“Actually, Lugar immediately endorsed Mourdock.”
Sort of.
“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,” said Lugar of the GOP opponent who beat him.
“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. Worse, he will help delay solutions that are totally beyond the capacity of partisan majorities to achieve,” said Lugar.
Lugar, a senior Republican statesman who briefed President Dwight Eisenhower as a young naval officer, offered a shot across the bow to today’s GOP.
He said if Republicans continue to make it difficult for legislators to find compromise, “we will be relegated to minority status. Parties don’t succeed for long if they stop appealing to voters who may disagree with them on some issues.”
http://www.cnn.com/2012/05/09/politics/lugar-parting-words/index.html?eref=rss_politics
That is one HELL of a pee-poor ‘endorsement’!
Yep, thanks for pointing that out. I guess I was thinking of Mitch Daniels' very classy endorsement of Mourdock. Anyway, Lugar's sour grapes concession speech was indeed disgusting. I mean, Lugar didn't just get edged in the primary - - he got buried. And he still doesn't get it.
FRegards,
LH
He said if Republicans continue to make it difficult for legislators to find compromise, “we will be relegated to minority status. Parties don’t succeed for long if they stop appealing to voters who may disagree with them on some issues.”
You beat yourself, crankbait. What kind of loser harps about disconnect, when he doesn't even own a house in the State he supposedly represents?!? Parties don't succeed for long if they keep sending the same octogenarian six-term RINOs with the same stale, last-century RINO 'ideas' back to the Senate.
And by the way, Dick, it's a Senate, not a House of Lords.
You became part of the problem, with a clear interest in sustaining the problem -- like START -- rather than actually providing a real solution. And your comity comedy with Bobo? Don't get me started.
"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,” said Lugar of the GOP opponent who beat him."
And so he did. Wash, rinse, repeat as needed. Enjoy your retirement, you old goat.