C’mon, Hoosiers: get rid of that POS RINO crap! He’s fed at the Taxpayer Trough for far too long!
Remembering that Lugar is one of the senior Republican Senators, if they retake the Senate he will get his choice of a prime committee chairmanship.
If, on the other hand, he loses in the upcoming primary somebody else will get that prime committee chairmanship.
Typically states seek to keep their senior senators in office forever to BRING IN THE FAVORABLE TREATMENT!
To give you a sense of how that works let's say you were Senator Douglas in Illinois and you wanted to stifle Indiana's commercial development of its limited Lake Michigan waterfront and enhance Chicago's. He, Douglas, while the 25th ranking Senator, definitely outscored Vance Hartke at 68 and Birch Bayh at 91!
Consequently Douglas got the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore enacted.
If the rankings had been the reverse, much of Chicago North and South of the Loop would have been reconfigured as the site of the even higher more widespread dunes that'd been knocked over a century before.
Currently Richard Lugar, as nasty as he may be is the third most senior Senator. Presuming Republicans can feed capable people into his staff, this guy could be exceedingly valuable as long as they can keep his drooling to a minimum, and if necessary, his wheelchair wheels greased.
If he's taken out in the primary ~ you'll see McConnell advance in Republican ranks to a position where Indiana is liable to see another National Shoreline pop up along the Ohio, with no new bridges!
As everyone here knows I'm not a Lugar supporter by any means, but that's why Senate seniority is important, and Lugar would be the highest ranking Republican Senator. I'd hope his staff is prepared to move on relocating the Lake Michigan National Seashore to Chicago (at the least).
It will be very difficult for Republican voters to remove Lugarn simply because it'd be like shooting their right foot off ~ or worse!.