Lugar Loses
Diane Ellis ·
May 9, 2012 at 2:08am
As Prof. Groseclose predicted would happen, Indiana Sen. Richard Lugar has lost his primary race to Tea Party challenger Richard Mourdock. With over 60 percent of the expected vote in, Mourdock leads Lugar by a margin of 20 percent.
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May '10
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I'm grateful for this good news. I needed it.
Jul '11
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Here here! How many 'old guard' does that make now?
Senator Lugar, thank you for your service, enjoy your retirement ;-p
Jan '11
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Do we think Mourdock will win in November?
Oct '10
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Sic semper rinosis.
Nov '11
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More evidence that the Tea Party hasn't fallen silent. Expect the large margin to be as "unexpected" as it shows "troubling" aspects of the Republican voter base. It will be fun to look at the analysis and see how many negative ways this result is spun.
May '11
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watch out Orrin, you're next
Oct '10
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Operation Counterweight. Lugar is a victim of Romney winning the GOP nomination.
Dec '10
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Diane,
Richard Lugar was an effective moderate Republican Senator under the Reagan White House.
The World has turned over 2 or 3 times since then. Lugar simply could not grasp the radical, corrupt, and disingenuous nature of the Obama crowd. He was much more worried that he'd be supporting something the Tea Party liked then he was worried that he was enabling the Obamite disease to get even worse.
I certainly hope to see Mourdock alongside Mitt in D.C. come November. It's been a long time coming.
Regards,
Jim
Oct '10
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I think he's more a victim of the do-nothing (or worse, like his treatment of Ron Johnson) approach of Mitch McConnell. Tea Partiers are looking for people who aren't into "business as usual".
May '10
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Too many conservatives go to Washington as Ronald Reagan and leave as Bob Michel.
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James Gawron: Diane,
Richard Lugar was an effective moderate Republican Senator under the Reagan White House.
The World has turned over 2 or 3 times since then. Lugar simply could not grasp the radical, corrupt, and disingenuous nature of the Obama crowd. He was much more worried that he'd be supporting something the Tea Party liked then he was worried that he was enabling the Obamite disease to get even worse.
I certainly hope to see Mourdock alongside Mitt in D.C. come November. It's been a long time coming.
Regards,
Jim · 13 minutes ago
This is nicely put. Lugar was an excellent mayor of Indianapolis. And in the Cold War he was a stalwart supporter of the appropriate causes. I regret that he has had to suffer this humiliation.
But the wound is self-inflicted. The Democrats abandoned bipartisanship under Obama, and Lugar was not prepared to answer fire with fire. His day is done.
Oct '10
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As Glenn Reynolds used to say in 2010, "Don't Get Cocky" Tea Partiers.
Sep '10
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I fear that Lugar will use his time as a lame duck to pass multiple treaties that Obama wants that relinquish our sovereignty. He has already tried to pass LOST luckily it failed he may try so again. He pushed the latest start treaty & is likely to move on the small arms UN treaty.
If my theories are correct I hope he becomes incapacitated before he sells out the country on his way out.
Apr '11
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Waahoo!
Let us hope!
Apr '11
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From NYT web site: "Mr. Lugar’s defeat continued a hollowing of the middle of the Senate and seemed to serve as a caution to moderates on both sides of the aisle known for trying to work with their colleagues."
"Unexpected" and "troubling" will be prominent in coverage, along with sentiments like the above. Democrats have exhibited extremism for at least three years, but it is the Republicans who are laying waste to the middle ground.
Jun '10
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I heard Laura Ingraham interview him. This is no fluke. He's very articulate, and is already well-known in Indiana. And we need a geologist in the Senate.
It could happen, but is unlikely. Hatch learned from Bob Bennett's defeat two years ago. If he loses, it will be very close.
Jun '11
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I'm at Lugar Ground Zero here in Indianapolis. I know from personal conversations that the reason the rout isn't even worse is that many Dems asked for an R ballot today so they could support Lugar. My sense is that they did this not out of sentimentality and respect for Indiana's senior senator, but because they viewed Lugar as eminently more beatable in November than Mourdock.
I love Dick Lugar. I wished he had chosen to leave the public stage with grace and dignity, rather than being cast off of it. But I had no remorse at all when I voted for Mourdock today. We have to fight fire with fire. And Dick Lugar is simply not up to the task of taking on the viciousness of the Schumers, Boxers, Frankens, Leahys, etc. etc. and so forth.
Edited on May 9, 2012 at 3:37amJul '10
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That is the question. I don't know the answer.
On the bright side, Indiana is hardly Nevada or Colorado, let alone Delaware. Assuming he isn't a warlock, I like our chances.
Jan '11
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As a native Hoosier stranded for 30 years in Vermont, I'd love to have Lugar as one of my senators.
However, I'm glad to see him gone from the Indiana delegation.
My late father once quoted M. Stanton Evans as saying that you could always count on Lugar to vote the right way, except when it really mattered!
Apr '11
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I seem to remember Lugar being particularly nasty to the conservative base. It is never good to think one better than your constituents, even worse to express it.