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Tea Party candidate defeats Dick Lugar

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Dick Whitman, May 9, 2012.

  1. Bubbler

    Bubbler Well-Known Member

    I'm no Republican, but it's supremely sad that the state's GOP voters didn't show some loyalty to a man who has served Indiana with dignity, regardless of his street address.
     
  2. TigerVols

    TigerVols Well-Known Member

    Amen. Anyone in either party running for a 6-year post at the age of 80 is an insulting the voters.
     
  3. Stoney

    Stoney Well-Known Member

    Forget about his age and the address bullshit, the centrist thing is the reason Lugar lost. He was targeted by the national tea party movement purely because he represents an old school (and approaching extinction) moderate brand of Republican that has no patience for the red-faced tea party screamers, doesn't regard all democrats as inherently evil, and is willing to cross the aisle and occasionally even compromise to get things done in a grown up manner. Worst thing that ever happened to Lugar was Obama praising him--that's when his own party started targeting his ass.
     
  4. Mark2010

    Mark2010 Active Member

    Score one for the democrats!
     
  5. Greenhorn

    Greenhorn Active Member

    The Tea Party mindset that doomed Lugar is why they never, ever praise or mention Eisenhower even though he is a far more important historical figure than Reagan.
     
  6. YankeeFan

    YankeeFan Well-Known Member

    Yeah, it's so sad that Dick Lugar will be limited to 36 years in the Senate, and won't be able to serve until his 86th birthday.
     
  7. Bob Cook

    Bob Cook Active Member

    Richard Lugar at 86 > Richard Mourkoch at any age
     
  8. Stoney

    Stoney Well-Known Member

    It's not sad for Lugar, maybe he had gotten too old.

    But I do find it rather sad what this result symbolizes--just more proof that you can't succeed nationally as a Republican today without bowing down before the most irrational, extreme and combative wing of the party. The Senate just lost one of it's most dignified and respected (by both sides of the aisle) members--someone who managed 36 years in Washington without a speck of real dirt or scandal attached to his name--to be replaced by just another dirt-flinging tea party puppet. That exchange sure as hell ain't improving Washington's toxic environment.
     
  9. Starman

    Starman Well-Known Member

    They don't want to pay one god damn rusty nickel of taxes for anything.

    Period.
     
  10. Dick Lugar would be an awesome gay porn name - just saying
     
  11. Mark2010

    Mark2010 Active Member

    FAIL!
     
  12. YankeeFan

    YankeeFan Well-Known Member

    I don't know anything about Mourkock. (Is that really his name, or is that a typo? I've read it differently all along in my head, if you have it right.)

    But, these guys are so damn vain, they really begin to think of themselves a irreplaceable.

    Nobody needs Dick Lugar in the US Senate. He's been there for 36 years. It's time to go.

    Maybe if he had announced his retirement ahead of time, maybe they could have gotten a better candidate. But, only a "Tea Party" guy is going to run against an incumbent.
     
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