“This is GREAT news — but you do realize, of course, that the Republican Establishment will do everything in their power to make sure this seat goes Democrat. They did that in 2010 and in races before that.”
The irony of this fact is that when Conservatives talk about doing the SAME THING in response to being handed Romney as a candidate, Conservatives are traitors. Try starting a thread that talks about NOT VOTING for Romney, but voting GOP down ticket and you’ll get all kinds of histrionics about how it will ‘destroy the republic’.
When establishment Republicans used dollars we donate in order to ELECT DEMOCRATS in races where Conservatives beat the Republican, well that’s just hard-ball politics.
Peggy Noonan was crying in the paper last week about keeping Lugar because he could work across the aisle.
Peggy, its not a compromise when one side does all the giving. Conservatives have been the battered wife in its relationship with the GOP, and with Democrats, for the last 30 years. At one point, if you are the abuser, you are going to wake up with the abused stratling your body and pointing a gun in your face.
It’s funny, being shot at that range is a relatively quiet experience. You are dead before your ears can send the information to your brain. When the shot came for Lugar, he’d been redistricted, he may or may not have still had a house in Indiana, and he actually forgot how to run in a primary. He had so taken his Dukedom for granted that he never even bothered with the pleasantries any more.
It was a good scam for both Lugar and Hatch while it lasted. When you are in for 35 years, you aren’t serving anybody but yourself at that point. He’ll take that fat-ass pension and his platinum-plated medical plan with him into his 90’s, I would think. Peggy’s going to shake her head and cry a little.
The 80’s are over, Peggy. Wake up and look at what we are passing on to our kids and tell me a 35 year veteran of the Senate shouldn’t answer for some of it?
I am borrowing your post:) you are right on