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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Of course he is.
This is why we bounced his cracked RINO butt.
Are you listening Arizona & South Carolina?
And thank Lugar for reminding us why.
Looks like o's got the senile vote..
FORMER! Blackmail makes for some strange bedfellows including some “known” by 0
Has he even read it yet?
A Dick he is!
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.
“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.
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.
Who? (Another pathetic bid for attention from a resident of the Old RINO Graveyard)
He was always a sell out - represented the good folks of Indiana POORLY. Just like McCain for Arizonians.
What a dick...
The best they can find is a former no name Senator? Wow. Just WOW!
More like Dick-less.
Vote GOPe and you get worthless hacks like Dick Lugar.
Vote NO! on the GOPe!
Lugar sells his vote much cheaper than the other crooked politicos, so he is the first RINO to sellout the Country.
High profile Republican my a$$.....nothing but a washed up has been!!!
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.
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