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Lugar Says He Won't Campaign For Mourdock
AP/theindychannel.com ^ | May 28, 2012 | uncredited

Posted on 05/29/2012 4:59:23 AM PDT by Abathar

INDIANAPOLIS -- U.S. Sen. Richard Lugar said he doesn't intend to campaign for the man who defeated him in Indiana's Republican primary.

Lugar said Sunday on CBS' "Face The Nation" that he would not actively campaign on behalf of GOP senatorial nominee Richard Mourdock. The state treasurer will face Democrat Joe Donnelly in November.

(Excerpt) Read more at theindychannel.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; Politics/Elections; US: Indiana
KEYWORDS: indiana; lugar; mourdock; nwo; teaparty; un
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"Lugar said he still thinks most Hoosiers support him. The 80-year-old said he believes some voters thought he was too old. He also blames outside spending against him by conservative groups like the Club for Growth."

All I can say is thank God we have a sour grapes law here in Indiana. I'd bet the farm he would run as an independent knowing full well he would split the vote and hand it to the Dems.

He is the perfect example of why we desperately need term limits, but how can we get that accomplished when they are the only ones who can impose it on themselves? The only other way I see is a Con-Con and that would scare the hell out of me now.

1 posted on 05/29/2012 4:59:31 AM PDT by Abathar
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To: Abathar

Sore loser. He can’t clean out his office soon enough for my taste.


2 posted on 05/29/2012 5:00:53 AM PDT by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
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To: Abathar

....expecting anything different from this POS would have been very naive.


3 posted on 05/29/2012 5:01:38 AM PDT by Doogle (((USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated)))
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To: Abathar

Lugar was too old during his first term. It didn’t take long to see what a globalist and a RINO he was. His pukey, repulsive countenance won’t be needed if a candidate wants to win.


4 posted on 05/29/2012 5:04:44 AM PDT by IbJensen (If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed, if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed)
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To: Abathar

**** lugar... best $150.00 that I ever spent! Of course he will not campaign for the republican... he is and always has been a rat bastid dim.

LLS


5 posted on 05/29/2012 5:07:37 AM PDT by LibLieSlayer (Don't Tread On Me)
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To: Rummyfan

Of course Lugar won’t campaign for Mourdock. Sourest grapes in town. Why, a Man of His Years DESERVES more respect than was shown him.

Senility takes many forms.


6 posted on 05/29/2012 5:08:12 AM PDT by alloysteel (Fear and intimidation work. At least on the short term.)
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To: Abathar

He shouldn’t be actively campaigning. That’s the point!


7 posted on 05/29/2012 5:09:27 AM PDT by tellw
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To: Abathar

Lugar is a posterboy for exactly what’s wrong with D.C.


8 posted on 05/29/2012 5:09:47 AM PDT by JohnLongIsland
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If you really want to see who supported Dick Lugar, go to the indianapolis Star.( don't post anything from the star here)

Reading the comment section is amazing, 95% of those comments are from admitted democrats, praising Lugar for being the only intelligent republican, a true statesman, a man who would listen to reason and vote to the center.

It really is a great place to see just why, conservatives in Indiana got rid of Lugar.

Everyone chants, "we should throw the bums out" (Just not my bum...)

This time we really did throw the bum out.

9 posted on 05/29/2012 5:10:46 AM PDT by Kakaze (I want the Republic back !)
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To: Abathar

While conservatives are supposed to back whoever wins the nomination, the RINOs never back the conservative. Rove in Delaware, Newt in NY23. They’re all the same.


10 posted on 05/29/2012 5:11:17 AM PDT by freedomfiter2 (Brutal acts of commission and yawning acts of omission both strengthen the hand of the devil.)
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Lugar said he doesn’t intend to campaign for the man who defeated him in Indiana’s Republican primary.

....that’s a load off Mourdock’s mind.


11 posted on 05/29/2012 5:11:48 AM PDT by Recon Dad (Gas & Petroleum Junkie)
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But Rove and company would demand that Mourdock campaign for Lugar. For conservatives must always support the moderate. But moderates never support conservatives. Lugar will probably vote for the democrat.


12 posted on 05/29/2012 5:12:23 AM PDT by cotton1706
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Lugar can take that phony smile of his and hang with his pals in the steam room.


13 posted on 05/29/2012 5:18:23 AM PDT by em2vn
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To: Abathar

Sounds a bit like Hitler’s retreat strategy....”if I can’t have it nobody can”.


14 posted on 05/29/2012 5:19:45 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Julia: another casualty of the "War on Poverty")
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To: Abathar

Lugar: the Mike Castle of Indiana.

A pox on them both.

He will nenceforth be known as Sen. Sour Grapes.


15 posted on 05/29/2012 5:24:22 AM PDT by exit82 (Democrats are the enemies of freedom. Be Andrew Breitbart.)
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To: Abathar

This goes on all the time in New Jersey. When Liberal elites get nominated, they are supported by the schnook conservatives in the general election and then go on to act like Dems if they are elected. If a conservative is nominated, the elitist RINOs refuse to support him/her and actively conspire to defeat him/her.

This goes back at least as far as Barry Goldwater back in 1964 when Keating, Javits and Nelson Rockefeller mugged for the camera with wide smiles as they walkd out of the Republican convention which nominated Godlwater and then went on with people like George Romney, Peter J. Frelinghuysen, etc. to actively work for Goldwater’s defeat, insuring a Johnson victory.

Expect Luger to eventually work against Mourdock.

These damn RINOs are really just wealthy Democrats who work for their own personal fiscal interests in the GOP while espousing Democrat social ideas.


16 posted on 05/29/2012 5:27:49 AM PDT by ZULU (Non Nobis Domine Non Nobis Sed Nomini Tuo Da Gloriam.)
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To: Abathar

This proves he’s nothing but a RINO. He can’t even be a man and accept the peoples’ choice. Nor can he be thankful for the years he had in office. Ingrate. Sour grapes from a sour old man. I hope he has a miserable retirement.


17 posted on 05/29/2012 5:30:09 AM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: Abathar
Lugar will probably campaign for the democrat.
18 posted on 05/29/2012 5:31:09 AM PDT by TYVets (Pure-Gas.org ..... ethanol free gasoline by state and city)
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To: Recon Dad

Bingo! I wouldn’t want that old RINO anywhere near my campaign. I would actually use him in my ads as an example of what I would be fighting against in Washington.


19 posted on 05/29/2012 5:31:40 AM PDT by nodumbblonde ("The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity." - Ayn Rand)
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To: nodumbblonde

You’re right. It’s good ad material.

You’re darned right I’m not Lugar!


20 posted on 05/29/2012 5:33:52 AM PDT by samtheman (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2888480/posts?page=2#2)
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