Posted on 05/09/2012 6:32:03 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Not only did Tea Party-backed Richard Mourdock just put an end to Indiana Sen. Richard Lugar's 35-year U.S. Senate career, but it wasn't even close. NBC projected Mourdock, the Indiana state treasurer, the winner of the Republican primary shortly after polls closed, as he was trouncing Lugar by over 20 points. In and of itself, the crushing defeat of such a long-time veteran of the Senate would be a big story, but the importance of this development will be felt way beyond Indiana.
As I wrote earlier this week, a lot of pundits have been prematurely writing the obituary to the Tea Party, but Mourdock's victory demonstrates that the movement still has a lot of power. Tea Party activists will be tested again in Texas, where they hope to nominate Ted Cruz and Utah, where they hope to dump veteran Sen. Orrin Hatch in favor of conservative Dan Liljenquist.
Mourdock's victory not only means that this particular Senate seat is likely to be more conservative (assuming he goes on to win the general election in this traditionally red state), but it also puts Republican Senators everywhere on notice that no seat is safe anywhere in the country. Any elected Republican that doesn't pursue a small government agenda once in office risks suffering the same fate as Lugar. Had Lugar hung on, then a lot of people would have dismissed the Tea Party as a passing fad from 2010. But now it's clear that the movement has been underestimated once again. Tea Partiers have a lot more staying power than skeptics expected.
With the Republican presidential nomination going to the ideologically malleable Mitt Romney, supporters of limited government have recognized that their best hope for advancing the conservative agenda rests on the ability to elect as many principled conservatives to Congress as possible. That is, lawmakers who will be willing to fight for smaller government even if it means standing up to a president of their own party. The more victories the Tea Party racks up, the greater the chance that Romney will be forced to govern as a limited government conservative if elected, even if his natural inclination is to migrate to the left.
You have your opinion, I have mine.
Leni
Sad that you support Obama.
“You have your opinion, I have mine.”
Sorry, there is objective truth here.
I don’t know the difference between a mormon and a baptist or catholic, and I don’t care. All denominations of Christianity are pretty much the same from the Jewish perspective.
I despise Romney because he is a liar, spread filthy lies about other candidates, and was not man enough to admit he was behind the smears.
Romney is a gun-grabber, abortion-pusher, big government socialist.
The fact that you think the opposition to a loser like Romney has to do with his denomination makes you the equivalent of the losers who think all opposition to Obama is racist.
Well said.
You fit the definition of a philistine - negating originality in the arts. And your analogy doesn’t work, even on your own terms - houses are built based on what was done before, yet houses and land are passed down from generation to generation in perpetuity.
As for taxes, the copyright would be like an heirloom - one doesn’t pay yearly taxes on the jewelry, furniture, paintings or books one has inherited from a grandmother.
I also hope Conservatives come together as Newt has said and support Romney against Obama. We MUST keep the House, take back the Senate, and make sure the Marxist is out of our White House!
I for one will be doing everything I can to see that our Sunshine state goes solid Republican! :)
Stop that gop garbage about obama... I will not vote for obama and to paint ABO as ANYBODY BUT OBAMA... is just a leftist styled alinsky attack. Think about it. I am not telling you what to do... but I will not stop telling the truth about that leftwing, progressive, gun grabbing, baby killing, pro gay marriage, pro amnesty, “I was never part of the Reagan Revolution... I never believed in it”, big government liar and science fiction cultist.
LLS
Fine, defeat Obama with control of both the House and Senate where you are bound to find real conservatives. That RINO Romney is not a conservative and is pretty much Obama-lite. He'll have to win this election without my support.
An heirloom brooch,book, or chair isn’t a constant source of revenue like a copyright or patent! So your analogy fails .And just sitting on a copyright or patent so no one can benefit is pointless,if not morally wrong.
Houses are passed down with the government collecting taxes every year and often more taxes when the house is passed down.
You sound like a leftist invoking the morality of forced sharing. The only moral issue here is the morality of property ownership, and if the owner, or the owner’s heirs, choose to sit on it - by, say, not allowing a great work of literature to be turned into Disney cartoons, or a movie starring Jennifer Lopez - that is their right.
You sound like a leftist invoking the morality of forced sharing. The only moral issue here is the morality of property ownership, and if the owner, or the owner’s heirs, choose to sit on it - by, say, not allowing a great work of literature to be turned into Disney cartoons, or a movie starring Jennifer Lopez - that is their right.
The NRA and the NRLC and the Club for Growth disagree with you.
Limbaugh, Levin and Hannity disagree with you.
But, you still have every right to your minority opinion.
woo hoo - go Obama !!
MMMM mmmm mmmm
So I suppose the founders of this nation were philistines and believers in forced sharing ,because,after all, LIMITED time for patents and copyrights was the norm from 1787 until 1976 !By the way we have had forced sharing from the beginning of civilization;it is usually referred to as taxes.
As for a great work being ruined by being turned into a Disney production;NEWS flash ,Disney feared loss of revenue when all their “great works” became public domain as EVERY OTHER work had been doing for centuries.
I guess you think we should still be paying royalties to the descendants of the first man to put a wheel on an axle ?
Too many “artists” over-rate their own importance to the world.
As for Hatch ,I wish he had been more successful as n artist so he would not be a Senator!
And too bad more people didn’t see that Hitler became a successful painter.
THese frustrated artists telling the rest of us how to live are a pain!
You are not only wrong but you are so obviously wrong. You are a republican first... win at any cost gop/e drone.
LLS
So it is not patents but only copyrights to “works of art” that concern you?
Well ,again,I and all the other philistines ,say NOTHING was created in a vacumn since God Almighty made the universe.All your works of art draw from the entire history of human experience ,like it or not,and while people have usually been willing to reward artists to some degree,only a very few would presume to give or want a free ride in perpetuity.
I am FIRMLY convinced the old patent and copyright laws time limits were,and still are,appropiate,even though they have now been extended to ,in my opinion and lots of people’s, ridiculous lengths.
Since Hatch was an important figure and promoter of those changes ,it is one of my reasons to wish him a quiet retirement beginning November 2012.
You do not know what you are talking about.
I have made a name for myself fighting for the most conservative candidates in Kansas, for several years.
However?
I like to win general elections, as well as primaries.
Your “method” of ticking everyone off, and insulting everyone, will POISON any candidate that you support, if any candidate you support is ever lucky enough to win a primary.
Again, it is the leftists and philistines (but I repeat myself) who use the “nothing in a vacuum” argument to deny artistic merit, integrity, and even to negate the very concept of the individual.
You clearly have no background or knowledge in the arts or art history - not a crime - you may be a great person, and I have met some highly cultured people who are not good people - but it seems pointless to.discuss this further with you.
I met Hatch under circumstances where I thought he behaved intelligently and courageously and sensitively - and that was before I knew anything about his position on copyright.
LLS
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