Posted on 01/18/2013 4:53:47 AM PST by RC one
” and I very much disagree that Lugar is more left of dangerous than a RAT—not even close.”
I’ll give a for instance: Sen. Lugar voted against EVERY move meant to weaken or punish the Iranian regime, including any sanctions & was THE ONLY senator to vote against listing the Iranian Revolutionary Guard on the Terrorist list.
His stance & votes have been so pro-Iranian regime, that people have wondered if he’s been receiving money from them.
He’s a danger to the U.S.
He’s not nearly the danger to America as Reid and the Democrats. We’ll have to differ on the value of those such as Lugar. IF we could have replaced him with a better Republican, I’m all for it but to deliberately choose to lose and let the Democrat control the Senate, then it’s a bad deal.
Of course he counts toward a majority.
I forgot to ad ND:
Berg: Simply saying “I’m the GOP candidate, vote for me” isn’t enough against an inspired (and highly organized/motivated DNC candidate). Berg lost by less than 3,000 votes. Berg’s campaign was described by local insiders as sloppy, undisciplined, and reeking of GOPe (aka: taking the base for granted). This race was begging for an upset and the DNC brought in the big guns/money to pull it off. Heitkamp struck with perfect timing at the end to squeeze out a few thousand votes at the end.
The Senate was ripe for the picking for the GOP. If the candidates played it smart, practiced “Media 101” skills (may I suggest the Breitbart school of journamism) and just learned to avoid the traps (Akin, Mourdock), we could of picked up 4-7 seats.
I don’t know if 2014 will get us to 50+ and it might take a few cycles to get the Senate back....but only if the GOP learns its lessons and stops pointing its fingers at the base. Future conservative/TP candidates will have to realize that it’s a BLOOD SPORT. Mistakes that might of been survivable in the bush-leagues are game killers in the big leagues.
Not when they’re working to advance the opposition agenda. They’re a Trojan Horse.
That’s just not true.
I voted for Mourdock in the primary, but Old Lugie was an 80% Republican.
Now we got a 97% Baraqqi for 6 years.
Even a casual observer like myself realized from listening to Rush Limbaugh that JournoList Stephanopolus signaled the “war on women” theme in the first R pres debate.
Can’t believe Mourdock wasn’t ready for that one. Unreal.
Old Lugie had a 64% ACU rating.
Obama Joe will be about 20%.
A bad tradeoff by any accounting.
No, not at all. I’m saying that we showed all the GOP congresscritters that we can make them or break them.
Doesn’t matter...there is no excuse for the RNC not supporting a republican primary winner. And as for them losing with hugh margins... really...after the rino leadership castigated them all over Fox I was surprised they did as well as they did. Meanwhile we were assured Mitt was the guy!!!
re: “For other examples, see Sharon Angle, Todd Akin, and Christine O’Donnell.
All three of these people were better than the people they defeated......and all three were back stabbed by the rhino party leaders!!!”
I can’t speak for Akin or O’Donnell, but you are exactly correct about Nevadan Sharon Angle. The Nevada RNC worked against her from the start. There were even long time Nevada Republican state reps who publicly came out against her in support of HARRY REID!!!
Instead of coming together to defeat public enemy #1 Reid, the Nevada RNC divided Republicans and conservatives, handing Reid another SIX YEARS to do his mayhem. Nevada used to be a consistently red state, but no more and I hand much of the blame on Nevada’s Republican establishment.
Thus falls 0bama’s house RINO!
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