 12:32:50 PM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks
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To: Red Steel
"Lugar told reporters he is best suited to represent Jewish and female Hoosiers along with ethnic minorities."

Wow..are you kidding me? Is this statement for real? When and where did he say this?

What a bigoted, sexist and racist thing to say.

I mean..I was shocked when he gushed all over Sotomayor for SCOTUS..but this is like purposely trying to set yourself on fire. He really has lost it.

36 posted on 05/04/2012 12:37:49 PM PDT by Earthdweller (Harvard won the election again...so what's the problem.......? Embrace a ruler today.)
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To: Red Steel

Very.


37 posted on 05/04/2012 12:42:53 PM PDT by tennmountainman
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To: St_Thomas_Aquinas
The TEAParty died when your boy became Governor of Virginia and sold out to Romney.

Can't trust anybody

38 posted on 05/04/2012 12:51:03 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: Red Steel

He is disgusting.


39 posted on 05/04/2012 12:55:47 PM PDT by apocalypto
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To: Red Steel

This is one of the RNC sh1tbags we need to get rid of.

No Balls Boner would be nice to see his ass kicked out too.


40 posted on 05/04/2012 12:58:57 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I can neither confirm or deny that; even if I could, I couldn't - it's classified.)
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