Bye bye Dick...and take Barack with you.
They all develop this attitude after a couple of terms in the Senate. It’s a huge part of the whole problem.
DO NOT be surprised if you find inside the beltway establishment republicans clandestinely funneling resources to Joe Donnelly! They absolutely HATE the TEA party and will do ANYTHING to defeat it!
This is the fundamental difference between Tea Party votes and major party votes. The Tea Party doesn't want to compromise on freedom or on responsible government just to bring "results for Hoosiers", not at the expense of results for the next generation of Americans. I am rigidly opposed to communism, to socialism, to big government liberalism, and to spending $1.5T more a year than the federal government brings in. I don't see any flaws at all in rigid opposition to Obama, Pelosi, and Reid, when their entire purpose in life is to subvert individual freedom.
I'm glad that Lugar is out; he was 100% wrong on compromise, which meant repeatedly splitting the difference between the current level of government intrusion and the level of government meddling in our wallets and in our lives desired by the far left. I hope the new Tea Party Senators and Congressmen will push for "compromise" in the sense of repeatedly splitting the difference between our current level of bloated government and a return to a limited and constitutional government. And I hope the far left will not default to reflexive votes for a rejectionist orthodoxy and rigid opposition to the actions and proposals of the patriotic Tea Party.
Lugar needs to be taunted mercilessly.
Lugar is a TYPICAL RINO. If they can’t get nominated, they would rather a Democrat get in BECAUSE RINOs think more like Democrats than they tnink like fellow Republicans.
Is Lugar looking for support to pull a Murkowski? Sounds more like a campaign speech than a concession speech.
Until then, term limits!
Lugar's brain is adled by Washington DC-itus. Has he forgotten what the parasites did with their super-majority in 2009-2010? How Pelosi-Reid rolled Bush in 2007-2008? We need unrelenting conservative partisanship to unravel the mess created by the left.
“...partisan mindset is irreconcilable with my philosophy of governance”
Right there is the meat of the matter....”go along, get along” politics has brought us to where we are....that ..and the fact that while Democrats ALWAYS play the partisan card...RINOS are too wimpy to do so...
Nonsense. Lugar was sufficiently gracious for my satisfaction. Damn it, we gave him a gold watch when he wanted to stay employed. I don’t expect him to be leading big cheers for the victor just yet.
Lugar, since 1977. Seems he is nothing but a government employee welfare queen. About time he was made to get a real job.
"If you're above them in a hierarchy all you see is lips; if below, all you see is a**."
To which I would add the RINO corollary:
"To their left all they extend is cordial friendship; to the right vindictive hatred."
Regards,
TS
Funny how that "team player" concept disappears whenever it isn't a central committee approved candidate who wins the primary. (C.f., Mookowski, Idiot-AK)
I'll make them a deal -- they come out in full force in support for the TEA Party candidates beat the "establishment" candidates in primaries, and I'll swallow my pride and vote for Romney in November. I can say this feeling pretty safe I'll never have to make good on my end of that deal.
” - - - 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. His answer to the inevitable roadblocks he will encounter in Congress is merely to campaign for more Republicans who embrace the same partisan outlook. He has pledged his support to groups whose prime mission is to cleanse the Republican party of those who stray from orthodoxy as they see it.”
Yep. That pretty well describes why you lost this Primary election, Dicky L.
BTW Dicky L, did you become a Millionaire while in the US Senate?
If so, then I guess you found “Bipartisan Cave-In” to be a very profitable way of lining your sorry pockets at our expense.
BTW, BTW, to All: somebody clever an FR needs to take Dicky L’s pouty talking points and make some Campaign posters out of them!
POSTERS UP!!!!!!!!
Suggestions:
1.) “ - - - rigid opposition to the actions and proposals of the - - - “ ____________ ;
2.) “ - - - campaign for more Republicans who - - - “ __________ , ______________ , and ___________________________________________________ ;
3.) “ - - - prime mission is to cleanse the Republican party of those who stray from - - - “ ___________ , ______________ , and ___________________________________________________________________________ !
It’s funny that the media doesn’t lament the loss of blue dog moderate dems to hyperpartisan socialists in the same manner./s
I’d lay money he’s voting for Donnelly — if not writing himself in.
Are these RINOs that dense, or are they that dishonest?