RINO Hunters: Nice Six-Term Senate Career There, Dick Lugar

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RINO Hunters: Nice Six-Term Senate Career You Had There, Dick Lugar

Posted on | May 4, 2012 |

In the span of barely a month, polls in the Indiana Republican primary race between incumbent Sen. Dick Lugar and challenger Richard Mourdock have gone from a 7-point lead for Lugar to a 10-point lead for Mourdock. With the primary now just four days away, the headlines:

 

Thirty-six years in Washington is enough, and Lugar represents a style of Republican “centrism” that has outlived its usefulness.

The leftward drift of Democrats in the past couple of decades makes compromise increasingly untenable. Whatever basis there remained for genuine bipartisanship in Congress died during the second Bush term. The 2006 election brought into office a crowd of Democrats beholden to the far left, demanding radical measures on every issue from gay rights to global warming to health care. This was bad news for the Arlen Specter/Mike Castle type of “centrist” Republicans, just as it was for the Rick Boucher/Barron Hill type of “Blue Dog” Democrats, who were all but wiped out in 2010.

 

Bye Bye Dick

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Lugar Campaign Starting to Reek of Flop Sweat

 

 

 

 

Posted by Leon H. Wolf (Diary)

Friday, May 4th at 2:00PM EDT50 Comments

 

 

You can tell that the Dick Lugar campaign is terrified that they are going to lose by the emails the campaign is sending out over the last few days. Yesterday, Lugar was so desperate that he resorted to the tried and true Democrat tactic of scaring seniors about the nasty conservatives who are coming to steal their social security checks. In an email titled “Mourdock ‘just too risky’ for Hoosier senior citizens,” Lugar claimed that Mourdock wanted to slash everyone’s social security checks next year. It’s an odd attack for someone who has spent most of this campaign season trying to convince people that he’s really a conservative after all. News flash to Dick Lugar: conservatives don’t demonize Republicans over entitlement reform.