Posted on 12/20/2010 5:13:09 AM PST by Clintonfatigued
Indiana state Sen. Mike Delph (R), the man some conservative activists in the state are courting to primary Sen. Dick Lugar (R-Ind.) in 2012, says he already has the attention of national Republicans.
In an interview, Delph told The Ballot Box that his very public flirtation with a potential run against Lugar in a Republican primary has attracted the notice of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, although he hasn't exactly heard from the committee just yet.
"I've already been told the NRSC is Googling my name," said Delph, who claimed that a local Indiana blogger told him he had tracked IP addresses on his blog back to the committee's Washington headquarters. "So they're doing their research and trying to find out about me."
The NRSC declined to comment on the Web-browsing habits of staffers, but even if Delph doesn't yet have the committee's attention, he's one of a handful of candidates who have Tea Party activists in the state buzzing as Lugar has quickly become one of the group's top 2012 targets.
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Lugar is about 100 yrs old!! He needs to be retired!!
If Delph runs, he will likely have my support. I just hope that conservatives don’t divide the anti-establishment vote like they did in Indiana this year.
Bump! Lugar needs to go but I think he’ll stick around forever like Robert Bird did.
Are we beginning to understand how many factions within the GOP Michael Steele had to deal with?
He's a good and honorable man, but he has been poisoned by the Washington establishment. It's time to send him home.That sure is a common disease. I wonder if we'll ever have a vaccine to prevent that disease.
Delph better watch out. Depends on weather the NRSC has him “in” their sights or they are just looking at him.
Lugar’s been poisoned for decades. He is even worse than our typical RINOs Snowe and Collins.
I’ll vote for anyone that runs against Lugar. Indiana sure can’t do much worse. Hell, Bayh is better that Lugar sometimes.
He should join Kit Bond who also overstayed his time in DC.
The saying goes power corrupts and absolute power corrubts absolutely.
The best example is Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos. They were the darlings of the people. He was decorated and worshiped war hero. She was a world class beauty. They were Camelot SW Pac. They went to Malacañang Palace in Palm Sunday like glory and were gradually corrupted and finally deposed in disgrace.
Lugar is perhaps similar but not to the ultimate degree.
Like you, I’m old enough to have seen many good people elected, sent to Washington and then corrupted by the ‘establishment.’ Potomac Fever, I think it’s called.
Good example.
And a good ongoing task for the various tea parties: monitor the level of corruption of the “good” people.
The real power is in the hands of staffers and Federal agencies. Elected officials get old and lazy. Check the ages of the current Senators:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_current_United_States_Senators_by_age
Resembles a senior citizens’ retirement home. Let the help do the work while they chat, watch TV, play cards and talk about ‘the good old days’.
This POS has been working with obama since day one.
Lugar lost me as soon as I found out he supported Baker in 1980; that says it all.
He's a good and honorable man, but he has been poisoned by the Washington establishment. It's time to send him home.
My take is with you, #7, #13, et al.
This sickness has got to be declared and exposed. Along with the fact that its breeding ground is that Washington DC, through government police authority, has gained far far too much power and money to begin with. Hence it is just going to attract, hold, and manifest, rotted power mongers like flypaper.
Thus the Tea Party.
Contrast this revelation with the so-called "Progressives" who would support Robert Byrd, Teddy Kennedy, Barbara Boxer, Feinstein, etc. like sycophants to a dictator. What a joke. George Soros is the vector.
I thought Michael Steele was a faction.
You are exactly right. We're not going to clean up Washington until we clean up that mess. I understand they already have their hooks into the new tea party members.
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