Tea Party Dead? Lugar Loses

[Stephanie]

Reading some of the articles lately you'd think Lugar died or something..

Where do these people get off thinking they should be crowned a job FOR LIFE?

 

[Neotrotsky]

Reading some of the articles lately you'd think Lugar died or something..

Where do these people get off thinking they should be crowned a job FOR LIFE?

It seemed to start after Papa Obama was elected

 

[Stephanie]

Nobody claimed stupidity was dead, it is infinite as the tea party demonstrates. Whining and doing nothing is easy, the tea party does both with a wonderful efficiency. When they do something for America let us know. Proves again just how useless the republican party has become and maybe always was.

lol, you all don't like it when THE PEOPLE speak, do you..?

Where is all that, we won, GET OVER IT..

Well the people SPOKE loud and clear in 2010 and the march "forward" continues..

 

[Stephanie]

Reading some of the articles lately you'd think Lugar died or something..

Where do these people get off thinking they should be crowned a job FOR LIFE?

It seemed to start after Papa Obama was elected

Yep, but remember, the Tea Party is dead dead dead.

 

[Annie]

Dems would rather run against a TeaTard than Lugar

It was an interesting and silent revolution around here.

Lugar was absolutely untouchable for 30 years in the Senate and for 20 in state and city offices before that.

This election has national overtones. Make no mistake.

Indeed it does. What so many ballyhooing for the Republicans seem to be missing was that the GOP was firmly behind Lugar with money and appearances until the very last week or so. Then they pulled out.

 

[Neotrotsky]

Dems would rather run against a TeaTard than Lugar

It was an interesting and silent revolution around here.

Lugar was absolutely untouchable for 30 years in the Senate and for 20 in state and city offices before that.

This election has national overtones. Make no mistake.

Indeed it does. What so many ballyhooing for the Republicans seem to be missing was that the GOP was firmly behind Lugar with money and appearances until the very last week or so. Then they pulled out.

The guy did not even live in his own state
He couldn't even remember what address he put on his
Indiana driver's license
Any politician like that, yeah it was time to go

 

[candycorn]

Lugar was a fine guy and one of the smartest men in the room on foreign policy issues. He'd long been a mentor and role model for young folks interested in serving their country.

Unfortunately this puts his seat in play. This will be a strongly contested seat in the Senate. Indiana isn't so solidly red that a GOP win is a sure fire bet here.

Obama won Indiana in 08. True.

 

[JoeB131]

Richard Mourdock defeats Sen. Dick Lugar in Indiana | The Ticket - Yahoo! News

Dick Lugar, the longest-serving Republican in the Senate, was defeated Tuesday as Indiana Republicans chose state Treasurer Richard Mourdock over Lugar as the party's nominee.

With 37 percent reporting, Mourdock received 60 percent to 40 percent for Lugar in the Hoosier state's Senate primary, marking a huge win for tea party supporters and conservatives across the country.

Conservatives had long targeted Lugar for defeat, arguing he represented a Republican establishment in Congress that has acquiesced to the Democratic party. They singled out Lugar's votes for the bailouts, in support of the president's stimulus and votes to confirm U.S. Supreme Court nominees Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor as evidence of his "RINO" (Republican in name only) status.

National tea party groups such as FreedomWorks and the Tea Party Express as well as the state group Hoosiers for a Conservative Senate and others mobilized and invested in the race, casting the contest as a nationally significant battle to restore conservatism and hold leaders of the Republican establishment accountable...

and again, why is this a good thing?

What it says is the GOP has become so radicalized people who have been stalwarts of it for decades no longer have a home there.

Now, Lugar made a lot of mistakes, so there's no real excuse for the bad campaign he ran. And there's now a real possiblity that Indiana is in play in November. Lugar would have beaten Donnely by double digits, Mourdouck is only about tied with him.

 

[Neotrotsky]

Lugar was a fine guy and one of the smartest men in the room on foreign policy issues. He'd long been a mentor and role model for young folks interested in serving their country.

Unfortunately this puts his seat in play. This will be a strongly contested seat in the Senate. Indiana isn't so solidly red that a GOP win is a sure fire bet here.

Obama won Indiana in 08. True.

Well like most states

He will lose them next election

 

[JoeB131]

Lugar was a fine guy and one of the smartest men in the room on foreign policy issues. He'd long been a mentor and role model for young folks interested in serving their country.

Unfortunately this puts his seat in play. This will be a strongly contested seat in the Senate. Indiana isn't so solidly red that a GOP win is a sure fire bet here.

Obama won Indiana in 08. True.

Yeah, but he probably won't this time.

