Posted on 04/28/2019 9:40:13 AM PDT by Trump20162020
Former Indiana Sen. Richard Lugar, a Republican foreign policy sage known for leading efforts to help the former Soviet states dismantle and secure much of their nuclear arsenal, but whose reputation for working with Democrats cost him his final campaign, died Sunday. He was 87.
The Lugar Center issued a statement saying Lugar died early Sunday at the Inova Fairfax Heart and Vascular Institute in Virginia from complications related to chronic inflammatory demylinating polyneuropathy, or CIPD, a rare neurological disorder.
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I found him to be an honest politician and better than most. A bright man and a Rhodes Scholar, I worked as an economic advisor for him on his first run for Senator, which he lost. His second run was successful and he served multiple terms. He did not ask me for help with his second run, which may help explain why he won...
Funny how NEVER there is a Democrat politician who is known for working with the Republicans...
Since Reagan.
Nothing personal, but he makes the ‘swamp’ look more like a MOAT.
The Republicans have MANY ‘foreign policy’ ‘experts’, although, sadly, they all have been proven wrong, otherwise 9=11 would not have come close to happening.
voted into office from Indiana.
died in a hospital on virginia
worthless
Oy!
what the heck? He’s worthless because he died in a different state than the state he was elected from? What exactly are you trying to say?
I think joe manchin will be mentioned for that when he is written about on his death.
Bump
Man, this is a rough audience.
I didn’t know much about him.
I do remember he supported gun control which automatically makes him bad in my opinion.
Sorry to hear it. I always liked him. Memory eternal.
RIP RINO.
RIP, My dad was his staff photographer at one time. Mr Lugar had a photographic memory. I was in his limo once watching him prepare for a speech he was about to give to the Conference of Mayors in Indianapolis. He read it once then kibitzed with Mitch Daniels while en route. Gave the speech verbatim and never needed a note or prompter. I got to sit in the kitchen eating king crab chunks as my dad did a photoshoot for a campaign spread in the Indianapolis Star.
This reflects my remembrance of him as well. A decent man with solid conservative instincts but not always a party loyalist. RIP.
Oh for the love of Christ because someone disagrees with a position we hold dear then it’s ok to to call him an asshole at death and wish him a hateful goodbye? Is that what our society has come to? Because it’s so much easier to click fingers across a keyboard to a faceless person saying something despicable that would never be uttered face to face?
I remember him as a centrist. Okay guy, but not a Conservative.
Otherwise being too “wishy washy”.
Not happy about him dying, but we are ALL going to die. It’s more a question of where we go next.
Six terms in the senate, 36 years, a very long time. Well, rest in peace Senator Lugar.
I live in Indiana. I think that Lugar started out as a conservative (I remember him wanting to mine Iranian ports during the Iranian hostage crisis). He embraced Reagan. However, the last 15-20 years, he changed into a establishment RINO and vocally supported very liberal judges to the bench. Word on the street in Indiana was that he increasingly did not reflect the values of the voters in Indiana. That is why he was primaried in 2012. While he initially stated he was going to back Richard Murdoch, he never did and supported the democrat Donnelly down the stretch. (Lugar and Donnelly were seen together many a time in public appearances) Lastly, he bemoaned the use of labels and how it hurt governing. In other words, he didn’t want to be called a liberal or supporting liberal ideas. That really cemented his legacy as far as I am concerned.
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