Posted on 02/03/2011 2:53:24 PM PST by blam
This GOP Senator Is Ready To Take Down The Tea Party
Grace Wyler
Feb. 3, 2011, 4:20 PM
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Veteran GOP Senator Richard Lugar of Indiana has thumbed his nose at Tea Party threats. The Hoosier State Republican knows they are coming after his Senate seat in 2012 but he is not going down without a fight.
Lugar, who has served six terms in the Senate, has $2.3 million in his campaign war chest, which likely puts him far ahead of any potential primary challengers. But the 78-year old says he is kicking his fundraising up a notch in preparation for a tough assault from the right.
Indiana State Treasurer Richard Mourdock (R ) is expected to formally launch a challenge against Lugar this weekend, according to Politico. Mourdock recently visited Washington, where he paid his respects to Tea Party kingmaker Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC).
Tea Party groups in the Hoosier State have said they will rally around one candidate to unseat Lugar in the 2012 Republican primary. State Sen. Mike Delph (R ) has also been mentioned as a possible candidate.
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Let's play Hock the Loogie.
Hasn’t Indiana turned a little purple lately?
Hasn’t Indiana turned a little purple lately?
Hey DICK: It’s not a “party” it’s a movement. It won’t go away because you or anybody else wants it to....dick...
I always thought he was channeling Clutch Cargo.
We gotta retire that @$$hole. And I have the unfortunate distinction of having him for my senator.
And no I haven’t voted for him in a long time. I’ve voted for the Libertarian on the ticket. No conservative has ever run against him. And the dems don’t really try. And Lugar himself has essentially been phoning in his campaign the last two elections.
This time, he might actually have to come home and press (or try) the flesh with us mere peasants.
"Judicial nominees
Senator Lugar was the first Republican senator to announce his support for President Barack Obama's first Supreme Court nominee United States Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Sonia Sotomayor...and also voted in favor of his second Supreme Court nominee Solicitor General Elena Kagan."
Thus, I have just written a campaign commercial for whomever in the Tea Party runs against Mister Lugar in the 2012 primary.
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This will be a race with great out-of-state interest and great out-of-state financial support for a capable conservative challenger.
There is no reason why Lugar can’t be defeated in a primary. But, it is vital sore loser laws are in place that prevent him from getting on the ballot any other way, including as a write-in candidate.
The only thing Lugie has the ability “take down” is his trousers whenever obamao say “spread’em”.
Amen ... Lugar should not be buying green bananas, never mind running for a six year term.
That’s the ticket: fight for your precious DC career without bothering to wonder whether the Tea Party might be right.
AMF!
A little birdie told me he will probably flip-flop on his re-election statement.
He’s somebody. After he will be a ‘used to be somebody’. People pretend to listen to him. Afterwords he’ll only be asked if he wants to supersize, or has a senior discount card.
Power. Attention. Status.
It will all be gone. He’ll just be another coupon holding early bird at the pre chewed food restaurant in West Palm.
Lugar thinks that he can buy his senate seat with money. And, in many cases, that is correct. But it is no guarantee. All his money, and many times more doesn’t matter if his constituents don’t vote for him.
So it’s at their level that the Tea Party needs to operate. Just talking to some Hoosiers for a few minutes is worth more than if he handed each of them $500 bills. And once those Hoosiers have had enough of him, it will be the end of his political career, unless some fool appoints him to some job.
You left out Ted Kennedy’s best friend, Orrin Hatch (RINO) of Utah.
Senator Lugar,
Remember that trip to Russia that you and Barry took a few years back? You know, the one where you and Barry were detained at the airport. The Russians even separated you from Barry for a few hours.
Later it was alleged that the reason Barry was detained is because the Russians thought that he was a British spy.
Senator Luger, why would the Russians think that Barry was a British spy when everyone knows that Barry was born in Hawaii?
Barry was born in Hawaii...wasn’t he???
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