Posted on 05/08/2012 12:38:54 PM PDT by tcrlaf
If Indiana Senator Dick Lugar loses his Republican primary race to Tea Party challenger Richard Mourdock tonight, as polls indicate is likely, his defeat will signal the end of moderate Republican internationalism in the US Senate and the GOP more broadly.
Lugar, a two time chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee best known for his work on arms control and nonproliferation treaties, used to be one of the GOP’s leading figures on foreign policy. Now he’s an outlier.
The Senate Republican caucus was once filled with the likes of Dick Lugar—sensible realists such as Lincoln Chafee, Chuck Hagel, George Voinovich and Olympia Snowe. Now they’re all gone or going, casualties of a Republican party where diplomacy, multilateralism and bipartisanship are dirty words. (A Mourdock ad called Lugar “Obama’s favorite Republican.”)
(Excerpt) Read more at thenation.com ...
Bob Beckel shed a lot of tears for loss of Lugar in senate on THE FIVE show today...tells you everything!
I'm surprised you didn't correct that erratum. We both know that the library wasn't the "chamber" Rocky was in when he had his fatal heart attack. IIRC, he was going back and forth between two "chambers" when it happened.
Yikes, I better postpone my dinner by another hour!
Hmmm, good one. Why don't you park it over here, and leave the keys in it?
;)
When I die, I want to go out with a smile on my face, like Nelson Rockefeller...not crying, screaming and gasping for breath like Megan Marshack.
Moderate (RINO) Republicans won’t be dead until we finally drive a stake through each of their hearts! Til then they’ll be sucking the life’s blood from the neck’s of the American people with their buddies in the Democrat Party....two vampires on one straw!
LOL I had to look her up. She apparently is still alive and living in New York.
I don't know this race but it would not be good to see a moderate (i.e. RINO) Republican replaced by a real Democrat. Not trying to throw cold water on the party, but I do want to get answers to that question.
Add Eric Canter right along w/him (David Dreyer, CA and many, many others in the House.)
What the author is really lamenting is the passing of the time when his side could be intractable, fervently tribal, and ideologically radical and still manage to con the other side into compromise with the "reward" of an occasional kind word in the media and a certain dagger in the back should a labeled Democrat begin to look electable. What the author means by "moderate" is "sucker".
Was Blue Dog Democrat. 0bama ate me.
Cheers,
OLA
Next up - Orrin Hatch.
Down the Hatch !!!
With 88% of the vote in Mourdock leads Lugar 61-39 - which it has been all night - a Rino ass-kickin’.
The polls here in Indiana have had Lugar down 5 to 10 points. How does that happen - the polls weren’t even close ..... ???
I have a feeling we’d all throw up if we knew what perks they REALLY get. It seems they’ll do anything to stay in office. Even when they’re damned close to the grave.
I recall three different stories (location, accompanying persons, activity) were broadcast on the radio within a half hour, before the 'official' version became official.
I had a date that night, and I still remember her looking at me and saying, " Well, that story sure changed, didn't it?"
If you read the entire article, it’s clear the writer is a crack-ingesting oxygen thief.
Elect him the the U.S. Senate.
How about "political pollster" as an anagram for "lyin' MF"? (You have to drop the "g" or it doesn't work. -- ;) )
Someone commented a couple of days ago that the Indianapolis Star, which is usually conservative (so much so that they get scoffed at and abused a lot by JournoListers from "swave, debone-air, cosmopolitan" states like Ohio), was in the tank for Dick Lugar. Guess so, since even their polls lied like a dog on a rug.
Yeah -- they "grow". Like mushrooms, and for the same reason.
That's odd, as Obama also called Lugar his favorite Republican too.
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