 

[JoeB131]

Lugar was a fine guy and one of the smartest men in the room on foreign policy issues. He'd long been a mentor and role model for young folks interested in serving their country.

Unfortunately this puts his seat in play. This will be a strongly contested seat in the Senate. Indiana isn't so solidly red that a GOP win is a sure fire bet here.

Obama won Indiana in 08. True.

Well like most states

He will lose them next election

Uh, not really.

He's already got 253 Electoral votes locked down.. He just needs 27 more.

Romney, on the other hand, has a ceiling of only about 296 EV's. He has to win every swing state in order to win... and hope no one figures out he's a creepy weirdo.

 

[Stephanie]

Richard Mourdock defeats Sen. Dick Lugar in Indiana | The Ticket - Yahoo! News

Dick Lugar, the longest-serving Republican in the Senate, was defeated Tuesday as Indiana Republicans chose state Treasurer Richard Mourdock over Lugar as the party's nominee.

With 37 percent reporting, Mourdock received 60 percent to 40 percent for Lugar in the Hoosier state's Senate primary, marking a huge win for tea party supporters and conservatives across the country.

Conservatives had long targeted Lugar for defeat, arguing he represented a Republican establishment in Congress that has acquiesced to the Democratic party. They singled out Lugar's votes for the bailouts, in support of the president's stimulus and votes to confirm U.S. Supreme Court nominees Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor as evidence of his "RINO" (Republican in name only) status.

National tea party groups such as FreedomWorks and the Tea Party Express as well as the state group Hoosiers for a Conservative Senate and others mobilized and invested in the race, casting the contest as a nationally significant battle to restore conservatism and hold leaders of the Republican establishment accountable...

and again, why is this a good thing?

What it says is the GOP has become so radicalized people who have been stalwarts of it for decades no longer have a home there.

Now, Lugar made a lot of mistakes, so there's no real excuse for the bad campaign he ran. And there's now a real possiblity that Indiana is in play in November. Lugar would have beaten Donnely by double digits, Mourdouck is only about tied with him.

lol, radicalized..
so your calling the people who voted Lugar out, radicals?

 

[Neotrotsky]

Richard Mourdock defeats Sen. Dick Lugar in Indiana | The Ticket - Yahoo! News

Dick Lugar, the longest-serving Republican in the Senate, was defeated Tuesday as Indiana Republicans chose state Treasurer Richard Mourdock over Lugar as the party's nominee.

With 37 percent reporting, Mourdock received 60 percent to 40 percent for Lugar in the Hoosier state's Senate primary, marking a huge win for tea party supporters and conservatives across the country.

Conservatives had long targeted Lugar for defeat, arguing he represented a Republican establishment in Congress that has acquiesced to the Democratic party. They singled out Lugar's votes for the bailouts, in support of the president's stimulus and votes to confirm U.S. Supreme Court nominees Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor as evidence of his "RINO" (Republican in name only) status.

National tea party groups such as FreedomWorks and the Tea Party Express as well as the state group Hoosiers for a Conservative Senate and others mobilized and invested in the race, casting the contest as a nationally significant battle to restore conservatism and hold leaders of the Republican establishment accountable...

and again, why is this a good thing?

What it says is the GOP has become so radicalized people who have been stalwarts of it for decades no longer have a home there.

Now, Lugar made a lot of mistakes, so there's no real excuse for the bad campaign he ran. And there's now a real possiblity that Indiana is in play in November. Lugar would have beaten Donnely by double digits, Mourdouck is only about tied with him.

Honestly
an 80 year asking for another term
and a man who was unable to vote in his own
state because he did not live there since 1977
as found by a court
He and his wife had to use their son's address to register and vote
for this election

that kind of politician should have left a long time ago
regardless of party

 

[JoeB131]

Richard Mourdock defeats Sen. Dick Lugar in Indiana | The Ticket - Yahoo! News

and again, why is this a good thing?

What it says is the GOP has become so radicalized people who have been stalwarts of it for decades no longer have a home there.

Now, Lugar made a lot of mistakes, so there's no real excuse for the bad campaign he ran. And there's now a real possiblity that Indiana is in play in November. Lugar would have beaten Donnely by double digits, Mourdouck is only about tied with him.

lol, radicalized..
so your calling the people who voted Lugar out, radicals?

I'm saying they are nowhere near the mainstream.

Lugar has been around since the Reagan days. He was one of the Go-To Guys when Reagan or Bush needed to get things done.

Now he's a "Rino" because a few times, he didn't cast a knee-jerk anti-Obama vote.

This is why the GOP is quickly on its way to becoming a regional party. It's dying out in the Northeast, West Coast and Midwest.

