Goodbye Dick Lugar

He was mayor of Indy when I was a kid.

 

And GOP lurches further to the right. Its amusing that voting for a Supreme Court nominee now makes someone a RINO.

 

depends on the supreme court nominee obviously and supporting bailouts should get you booted.

 

Moderates are liberals now.

 

ah yes, the ever reliable newfound respect for dead/retired Republicans, always better than the current lot

Mourdock is a great candidate and Lugar had long ago stopped fighting for conservatism.

Always great when an entrenched entitled DC type gets the boot.

http://campaign2012.washingtonexami...moderate-except-when-chasing-pac-money/516621

good riddance

 

This is really sad.

I doubt a single Republican today would have had the vision to fund the cooperative threat reduction program that eliminated nuclear weapons in the former Soviet Union. Not to mention such work required working and co-sponsoring your legislation with a democrat in Sam Nunn.

Lugar was every bit a conservative but apparently even the image of some level of bipartisanship is evidence that one is a closet liberal.

 

I agree with Commodore. I welcome the purging of the non believers.

 

Please find me a politician who has NEVER received ANY money from ANY lobbyist group and do them a favor.

 

Man, that's just sad. How do you disrespect a man like Dick Lugar, one of the most serious men of the Senate of the last few generations and a clear conservative by questioning his party credentials? Today's Republican party is eating its own tail. Sad.

 

That guy sounds like a douche from Commodore's article. Peace out old man.

 

If you guys are delusional enough to think that the new tea party freshmen aren't taking PAC money, then you guys are kidding yourselves.

Go look at the congressmen with the largest coffers and largest independent money. They're all tea party freshmen getting money from places like FreedomWorks and the million different Koch Brother PACs.

The anger at people like Lugar is laughable. With the rare exception (i.e. Russ Feingold) 99% of people who go to Washington take special interest money.

And I guarantee you that whoever gets elected in Indiana will support farm and ethanol subsidies and if they suggest otherwise, the farm lobby will destroy them.

 

Lieberman = sellout, Lugar = noble statesman...

Hatch is next, another creature of DC whose time has come.

 

I have no doubt the next schmoozer in there will be no different. Ethanol subsidies are garbage IMO especially since they're all GMO crops now polluting our food supply

 

This is a huge loss for <s>Republicans.</s> K Street.

 

Amazing that commodeor had the agreed-upon talking points ready. I just wonder if he received them via email, text message, or (giggle) *FAX*.

Thank you, Mr. Lugar. Country over politics: for citizens who feel the same way, we are forever in your debt.

 

Voted for him but I guess that was not enough.

 

Hit the road, Dick and don't you come back no more, no more, no more, no more

 

I love the K street outrage.

Everyone loves to hate K Street but no one bothers to actually regulate lobbyists and special interests. Lugar was getting so much money because he was the most senior republican in the Senate. K Street wont give a **** about Mourdock because he'll start at the bottom in junk committees that have little monetary value to lobbyists. But dont worry, once he moves up to better committees he too will feed off of K Street. And dont worry the farm lobby will fatten him up along with whatever traditional interests in Indiana fund campaigns.

Republicans love to complain about how democrats dont want to work with Republicans but then they go vote out members of their caucus who actually have some history of bipartisanship and vote in people who openly campaign against bipartisanship.

Good work champs.