Tea party movement might spur challenge for Lugar (RINO Lugar disses Tea Party, backs DREAM Act)

The Indianapolis Star | 2010-11-30 | Mary Beth Schneider

[rabscuttle385]

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[WOBBLY BOB]

We can show him the door

https://senateconservatives.com/site/contribute

[muawiyah]

Lugar's staff handles everything. He spends most of the day adjusting his jacket and tie.

Trust me, it's the same with every Senator over 45 years of age.

[Conservativegreatgrandma]

The time is ripe. Keep the faith but NEVER allow a RAT to take that seat, under any circumstance.

[Falcon28]

Dick Lugar is a “Person of Interest.” Too bad a congressman won’t challenge him-too Washington clubby. It will be a state rep.

I predict Marlin Stutzman will challenge him.

[skeeter]

A quick check shows Indiana isn't among the states that have adopted a recall provision. Too bad.

I'm afraid Indianans will have to exercise their powers of persuasion on the senator.

[OldDeckHand]

"Trust me, it's the same with every Senator over 45 years of age. "

Believe me, I know. I worked on the Hill for three years. What would shock most Americans, and probably most of the people on this forum, is that Congress is actually run by twenty-something staffers, and not by the people we elect.

Still, after 40-years, it's time to let someone else look in the mirror.

[OldDeckHand]

"A quick check shows Indiana isn't among the states that have adopted a recall provision. Too bad."

I'd point out that recall provisions of federal office holders aren't legally enforceable. The Constitution sets the conditions of installation and removal of sitting federal office holders, not the states.

IOW, once someone is installed, the only people who can remove him from office are his Congressional peers. It's a bit of a racket that way.

[skeeter]

Even if recall is not possible somehow it just feels better to say the word.

[OldDeckHand]

"Even if recall is not possible somehow it just feels better to say the word."

I know. If it was possible, there would have been several sitting Dems that would have been extremely vulnerable last month. The Ohio Senator Brown probably would have been toast, and both the VA Senators would have had problems as well. I'm sure there are others.

[hoosierham]

The U.S. was probably better served by Senators chosen by their respective state legislatures,instead of the popularity contests of the past 100 years.

[rmlew]

Why should Lugar fear Indianans on this. You people voted for Dan Coats in the primary.

[BlackElk]

You are right about Richard “Nixon’s Favorite Senator” Lugar. He has been sliming up the GOP caucus for more than a generation now. We in Illinois feel the same way about Mark Nancyboy Kirk who is destined to be Obamao’s favorite “Republican” senator.

[dforest]

Coats is far better than Evan Bayh. At least we didn’t vote like those other “you people” in Arizona and return John McCain to the Senate.

[Crichton]

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.

And was this individual a conservative or liberal?

I would recommend being very skeptical when considering the opinion of an education bureaucrat.

[Antoninus]

Please do. This is one Lugar that needs to be spat right out of Congress.

[Crichton]

Why should Lugar fear Indianans on this. You people voted for Dan Coats in the primary.

Excellent point. With the endorsement of "conservatives" like Mike Pence, to boot. (Mitch Daniels remained neutral.)

If people aren't willing to pick a conservative in an open seat race, what are the odds of beating an incumbent?

Two points about the 2010 primary is that it was a very abbreviated race and the anti-Coats vote was split several ways - but still.

[Darren McCarty]

Lugar is also anti 2nd Amendment.

[Carley]

He was determined to take on the entrenched powers that be who see to it that children aren’t part of the NEA goals.

[Yorktownpatriot]

He’s always been a NWO/UN boot-licker!

[Yorktownpatriot]

He is one turd that needs to be crapped right outta congress!