Posted on 05/09/2012 6:52:25 AM PDT by Qbert
Jim mentioned this earlier, but it's worth highlighting Dick Lugar's shrill parting statement. Though he says "I hope my opponent wins in November," it doesn't sound like he means it:
If Mr. Mourdock is elected, I want him to be a good Senator. But that will require him to revise his stated goal of bringing more partisanship to Washington. He and I share many positions, but his embrace of an unrelenting partisan mindset is irreconcilable with my philosophy of governance and my experience of what brings results for Hoosiers in the Senate. In effect, what he has promised in this campaign is reflexive votes for a rejectionist orthodoxy and rigid opposition to the actions and proposals of the other party...[Snip]
This is not conducive to problem solving and governance. And he will find that unless he modifies his approach, he will achieve little as a legislator.
[Snip]
As the liberal journalist Evan McMorris-Santoro quips, he's playing the role of Democratic surrogate.
Apparently Lugar's much-vaunted civility is a courtesy he extends only to his left; turning to his right, he becomes a churl. Good riddance; I'm sure he'll do very well at the high-paying K Street job that likely awaits him.
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I agree Laz! No doubt about it!
“None are so blind as those who will not see.”
I disagree with you about Cornyn. IMHO he is a straight up conservative who has been somewhat held back up to now by the retiring senior senator from Texas.
BINGO!...Post of the day!..
for too many years now we've been compromised to the left!....a slow and steady drift...time for the pendulum to swing back now
I am so sad to lose that post - the bad assedness was thrilling.
Now, I feel like singing MacArthur's Park “where someone left the cake out in the rain...”
And, I have a dental appt. this afternoon. What a day....
Now we see if Mourdock gets treated any better than Christine O’Donnell was back in 2010 by the GOP-e.
But, but, Peggy Noonan told us how important it was to keep good ole Lugar because he was the mature, sober leadership we needed in these difficult times. Did Peggy have it wrong? I don’t see much maturity in these post primary loss comments. I’m sooooo confused.
Now, I feel like singing MacArthur’s Park “where someone left the cake out in the rain...”
I imagine a lot of these guys go in with campaign debts and come out lighting their cigars with 100 dollar bills - in part because of lobbyists.
This is how you change the GOP. NOT with third party spoilers.
Please think again.
I served on LST 532.
Don’t sink me, just LUGAR
Amen, Amen, and AMEN! Couldn't have said it better myself! This fight will be won down in the trenches ONE primary fight at a time!
Yuuuuup. And, they forget pretty quickly.
Get them all out of D.C. and make them do the business of their constituents locally.
It can be done - I've seen it in the movies and my 12 year old nephew says it can be done pretty easily with all the fancy electronics now.
Nicely put, Ruy D d B.
Unfortunately, true...
Their primary job, once they arrive in Washington, is continuing to campaign to keep that job...for life!
Yes, to term limits.
Yikes, what is going on there?
So now it is finally clear. It wasn’t how, when or how much Money Lugar spent. It was not a flaw in the candidate. It is a rejection of his entire line of Liberal BS that the people rejected.
This does not bode well for RINO’s
Where would one find such a gun/
I have an abstract painting and when asked what it represented, I'd ask them to tell me what it represented to them.
One date, the guy said “a gun and a penis”.
That was our first and last date...
“The Distinguished Gentlemen”
Hi, dfwgator.
I haven’t seen that movie but will check it out. Thanks!
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