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Former Sen. Dick Lugar Becomes First Republican To Support Obama Nuke Deal
Breibart ^ | 8/21/2015 | Thomas Rose

Posted on 08/21/2015 10:12:15 AM PDT by nikos1121

Former Indiana Senator Richard G. Lugar became the first high profile Republican this week to endorse President Obama’s hugely controversial nuclear deal with Iran’s revolutionary Islamic government. If Congress is unable to override an expected presidential veto, in addition to $150 billion in immediate sanctions relief, the deal will guarantee the same radical Iranian regime that openly calls for the annihilation of an entire nation state both the legal right and practical ability to develop an industrial scale nuclear weapons infrastructure along with the intercontinental ballistic missile systems necessary to deliver nuclear payloads anywhere on earth. Speaking on MSNBC, the 83-year-old former chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee praised the Iran deal as the “best available option” for restraining the world’s foremost terror supporting state. Exactly how it would restrain Iran, the voter-retired senator did not say. Lugar’s comments, together with an op-ed co-written with former Democrat Senator J. Bennett Johnston, praised Obama’s deal and harshly attacked Democratic Senator Sen. Charles Schumer (D-NY) 2% for being the first Democrat to break with the President. By becoming the first Republican figure to openly endorse a deal opposed by a large majority of American, and universally rejected by every single elected member of Lugar’s own Republican party, the octogenarian Hoosier continues his career practice of espousing foreign policy positions nearly identical to those promoted by America’s left-leaning foreign policy establishment clique. Lugar, warmly referred to as “Obama’s’ favorite senator” by the mainstream press, first rose to national attention in the late 1960’s when, as Mayor of Indianapolis, Lugar became known as Richard Nixon’s “favorite mayor.”

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To: nikos1121

Of course he is.
This is why we bounced his cracked RINO butt.
Are you listening Arizona & South Carolina?


21 posted on 08/21/2015 10:30:17 AM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: Dr. Thorne
Thank God this decrepit fool is out of the Senate.

And thank Lugar for reminding us why.

22 posted on 08/21/2015 10:33:43 AM PDT by Paine in the Neck (Socialism consumes EVERYTHING)
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To: nikos1121
Former Indiana Senator Richard G. Lugar became the first high profile Republican this week to endorse President Obama’s hugely controversial nuclear deal with Iran’s revolutionary Islamic government.

Looks like o's got the senile vote..

23 posted on 08/21/2015 10:35:04 AM PDT by BerniesFriend (I am BerniesFriend, however it's really Bernadette, NOT Bernie Sanders friend!!!!!!!)
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To: nikos1121
Nit Wit...
24 posted on 08/21/2015 10:40:32 AM PDT by BigEdLB (They need to target the 'Ministry of Virtue' which has nothing to do with virtue.)
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To: nikos1121

FORMER! Blackmail makes for some strange bedfellows including some “known” by 0


25 posted on 08/21/2015 10:46:00 AM PDT by hoosiermama
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To: nikos1121

Has he even read it yet?


26 posted on 08/21/2015 10:46:51 AM PDT by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
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To: Cowboy Bob

A Dick he is!


27 posted on 08/21/2015 10:48:48 AM PDT by angcat
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To: Uncle Miltie

At my former job, I hired a bright young man for one of my managers. He was 2 years out of college with his Master’s Degree and he was an intern for former Senator Lugar. He always spoke highly of him, however I never missed an opportunity to rip him as the RINO he was and the fact that Lugar didn’t live in Indiana. I think I got through to him as he is slowly coming around to Cruz (started out as a Rubio guy). I asked him who is folks are supporting (his dad is a big laywer in Boise) and he said Cruz too. He at 26 is definitely not a libtard though so that is encouraging.


28 posted on 08/21/2015 10:50:32 AM PDT by shotgun
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To: nikos1121

“Republican foreign policy expert Richard Lugar.”

That’s what the MSM called him for years while he was in the Senate. Never seemed like an expert to me and now he’s confirming it further during his retirement.


29 posted on 08/21/2015 10:51:12 AM PDT by Will88
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
Exactly how it would restrain Iran, the voter-retired senator did not say. Lugar's comments, together with an op-ed co-written with former Democrat Senator J. Bennett Johnston, praised Obama's deal and harshly attacked Democratic Senator Sen. Charles Schumer (D-NY) 2% for being the first Democrat to break with the President. By becoming the first Republican figure to openly endorse a deal opposed by a large majority of American, and universally rejected by every single elected member of Lugar's own Republican party, the octogenarian Hoosier continues his career practice of espousing foreign policy positions nearly identical to those promoted by America's left-leaning foreign policy establishment clique.

30 posted on 08/21/2015 10:57:19 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW)
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To: nikos1121

Who? (Another pathetic bid for attention from a resident of the Old RINO Graveyard)


31 posted on 08/21/2015 10:58:04 AM PDT by txrefugee
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To: nikos1121

He was always a sell out - represented the good folks of Indiana POORLY. Just like McCain for Arizonians.


32 posted on 08/21/2015 11:04:51 AM PDT by shalom aleichem
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To: nikos1121

What a dick...


33 posted on 08/21/2015 11:11:36 AM PDT by WayneS (Yeah, it's probably sarcasm...)
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To: nikos1121

The best they can find is a former no name Senator? Wow. Just WOW!


34 posted on 08/21/2015 11:18:29 AM PDT by DrDude (Does anyone have a set of balls anymore?)
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To: WayneS

More like Dick-less.


35 posted on 08/21/2015 11:19:43 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: nikos1121

Vote GOPe and you get worthless hacks like Dick Lugar.

Vote NO! on the GOPe!


36 posted on 08/21/2015 11:28:39 AM PDT by TTFlyer
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To: SunkenCiv
It's politicians like Lugar who are going to get us all planted under the grass.
37 posted on 08/21/2015 11:51:45 AM PDT by Mr Apple
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To: nikos1121
Former Sen. Dick Lugar Becomes First Republican To Support Obama Nuke Deal

Lugar sells his vote much cheaper than the other crooked politicos, so he is the first RINO to sellout the Country.

38 posted on 08/21/2015 11:57:33 AM PDT by The Sons of Liberty (America for Americans - what's wrong with that?)
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To: nikos1121

High profile Republican my a$$.....nothing but a washed up has been!!!


39 posted on 08/21/2015 11:58:12 AM PDT by ontap
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To: nikos1121

the stupid party strikes again.

i know he’s not in congress anymore, but he is the perfect example of republicans who speak up to give aid and comfort to our enemies (iran and obama) when it’s better to not have said anything at all.


40 posted on 08/21/2015 12:04:01 PM PDT by TangibleDisgust ("To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize." - Voltaire)
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