You’ve nailed it. Lugar has coasted for so many years that he’s forgotten how to campaign. He’s also surrounded by a senior staff who have been with him for 20-plus years. That, btw, speaks well of him as a senator and a boss; he’s a gentleman, not one of the jerks. As he’s aged, he’s also burrowed more and more into the Foreign Relations Committee, which is fine except that it does nothing for him politically.
George Bush should probably have made him Secretary of State and let someone a generation younger take the seat.
True.. He seems like someone who has a lot of personal class. But he's had some judgment breakdowns, the greatest of which in recent years was that "aye" vote he cast for ratification of "New START" during the nightmarish two months of the 2010 lame-duck session.
“George Bush should probably have made him Secretary of State and let someone a generation younger take the seat.”
Lugar? You must be nuts ( like Peggy Noonan)! It’s thinking like this that has resulted in worthless a$$holes like Lugar overstaying their welcome for at least 25 years. It’s bad enough that Lugar has screwed the State of Indiana, but he’s been screwing the whole country for a generation. I just hope that the voters in Utah don’t think like you and kick that other pud, Urine Hatch out at the same time!