Sen. Kerry accepts the Senator Dick "Forehead" Lugar Award for Senators With Large Foreheads Award.
Lugar would be a formidable opponent in 2012, despite his advancing age (he'll be 80 in 2012). He routinely clobbers his Democratic opponents by huge margins in the general, and probably would have an enormous advantage in organization and funding against any primary challenger.
Still, it's not impossible. Some of Lugar's stances have infuriated conservatives (big supporter of the DREAM Act, for example). And other voters in Indiana might just be ready for a changing of the guard simply because he is such a long-serving incumbent.
Lugar? he is a carbon credit Loon that should be enough,He is dirty with all the Walnut trees and a check of his connection should sink him.
If the “Dream Act” comes up during the Lame Duck Congress and passes — and he WILL vote for it — the Lugar will be extremely vulnerable. In any case, the Tea Party needs to offer Candidates that RUN to the RIGHT of MOST of the mainline Republican Candidates on these issues of Constitutional import. Doing so will remind the Party as a whole that they no longer can rely on Conservative voters by default, and it will certainly DISLODGE many of these old line, old guard country club ruling class elite Republicans who think we somehow OWE them their positions, their power.
No, sir, you all work for US.... And you’re fired...
I’m a Hoosier and Lugar should be put out of office. He is as big a RINO as McCain, Grahamesty, the Maine twins, etc.
I’d like to see him gone just because he came into PA and supported Sestak. Just for that alone he should be hunted down like the RINO he is.
Maybe Pence could not run for POTUS and run for this instead?
80 in 2012? WTF is wrong with these career politicians? Retire already, dude!
This Hoosier is more than ready to have “Dick” retire. Count me in.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/17/lugar-becomes-first-repub_n_237459.html
Lugar Becomes First Republican To Announce Vote For Sotomayor
He was a bit cautious with Kagen... He waited for Lindsay Graham to jump in on that one.
Almost as bad, the only GOPer to vote for this pro-choice Federal Judge:
http://michellemalkin.com/2009/11/19/senate-approves-acornabortion-radical-judge-david-hamilton/
I don’t know that as a prolifer I could vote for him, even if he was running against Jezebel herself! What is the point of saying you are prolife... if you put prochoicers in the judiciary? NONE!
IN Democrats didn’t even field a challenger against Lugar in 2006, so that means it will have been 12 years since he will have faced a real opponent. After that long, incumbents can get sloppy and complacent. He is ripe for defeat in the primary with the right candidate, and after 36 years in the Senate, long overdue.
He’s an old drooling fool!! 80??? 80???? Time for pasture, Dickie.
Where are Larry Bird & Bobby Knight living these days?
Am I missing something here? What’s the basis for the Tea Party connection in the headline?
Dick,
Just keep pushing that sell-out treaty with the Russians a bit more, and you BETTER start shopping for an office on K Street, as you will be BOOTED from Hart before you know what hit you.
Both us AND Russia (assuming that they would even be good to their word) need a few tools in our belts to deal with NK, Iran, and especially CHINA. This is no longer the bipolar world that you spent your career in.
Sen. Kerry accepts the Senator Dick "Forehead" Lugar Award for Senators With Large Foreheads Award.
OK, I’m on board with dumping Lugar.
But...who is the choice to run against him?