Richard Lugar: Tea Party Cost GOP Senate Control In 2010
Activism Thursday, December 29th, 2011
By DOUG MATACONIS, Outside the Beltway
Richard Lugar has been in Washington since 1977 and has been among the most visible Senate Republicans for decades now. On foreign policy, he’s perhaps one of the most knowledgable members of the Senate at this point and, if he manages to get re-elected and Republicans gain control of the Senate, he would become the President Pro Tempore and third in line to the Presidency. That “manages to be re-elected” part is the problem for him, though. It’s not likely that he’d lose to a Democrat in a General Election, but right now he’s facing a Tea Party backed challenge in the primary that will be held on May 8th and there’s little love lost between Indiana’s Senior Senator and the insurgent Republican movement. This past Sunday, for example, Lugar said that he believed that it was the Tea Party that cost Republicans control of the Senate in the 2010 elections:
Sen. Dick Lugar (Ind.), facing a primary contest from the right in his reelection bid, said past Tea Party-backed challenges had “killed off” Republican efforts to take the Senate in the past and could undermine a GOP majority again in 2012.
“A Republican majority in the Senate is very important, and Republicans who are running for reelection ought to be supported by people who want to see that majority,” Lugar said in an interview that aired Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union.”
“I think the majority of Tea Party people understand that too,” he added.
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Republicans lost the seats before in Nevada and New Jersey and Colorado where there were people who were claiming they wanted somebody who was more of their Tea Party aspect, but they killed off the Republican majority.”
“This is one of the reasons why we have a minority in the Senate right now,” he claimed.
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Mitch McConnell. This is your future. We haven’t forgotten that you twisted the arms of Republican senators to get them to vote for the TARP-1 Wall Street bankster bailout. You, Luger, McCain… all of you traitors will be voted out of office. The difference between a RINO and a Big Government Democrat is no choice at all. I wouldn’t turn my hand for the difference. We can do better and we must do better. The Two Parties That Are One will be the death of our country if wee don’t stop it now.
Richard Lugar( Old School RINO) deserves to go home!
It is time they all go home and live under the same rules and regulations they force us to live under.
What good is control when you run around acting like Democrats anyhow !
I would prefer 535 names from the phone book to what we have now
Out with the Neocon Republicrat big government scum. In with REAL Constitutionalists, FINALLY, I hope. Too many people who think they are ‘conservative’ have no meaning of the concept and follow the leftist media to fake conservative candidates like Newt and Romney who will continue taking us down the globalist road to serfdom and tyranny.
What arrogance. Throw him out. That attitude is the reason why there is a TEA Party in the first place.
Sounds to me like anti-gun, anti-freedom, anti-America Lugar’s getting the message and running scared…
Tea Party to Dick Lugar: That’s the plan, and you know it–until you worthless, corrupt RINOs start standing up for the Constitution, we’re going to continue to hamstring you as a group, and we’re going to continue to throw you scum out one at a time until the Republican Party as a whole becomes a force for freedom and principle.
Time for Luger to go. He and the rest of his RINO buddies did little to nothing to encourage conservatism when controlling both houses of Congress.