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.
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Good riddance!
“Old fart that won’t leave gracefully and continues to believe he’s beloved amongst Hoosiers even though his constituency has rented a Uhaul truck and is at his office right now offering to help him pack” ping.
Why should Lugar campaign for Mourdock? It is not as if Lugar is an Indiana resident. The dude is from the Washington D. C. area.
I say let those with a dog in the fight do the camapaigning. Lugar checked out of Indiana years and years ago. If it wasn’t that he had no chance of being a Senator as a D. C. or Virginia resident he would have cut the last few ties he had with Indian years ago.
Old RINOs don’t care about the future of this nation. They just want to be invited to their Democrat friends’ parties in D.C., where they’ve lived for decades.
This is a trend with the establishment RINO types.When they lose against the tea party conservatives they take their toys and go home ready to pounce if the dem wins but wont do anything to help defeat the dem.
Lugar didn’t care about anything except Lugar. Just another sad, old, senile RINO wandering off to the country club.
Good riddance Lugar.
Who wants your support anyway? Mourdock doesn’t need it.
Next stop for Lugar: Lobbying for the Law Of The Sea treaty with that other loser Trent Lott.
The ego of an 80 year old Washington institution does not permit introspection. That voters could take exception to the fact he does not own a home in the state he purports to represent is something beyond his comprehension.
Lugar is an entrenched member of the elite establishment. His remarks demonstrate he feels more affinity with his fellow Senators and bureaucrats than he does for the voters of the state he rarely visits. For entrenched long term senators such as Lugar, Hatch and McConnell the worst thing about their jobs is having to reach out to the voters every six years. Fortunately the voters are beginning to perceive the entrenched elite Senators despise the little people that pesky Constitution forces them to pander to every six years.
The grassroots Tea Party movement is the greatest threat to the institutionalized power of the elite establishment. This explains the efforts by leaders of both the Democrat and Republican establishments to discredit the Tea Party and curb its activities. For conservatives to roll back the leviathan state, we will have to continue to organize at the local level, taking control of the Republican party apparatus and electing candidates who will represent the people, not pander to them during election years. This is the way the Marxists gained control of the Democrat party.
Romney is not the answer to putting America back on track as he is a member of both the Wall Street and Republican political establishments. Like Obama, his life experience provides him with zero insight into the lives and struggles of the middle class. He has never experienced the fear of losing a job and not being able to pay the mortgage. He has not worked a second job to buy a replacement car, pay a medical bill, or put his child through college. He doesn’t have to sit in a high school principal’s office demanding his child be transferred from the classroom of an incompetent teacher. He doesn’t spend hours trying to work through piles of medical bills and claims of his ailing parents. He gives large sums of money to his church but does he go to the churchyard every Saturday and mow the yard with other men of the congregation? Without these life experiences, how can he understand us?
To bring back America, all of the members of the elite establishment must be retired from the political arena. Every four years since 1988 true conservatives have faced the choice of voting for the presidential candidate whose major attribute is “he’s not as bad as the other guy.” I voted for Reagan in 1984 and it felt very good to enthusiastically cast my vote for someone who cared about the country more than himself and who truly attempted to represent all of the people, not just the big moneyed interests. I’d like to have that opportunity again.
Lugar’s departure is one small step. As the 2010 elections demonstrated we must not only elect real conservatives we have to hold their feet to the fire and not let them become captured by the establishment. Too many of the 2010 freshman class were ensnared by Boehner and McConnell. We must get real conservatives into the key leadership posts of Congress to move the needle.
America, like a great building, was built one stone at a time. We cannot fix it by putting on a new roof. We must fix the foundation one step at a time.
Good! Wouldn’t want to hurt his chances of being elected.
$10 says Lugie never returns to Indiana.
Lugar doesn’t even live in Indiana. He will return to his home in McLean, VA and get a job with a Beltway Bandit firm. These long time pols feeding at the public trough never go home. They stay in the DC area, their real home.
Why should he? They belong to different parties...
So I decided to be a lady.....
Leni
Ohhhhhh! Little Dickie got he’s felling hurt! He’ll probably pull a Murkowski and run as an independent!!!
Nope, Spoilsport law here in IN, he is OUT!
Does Col. North and John Warner come to mind!!!
Indiana was smart to have a “sore loser” law in place to avoid the mess in Alaska where Murkowski would not accept defeat in the primary and mounted a write-in campaign that got her back in the Senate. That Harpie should have been retired, but the Alaska RINO elites wanted their bought and paid for Senator Lisa back in DC. And the Republican elites don't understand why RINOs are loathed and despised? It's because of stuff like this, that's why.
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