MOURDOCK DEFEATS GOP SENATOR DICK LUGAR

Nobody finds any irony in the fact that the name of the Senator the NRA opposed is so damn' close to Luger?
(I owned a 9 mm once; they also come in 7 mm for issue to artillery officers.)

Lustig Andrei wrote:

Nobody finds any irony in the fact that the name of the Senator the NRA opposed is so damn' close to Luger?
(I owned a 9 mm once; they also come in 7 mm for issue to artillery officers.)

Do u remember its date??
Mine, in 9mm, is stamped "1940".

Don't remember the exact date but it was older than 1940. Sometime in the 1930s, I believe.





David

Mourdock Defeats Lugar!
GUN OWNERS OF AMERICA-endorsed candidate wins
most important Senate primary of the year

I would welcome Tico as a Democrat.

When pigs fly!

There won't be a moderate left (you'll excuse the expression) in the GOP by June.
What are you going to do, Tico?

Joe(or is it too late?)Nation

Joe Nation wrote:

There won't be a moderate left (you'll excuse the expression) in the GOP by June.
What are you going to do, Tico?

Joe(or is it too late?)Nation

The polarization works in both directions. It started among the Democrats soon after Clinton's presidency, and it has reached a new peak level with the Obama Administration.

Earlier, a dry-eyed Lugar conceded defeat to a room of supporters who wiped away tears even as they cheered him one last time. He told the crowd that he wants Mourdock to win so Republicans can win back the Senate majority.

But in a written statement distributed afterward, Lugar fell short of an endorsement. He called Mourdock's "embrace of an unrelenting partisan mindset" irreconcilable with his own governing philosophy.

"Unless he modifies his approach, he will achieve little as a legislator," he said.

Lugar's words showed why he lost.

Most Republican primary voters were not looking for someone who would compromise but for someone who never would.

For Mourdock, the win elevated him to national celebrity status. He is now the face of a new, much more conservative Republican Party that considers bipartisanship akin to betraying principles.

To groups like the anti-tax Club for Growth and the Grover Norquist-led Americans for Tax Reform, the win sent a message to other Republicans to get in line or get left behind.

And to the tea party activists -- both those Hoosiers who had targeted Lugar for defeat since 2010 and the national groups that had climbed on board -- the win was validation that their movement is very much alive.

Ryan Hecker, chief operating officer for the national tea party group FreedomWorks, said Mourdock's win in Indiana will ignite the party nationwide and lead to wins in Utah, Arizona, Texas and other states where it is backing conservative mavericks against other GOP veterans.

"Richard Mourdock's victory is a statement by the tea party movement in Indiana and around the country that we need to be taken seriously," Hecker said. "This is a momentum-builder for the tea party movement."

Joe Nation wrote:

There won't be a moderate left (you'll excuse the expression) in the GOP by June.
What are you going to do, Tico?

Joe(or is it too late?)Nation

The polarization works in both directions. It started among the Democrats soon after Clinton's presidency, and it has reached a new peak level with the Obama Administration.

Actually, I think that many Republicans honestly believe this. Their worldview is so distorted by their ideology, that they see disagreement as obstructionism, and they see obstructionism as a legitimate tactic (when performed by Republicans).