Posted on 05/08/2012 3:56:23 PM PDT by mdittmar
INDIANAPOLIS (Reuters) - Senator Richard Lugar appealed to Democrats to cross party lines and vote for him in the Indiana Republican primary on Tuesday, in a last ditch effort to save his 35-year Senate career from a Tea Party backed rival who accuses him of being too supportive of President Barack Obama.
"I've asked very candidly for support from all Hoosiers. Not just Republicans, but Democrats and independents. I'm asking for the Republican Party to expand," Lugar said at his campaign headquarters in Indianapolis on Tuesday, where two dozen volunteers rang a bell each time a voter pledged to vote for the senator.
The defeat of Lugar, one of the most prominent voices on foreign policy in Congress, would be the first loss by a Senate incumbent in the 2012 elections and would mark a major victory for the Tea Party movement to reduce the size of the federal government.
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Figuratively.
Dead wood Lugar is out. They’ve called it for the tea party guy.
Good first news of the day. Hope many more are handed their exit pass.
At least he won’t be leading the Republican charge for the Law of the Sea Treaty ... we just have to wait for fall, when OZero shoves that treaty an dozens more fown out collective throats - turning the entite US over to the UN and European beaurucrats.
thank you to the great state of Indiana! Now for Hatch.
My favorite shadenfreude clip to celebrate Dick Lugar’s retirement.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owzhYNcd4OM
I’ve never completely understood this line.
I’ve never completely understood this line.
G.K. Chesterton
Are you joking? His losing is a perfect warning for all the other republican's currently holding office. If he had just resigned the opportunity would have been lost; heck, the rest of the GOP would have celebrated his legacy and escorted him out of office like some sort of hero.
Buh bye Dick. You RINO POS.
I thought they were going to ratify before the Nov election.
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