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Lugar makes last-ditch appeal for support from Indiana Democrats, independents in GOP primary
The Republic ^ | Last Updated: May 04, 2012 - 12:58 pm | TOM LoBIANCO

Posted on 05/04/2012 11:09:32 AM PDT by Red Steel

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Republican Sen. Richard Lugar is asking Democrats and independents to cross party lines and save him next week in the political fight of his life.

The six-term senator said Friday he needs votes from outside his own party if he is to survive Tuesday's GOP primary. Recent polling has shown Lugar trailing tea party-backed state Treasurer Richard Mourdock.

Lugar told reporters he is best suited to represent Jewish and female Hoosiers along with ethnic minorities.

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TOPICS: Extended News; Politics/Elections; US: Indiana
KEYWORDS: dicklugar; lugar
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Dick's Desperate.
1 posted on 05/04/2012 11:09:39 AM PDT by Red Steel
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To: Red Steel

Desperate dicks do stupid things


2 posted on 05/04/2012 11:11:50 AM PDT by reefdiver ("Let His day's be few And another takes His office")
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To: Red Steel

In all seriousness, this is really amazing.


3 posted on 05/04/2012 11:14:11 AM PDT by cuban leaf (Were doomed! Details at eleven.)
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To: reefdiver

What is going on in Dick’s head?


4 posted on 05/04/2012 11:14:58 AM PDT by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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To: Red Steel

Just like Lisa Murkowski and Arlen Specter.

Specter: “I’m simply not going to subject my 29-year record in the United States Senate to that Republican primary electorate.”

God forbid the people who sustain you in office decide to throw you out of it!


5 posted on 05/04/2012 11:18:19 AM PDT by cotton1706
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“The pro-labor Lunch Pail Republicans endorsed Lugar this week and former Ronald Reagan speechwriter Peggy Noonan pleaded with voters to return Lugar to the Senate.”

I think that says it all, does it not?


6 posted on 05/04/2012 11:21:17 AM PDT by nikos1121
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To: Red Steel

Are you sure this isn’t from John Semmens or The Onion? What a pathetic way for a six-term Senator to act.


7 posted on 05/04/2012 11:22:03 AM PDT by Night Hides Not (My dream ticket for 2012 is John Galt & Dagny Taggart!)
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To: Red Steel

I donated to make him unemployed. FOAD loogie... you rat bastard!

LLS


8 posted on 05/04/2012 11:28:33 AM PDT by LibLieSlayer (Pray hard and often!)
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To: Red Steel

” Lugar told reporters he is best suited to represent Jewish and female Hoosiers along with ethnic minorities.”

and homos & lezbos & illegal immigrants & .......New World Orderlies.....and......


9 posted on 05/04/2012 11:32:58 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (God, family, country, mom, apple pie, the girl next door and a Ford F250 to pull my boat.)
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To: Red Steel

-—Recent polling has shown Lugar trailing tea party-backed state Treasurer Richard Mourdock.-—

I thought the Tea Party was dead. Hehehehehe...


10 posted on 05/04/2012 11:35:12 AM PDT by St_Thomas_Aquinas (Viva Christo Rey!)
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To: Red Steel

SOP for GOP-e.


11 posted on 05/04/2012 11:35:12 AM PDT by Bratch
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Peggy's sold out long, long ago.

She adds to the disdain for any "independent woman with a brain" as she's driven clearly by her ideology (aka liberal, pro-abort, pro-gay, semi-religious thought.)

12 posted on 05/04/2012 11:35:20 AM PDT by zerosix (native sunflower)
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To: Kartographer

This kind of stuff will make you rub your.... oh, never mind.


13 posted on 05/04/2012 11:37:00 AM PDT by FreeAtlanta (Liberty and Justice for ALL)
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To: Red Steel

Lugar wants to ban Lugars!! Kick him out!!


14 posted on 05/04/2012 11:40:05 AM PDT by BobinIL
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To: nikos1121

Yes it does say it all. Peggy Noonan’s fallen in with the crowd that says that we need to protect every incumbent republican so we can regain the majority.

We protected Jim Jeffords, he stabbed us in the back and gave control to the democrats in 2001.

We protected Lincoln Chafee, he stabbed us in the back many times over

We protected Arlen Specter, he stabbed us in the back by blocking conservative judges, voting for Obama’s stimulus and finally bolting the party when he didn’t get his way.

We refused to protect Lisa Murkowski, she stabbed us in the back by running a write-in campaign and getting democrats to vote for her in the general to successfully defeat the conservative.

We refused to support Charlie Crist, he quickly changed his tune, became the liberal he always was, and unsuccessfully ran as an independent to try to defeat the conservative.

We refused to support Dede Scozzafava, she stabbed republicans in the back by dropping out and supporting the democrat.

And on...and on. We’re done with Peggy Noonan’s mentality.


15 posted on 05/04/2012 11:40:11 AM PDT by cotton1706
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What is next? Turning like McCain for help from LaRaza? What else? The Soviet Union and Bin Laden if he does not get the amount of votes?

You got to love these RINOs, they are just like Democrates.


16 posted on 05/04/2012 11:41:59 AM PDT by JudgemAll (Democrats Fed. job-security Whorocracy & hate:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucified)
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To: Red Steel

Retire the RINO’s, one by one...make sure the young’uns stay true.


17 posted on 05/04/2012 11:44:43 AM PDT by AD from SpringBay (We deserve the government we allow.)
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To: Red Steel

Lugar has been one of the “sainted ones” for so long, his campaigning skills have atrophied.

He, like so many other entrenched senators, is simply unused to having to go fight for his job.


18 posted on 05/04/2012 11:53:06 AM PDT by ScottinVA (Buying Drain-O requires photo I.D... so should voting!)
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Specter: “I’m simply not going to subject my 29-year record in the United States Senate to that Republican primary electorate.”

"Instead, I choose to subject my 29-year record in the United States Senate to the Democrat primary electorate.... and proceed to get my azz handed to me to some guy named Joe Sestak.”

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!

19 posted on 05/04/2012 11:58:38 AM PDT by ScottinVA (Buying Drain-O requires photo I.D... so should voting!)
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To: cotton1706

‘And on...and on. We’re done with Peggy Noonan’s mentality.’

Oh, I dont think this mind set has run its course. There’s this guy named Romney...


20 posted on 05/04/2012 12:02:33 PM PDT by 556x45
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