GOP senator (Lugar) says Tea Party challenges 'killed off' efforts at Republican majority

The Hill ^ | 12/25/11 | Meghashyam Mali

[Qbert]

One of many RINOs who needs to be shown the door.

[DeaconRed]

Lugar knows NOTHING. . . . . . NOTHING

[jessduntno]

Who cares if there is a Grand Old Potty majority if half of them vote with the Dems? Idiot.

We need a Conservative Party.

[DIRTYSECRET]

HE’S 100 years old! Time to ‘spend more time with the other dinasours.’

[circlecity]

With RINOs like Lugar what good would a Republican majority have accomplished?

[ADSUM]

Hey Lugar! It is not about Republican control! It is about doing the right thing and stop the excess excess spending and limiting government. Reduce government back to 15% of economy and pay off the debt.

Let the Tea Party with the true conservative Americans show you how to tame the government.

[Vaduz]

Indeed just another member of the good old boy RINO club.

[NormsRevenge]

another incumbent that went soft on the job

[muddler]

What I told lugar a few days ago,

FUDL!!!

[DIRTYSECRET]

When is the Indiana primary?

[backwoods-engineer]

Power-hungry jerks like Lugar are willing to sacrifice the election to Obama just so they can get their Senate chairmanships back. Given that they just LOVED Castle, they would probably support the re-election of AlGore to the Senate if he had an (R) by his name.

Sickening.

Merry Christmas. We're screwed.

[sinanju]

You...you ungrateful peasants!

How dare you throw your weight around at your betters.

That said, I wonder how many false flag Dem plants have run as Tea Partiers. I know the Dems have been trying this trick but it tends to be laughably obvious when they do.

[RobbyS]

People like Lugar make the adoption of Democratic policies inevitable. They compromise by giving the Dims a third of what they want now, a third, tomorrow , and a third the following day.

[o2bfree]

This old socialist Lugar has done a huge disservice to this country’s future. Lugar has spent Trillions and Trillions of Dollars and racked up huge debts to foreign nations. We can’t pay our bills now. We can’t keep our military strong anymore thanks to Lugar. What a complete liberal failure Lugar has become.

[EGPWS]

Sen. Dick Lugar (Ind.) facing a primary contest from the right in his reelection bid said past Tea Party-backed challenges had “killed off” Republican efforts to take the Senate in the past and could undermine a GOP majority again in 2012.

GOOD!

We need conservatism NOT Republicanism anyway!

[freekitty]

Exactly.

[hinckley buzzard]

We gave the republicans a senate majority and they squandered the chance to do anything substantial. They grew fat, arrogant, and complacent and were content to schmooze with the 'rats and divide up the loot. Lugar, you and your cronies had your chance and you blew it. Now step aside.

[Grunthor]

It’s getting just about to open warfare on these pukes.

2012....RINO season.

And if they force Romney upon us....How about a TEA Party candidate to challenge him?

[Qbert]

"With RINOs like Lugar what good would a Republican majority have accomplished?"

Exactly. And even if they had the majority... then they would make excuses about how they can't do anything because they don't have the presidency. And even if they had the majority and the presidency... then they would make excuses that they don't have a supermajority. And even if...

[muawiyah]

Lugar is hardly a RINO. In fact, if you go back in time to where his latest memories and policy positions may be found he is quite consistent with Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan and other Republican party stalwarts.

His problem here is he did not grow with tenure ~ he just kind of estivated.

The guy isn't even reliably Leftwingtard.

What he should do is take his billions of dollars and retire ~ well, that, and see a head doctor. He's nuts.