Posted on 12/01/2010 3:55:32 AM PST by rabscuttle385
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While the Indiana governor acts like he’d be a great presidential candidate I have a totally different opinion.
Yesterday we watched a program with various public school commissioners discussing the initiatives taken by their state to improve the quality of education.
To hear the man from Indiana discuss that state was quite an eye opener. He considered their public school system a total disaster.
The gov can strut around like a bantam rooster but he has nothing to his credit, IMO.
Flame away!
Given the way Indiana has righted itself it is very clear that Lugar is done for.
When in high school I tried several times (when drinking) to call you collect.
You never accepted my calls?
Is their a Recall Process in Indiana - Why wait till 2012, if the people of Indiana have the ability to recall this POS. Then do it.
Put him in a room with his namesake and one bullet. Make this easy on the voters.
I dont think you can recall a senator.
Lugar has had a lengthy and impressive career. Time for him to “spend time with the grandkids”.
Retire or be retired.
Primary his butt out
Thats not entirely true. AZ basically has an open primary, which allows independents to vote in GOP primaries.
Thats why McCain got re-elected. Or at least nominated, which lead to his re-election.
Dick Lugar before he dicks you.
What you need to do is get Lugar out of there now. The man is obviously senile and living in a totally different age where he imagines the agricultural sector in Indiana still needs guys to pick beans by hand.
Fact is the bean growers probably do have better access to Lugar than most members of his constituency, but they don't need the bean pickers unless there's late season rain and the fields are muddy. Otherwise they are some of America's wealthiest farmers ~ with fine contracts with Mexican and Puerto Rican bean packers.
NOTE: about 90% of the US fancy bean crop is under contract with Mexican bean marketers. In Mexico 90% of all protein derives from fancy beans. This is one of the tightest co-dependency situations between any two nations on Earth. The Rubber Meets The Road in Indiana, Illinois, Arkansas and Tennessee when it comes to fancy beans. These guys usually have 8 members of the Senate bought and paid for at any one time.
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I'd take a good look at what that "one guy"'s relationship has been with the NEA in the past. Most professional "educators", like that "one guy" continue to mouth the NEA mantra no matter how far they've advanced in that business.
It's really pitiful.
BTW, I have found, though, in digging through statistical reports, that public schools in Indiana with substantial African-American presence usually have low scores ~ just like everywhere else.
If you have a solution to this problem let us hear about it.
Down with Lugar. Commie Mole.
Lugar moved to the left of Evan Bayh yesterday by voting against the ban on earmarks.
Bayh has moved pretty far right after he decided not to run again. In short, once he could tell Harry to stuff it without fear of repercussions.
Gotta wonder why a peon from Nevada that got ~30K more votes than a losing candidate from South Carolina (Green) got has so much power...
Well, then, he goes on “The List”. Take him out, politically. Time to field, right now, a GOP challenger, who is articulate, experienced and the money can be raised starting NOW.
It may not have been the deciding factor but you have to admit-—he really did the “Reagan conservative” bit up brown.
It was hard for loyal conservatives to buy, given McCain’s record, so it figures that Independents did the trick for him.
I know about open primaries-—I’m from Georgia. We used to vote for all kinds of squirrely candidates on the Dem side just to create problems...in ‘92 I voted for Clinton because I regarded him as a ridiculous character who could never win a general election. Hard lesson, that one.
Lugar doesn’t like uppity Tea Party Riff Raff and some other old GOP ‘Dons’ don’t either. They need to go.
Dick Lugar is a “Person of Interest.” Too bad a congressman won’t challenge him-too Washington clubby. It will be a state rep.
Tea party movement might spur challenge for Lugar
[b] MIGHT???!?!?!?!??!!???? [/b]
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