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GOP Senator: Tea Party Challenges 'Killed Off' Chances for Republican Majority in Senate
The Blaze ^ | December 25th | Madeleine Morgenstern

Posted on 12/26/2011 6:50:49 AM PST by Halfmanhalfamazing

Edited on 12/26/2011 8:27:25 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]

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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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.

1 posted on 12/26/2011 6:50:51 AM PST by Halfmanhalfamazing
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Political posturing....nothing more.


2 posted on 12/26/2011 6:52:39 AM PST by falcon1966
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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

3 posted on 12/26/2011 6:52:53 AM PST by Halfmanhalfamazing ( Media doesn't report, It advertises. So that last advertisement you just read, what was it worth?)
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To: Halfmanhalfamazing
A total crock from a total RINO!

Etiam non princeps sed usque ad genua, Principis Pacis!
4 posted on 12/26/2011 6:53:26 AM PST by ConorMacNessa (HM/2 USN, 3/5 Marines RVN 1969 - St. Michael the Archangel defend us in Battle!)
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To: Halfmanhalfamazing

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.


5 posted on 12/26/2011 6:55:09 AM PST by GlockThe Vote (The Obama Adminstration: 2nd wave of attacks on America after 9/11)
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To: Halfmanhalfamazing
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.

6 posted on 12/26/2011 6:55:47 AM PST by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: Halfmanhalfamazing

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)


7 posted on 12/26/2011 6:57:05 AM PST by jakerobins
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To: Halfmanhalfamazing

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


8 posted on 12/26/2011 6:57:57 AM PST by jocon307
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To: Halfmanhalfamazing

Shut up Senator Dick!

Who is the primary challenger for this guy?


9 posted on 12/26/2011 6:59:27 AM PST by BallandPowder
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To: Halfmanhalfamazing; Admin Moderator
Duplicate thread.
10 posted on 12/26/2011 7:01:32 AM PST by central_va ( I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Halfmanhalfamazing

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


11 posted on 12/26/2011 7:02:25 AM PST by LibLieSlayer (ONWARD CHRISTIAN SOLDIERS!)
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To: Halfmanhalfamazing

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


12 posted on 12/26/2011 7:03:27 AM PST by RealImmigrant (National Security begins at the Border)
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To: central_va

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

LLS


13 posted on 12/26/2011 7:03:43 AM PST by LibLieSlayer (ONWARD CHRISTIAN SOLDIERS!)
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To: Halfmanhalfamazing

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.


14 posted on 12/26/2011 7:04:04 AM PST by Colonel_Flagg (Why, yes. I AM in a bad mood.)
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To: Halfmanhalfamazing

RINO propaganda fail.

I blame Karl Rove.


15 posted on 12/26/2011 7:05:15 AM PST by Cringing Negativism Network ("FREE TRADERS": Self-loathing Americans)
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To: BallandPowder

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


16 posted on 12/26/2011 7:06:20 AM PST by Halfmanhalfamazing ( Media doesn't report, It advertises. So that last advertisement you just read, what was it worth?)
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To: Halfmanhalfamazing

FUDL!!! Mourdock ‘12!!!


17 posted on 12/26/2011 7:14:49 AM PST by rabscuttle385 (Live Free or Die)
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To: Halfmanhalfamazing
FUDL!

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

18 posted on 12/26/2011 7:19:51 AM PST by depressed in 06 ( Where is the 1984 Apple Super Bowl ad when we need it?)
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To: Halfmanhalfamazing
Tea Party Challenges improve Chances for Conservative Majority in Senate, as for Lugar, Go RINO -Go Democrat, we aren't buying any of it.
19 posted on 12/26/2011 7:20:28 AM PST by Son House (The Economic Boom Heard Around The World => TEA Party 2012)
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To: Halfmanhalfamazing
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!!!!
20 posted on 12/26/2011 7:20:55 AM PST by Sudetenland (Anybody but Obama!!!!)
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