 

[Neotrotsky]

Richard Mourdock defeats Sen. Dick Lugar in Indiana | The Ticket - Yahoo! News

and again, why is this a good thing?

What it says is the GOP has become so radicalized people who have been stalwarts of it for decades no longer have a home there.

Now, Lugar made a lot of mistakes, so there's no real excuse for the bad campaign he ran. And there's now a real possiblity that Indiana is in play in November. Lugar would have beaten Donnely by double digits, Mourdouck is only about tied with him.

lol, radicalized..
so your calling the people who voted Lugar out, radicals?

It's the SOP from the MSM and Left
Talk shows will be just besides themselves today
blah blah

 

[Sarah G]

Richard Mourdock defeats Sen. Dick Lugar in Indiana | The Ticket - Yahoo! News

Dick Lugar, the longest-serving Republican in the Senate, was defeated Tuesday as Indiana Republicans chose state Treasurer Richard Mourdock over Lugar as the party's nominee.

With 37 percent reporting, Mourdock received 60 percent to 40 percent for Lugar in the Hoosier state's Senate primary, marking a huge win for tea party supporters and conservatives across the country.

Conservatives had long targeted Lugar for defeat, arguing he represented a Republican establishment in Congress that has acquiesced to the Democratic party. They singled out Lugar's votes for the bailouts, in support of the president's stimulus and votes to confirm U.S. Supreme Court nominees Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor as evidence of his "RINO" (Republican in name only) status.

National tea party groups such as FreedomWorks and the Tea Party Express as well as the state group Hoosiers for a Conservative Senate and others mobilized and invested in the race, casting the contest as a nationally significant battle to restore conservatism and hold leaders of the Republican establishment accountable...

It was a conservative election, nobody cares about the factions anymore. They all vote in lockstep.

Not a bellweather and not a huge gain for the teaparty.

 

[JoeB131]

Honestly
an 80 year asking for another term
and a man who was unable to vote in his own
state because he did not live there since 1977
as found by a court
He and his wife had to use their son's address to register and vote
for this election

that kind of politician should have left a long time ago
regardless of party

Gee, I hope that there isn't a point in your life where people decide that you have no worth because you are old.

As a practical matter, Lugar would have won easily. Mourdock is only running about even with his Democratic Challenger.

 

[Neotrotsky]

Honestly
an 80 year asking for another term
and a man who was unable to vote in his own
state because he did not live there since 1977
as found by a court
He and his wife had to use their son's address to register and vote
for this election

that kind of politician should have left a long time ago
regardless of party

Gee, I hope that there isn't a point in your life where people decide that you have no worth because you are old.

As a practical matter, Lugar would have won easily. Mourdock is only running about even with his Democratic Challenger.

If this was his first time
your bogus point might sell a little better

He had 36 years in....
and the guy did not even live in the state
it was time to go

Does either side really want that kind
of politician in gov't

 

[Stephanie]

and again, why is this a good thing?

What it says is the GOP has become so radicalized people who have been stalwarts of it for decades no longer have a home there.

Now, Lugar made a lot of mistakes, so there's no real excuse for the bad campaign he ran. And there's now a real possiblity that Indiana is in play in November. Lugar would have beaten Donnely by double digits, Mourdouck is only about tied with him.

lol, radicalized..
so your calling the people who voted Lugar out, radicals?

I'm saying they are nowhere near the mainstream.

Lugar has been around since the Reagan days. He was one of the Go-To Guys when Reagan or Bush needed to get things done.

Now he's a "Rino" because a few times, he didn't cast a knee-jerk anti-Obama vote.

This is why the GOP is quickly on its way to becoming a regional party. It's dying out in the Northeast, West Coast and Midwest.

You are right, YOU're saying..
the man was 80 friggen years old...just because the Democrat party keeps their elected Reps. until they wheel them in on a gurney to cast a vote...

good grief...all the crying over a Republican being voted out..

 

[JoeB131]

Honestly
an 80 year asking for another term
and a man who was unable to vote in his own
state because he did not live there since 1977
as found by a court
He and his wife had to use their son's address to register and vote
for this election

that kind of politician should have left a long time ago
regardless of party

Gee, I hope that there isn't a point in your life where people decide that you have no worth because you are old.

As a practical matter, Lugar would have won easily. Mourdock is only running about even with his Democratic Challenger.

If this was his first time
your bogus point might sell a little better

He had 36 years in....
and the guy did not even live in the state
it was time to go

Does either side really want that kind
of politician in gov't

He had 36 years because for 36 years, he did a good job.

That was before the inmates took over the asylum at the GOP.