GOP Senator: Tea Party Challenges 'Killed Off' Chances for Republican Majority in Senate

The Blaze ^ | December 25th | Madeleine Morgenstern

[Halfmanhalfamazing]

Sen. Dick Lugar said challenges by Tea Party candidates are partly to blame for the Republicans not having a majority in the Senate.

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“Republicans lost the seats before in Nevada and New Jersey for example and Colorado where there were people who claimed that they wanted somebody who was more of their Tea Party aspect, but in doing so they killed off the Republican chances for majority,” he said. “This is one of the reasons why we have a minority in the Senate right now.”

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[Halfmanhalfamazing]

FUDL!

You and the rest of the establishment don't own our votes! Our votes in favor of republican candidates is NOT a lock.

We vote conservative! And if you republicans lose to our conservatives in the primaries, the more the better! And if you republicans don't have a conservative candidate on the ballot, some of us will stay home.

[falcon1966]

Political posturing....nothing more.

[Halfmanhalfamazing]

These GOP establishment types live in an alternate universe. When the republican candidate loses to the conservative in the primary, what does the establishment do? They go out and undermine the conservative in the general!!! They use the liberal media, they help the democrats, whatever it takes.

GOP Empire's Plan to Crush Tea Party Rebels

[ConorMacNessa]

A total crock from a total RINO!

Etiam non princeps sed usque ad genua, Principis Pacis!

[GlockThe Vote]

FUDL - take Romney / Newt / Huck / McLame /Graham / McConnell and the rest of your incompetent evil gang and go away!

Lugar, McCain, and the rest of these jerks is why we need term limits.

[Vigilanteman]

Hopefully, the TEA party will now kill off Lugar's chances of renewing his lease on his senate seat for another six years.

The natural home of RINOs should be in the Democrat party so they could take control from the Marxists, socialists and Soros stooges which dominate there.

[jakerobins]

Sounds like a variation on Reids “Tea party should learn who really runs things” speech. He’s saying the Tea Partiers should shut up and vote for who ever the Republican Establishment tells them to.....(Pretty Much..You idiots don’t know what your doing...your supposed to vote for Mitt Romney and Republican Senators because they have been around the longest)

[jocon307]

These schumcky-doodles (as we call such kind around here) need to GO AWAY!

[BallandPowder]

Shut up Senator Dick!

Who is the primary challenger for this guy?

[central_va]

Duplicate thread.

[LibLieSlayer]

I am going to donate all that I can to the TEA Party candidate that is going to beat this pos rat lite turd like a drum. I despise loogie and everything that he stands for!

LLS

[RealImmigrant]

Sounds like a Liberal RINO whiner who did not like that the Tea Party tried to move the GOP back towards its conservative base

The GOP lost the Senate because it continues to work against its base. Keep pandering to LaRaza, GOProud, and other groups like that...and soon the GOP will be a filibuster proof minority

[LibLieSlayer]

So what... we should pound this pos in 5,000 threads!

LLS

[Colonel_Flagg]

Senator Lugar, had you spineless RINOs in the Senate simply done what your base asked you to do, there might never have been a Tea Party in the first place.

Now kindly sit down and shut up.

[Cringing Negativism Network]

RINO propaganda fail.

I blame Karl Rove.

[Halfmanhalfamazing]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2825130/posts

[rabscuttle385]

FUDL!!! Mourdock ‘12!!!

[depressed in 06]

FUDL!

Support the TEA Party or be "killed off" Dick Lugar.

[Son House]

Tea Party Challenges improve Chances for Conservative Majority in Senate, as for Lugar, Go RINO -Go Democrat, we aren't buying any of it.

[Sudetenland]

Hey, DICK, what good is a majority if it is comprised of spineless, go-along-to-get-along, establishment weenies like you?

You didn't even try to stop Sotomajor. You didn't even try to stop Kagan. You didn't even try to stop Holder. You didn't even try to stop Napolitano. You spineless weenies didn't try to stop anyone's nomination.

You and your tea-party hating colleagues are just useless RINOs and WE DON'T WANT YOU ANYMORE!!!!