Posted on 01/18/2013 4:53:47 AM PST by RC one
The 36-year Senate veteran is trounced by Indiana State Treasurer Richard Mourdock, whose business and Tea Party backers spent $2.7 million to defeat a once-powerful pol they portrayed as out of touch.
That cracking, thudding sound emanating from Indiana on primary night Tuesday was the crumbling of a Washington institution, punctuated by muffled shrieks of terror from incumbent office-holders everywhere.
Republican Sen. Richard Lugar—a towering figure in the national-security, arms-control, and foreign-policy realms who six years ago was so popular in his home state that local Democrats didn’t bother to field an opponent—lost his bid for a seventh term to a lesser-known, more modestly financed challenger who successfully portrayed the 80-year-old incumbent as out of touch and not conservative enough.
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Like 90+% of all congressional offices. It's about time they all go. Maybe time to move the capitol to the Dakotas...
Perhaps it would be best if we just moved our own capital there...
capitOl, need more coffee...
Mourdock was a RINO too. He deliberately got a Dem elected. At the end of the day, Lugar and Mourdock got exactly what they wanted.
Just something to combat the low-information voters or those who suck up the MSM/GOPe talking points.
Lugar: after his primary defeat, went into the background and trash-talked Mourdock at every opportunity with local Indiana GOP groups. If Indiana didn’t have “sore loser” law, that jerk would of run as a third candidate.
O’Donnell: According to party affiliation and exit polls, there was no way a Republican was gonna win Delaware 2010. Even Castle had no shot.
Angle: Harry Reid owns the state’s political machines, the funding and his seniority (or is it senility). GOP had no shot.
Akin: foot in mouth? yes....but you did know he was propped up by Mccaskill’s cronies in the primary by the tune of over one million dollars. Why? He was the weakest of the three GOP candidates.
Meanwhile, lets take a look at who lost and who won (Senate) in 2012.
ME: GOP in disarray and against a popular former governor.
MA: Brown flipped the bird to the TP, went all RINO and was up against a powerful candidate. Burned bridges. GOPe
VA: George Allen, three time loser, mr. “ma-ca-ca”, uninspired campaigner, slow, methodical, dull. GOPe.
FL: Connie Mack, three-time-loser, uninspired race. GOPe. “lost in space”
OH: Josh Mandel. Deer in the headlights against the hunter. In the big leagues Josh, they play for keeps NOT for Chuck-E-Cheese tokens. OUT OF HIS LEAGUE.
MT: Three way race and the Libertarian candidate spoils the show Tester 236,123-—Rehberg 218,051-—Cox 31,892.
DNC plowed a lot of money for their favorite goon Tester.
WI: Tommy Thomson. Uninspired campaign. Thought that by simply announcing he would win by default. Burned a lot of bridges in the primary. GOPe
NE Deb Fischer, CONSERVATIVE....Endorsed by Palin and a great ground game. Defeated the GOPe back candidate in the primary. WINNER
AZ Jeff Flake, CONSERVATIVE....Endorsed by Palin and a great ground game. Did not run away from conservatism. WINNER
TX Ted Cruz, CONSERVATIVE....Endorsed by Palin and a great ground game. Defeated the GOPe candidate in the primary. WINNER
Stop and THINK!! This was no victory—this was a loss. We replaced a RINO with a RAT.
You’d rather have Democrat Donnelly?
Here are my nominations for bad messengers:
Angle, O'Donnell, Miller, Buck, McMahon, Akin, Mourdock(?)
And in keeping with your point, here were some bad (i.e. not bold conservative) messages:
Thompson, Mack, Allen, Bills, Wilson, Berg, Smith, Raese
We need to send our national candidates (House and Senate) to Newt Camp.
Rick Santorem, Bachman, Newt, Perry....
Cain had Charisma and was destroyed
Just be careful. We gain nothing if a RINO is replaced by someone who cannot win the general. We’ve had too many of these tough lessons.
Harkin has to be one of the most liberal senators in the US senate and so far no one has stepped forward to take him on.
DICK LUGAR WAS OBOZO’S FAVORITE REPUBLICAN!!! and yes I know I am yelling. Lugar sucked period. Owned land in Indiana but lived in Maryland, only came to Indiana at election time.
All a Republican needs to win in Iowa is 75% of last year's turnout ~ which is quite doable provided we don't have any homosexual scandals.
Were you aware that almost all Senators end up purchasing a home somewhere in the Virginia or Maryland suburbs?
Yet, in this age of electronic communication we don't really need any of them to come to Washington. They could stay home in their homestates their entire term of service ~ every single day if need be.
I'm sure that would work ~ for the communications part.
“The 36-year Senate veteran”
Should have been a clue right there. Nobody - NOBODY - should actively seek an elected post that many times in a row. And he wonders why he’s seen as “out of touch”?
A good start.
I know nothing about Donnelly. But if he’s a middle of the road dem, he’s better than Lugar.
Too many here are "all or nothing". There seems for some no long term vision of the war. No sense that sometimes you lose a battle to win the war. At this time and in this culture of 'American Idol elects the POTUS', an incremental strategy is required which unfortunately means some 'RINO's (i.e. Castle, Lowden, Murkowski, Norton) are a gain and necessary ... if that would result in taking the Senate out of Reid's evil hands.
That is a war worth winning, even at the 'cost' of a few RINOs.
We The People must dedicate ourselves to organizing, nationwide, and draining the political sewer that is this Regime and this Congress in 2014 and 2016. That means both Parties.
fyi, Orin Hatch won reelction. He won’t be up again until 2018.
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