NBC News has declared Richard Mourdock as the projected winner in the Indiana Senate primary. Mourdock defeated six-term Republican foreign policy elder statesman Sen. Richard Lugar.
Mourdock is backed by conservatives ranging from the National Rifle Association to local Tea Party activists to the Washington-based fiscal conservative group the Club for Growth.
With more than 20 percent of precincts reporting, Mourdock was winning 61 percent of the vote.
Looking toward the November election, National Republican Senatorial Committee chairman Sen. John Cornyn of Texas said two weeks ago that “it will probably make it more of a contest if Sen. Lugar is not the nominee, but I’m confident we’ll hold the seat.”
Peggy Noonan, David Brooks, and Karl Rove begin to meltdown in 3...2...1...
to local Tea Party activists
I second that::bustamove:: ::danceban:: ::newyear:: ::cool:: ::thumbsup:: ::rimshot:: ::whoohoo:: ::rolllaughing:: ::USA::
Quoteto local Tea Party activists
Huh. I thought they were all supposed to be dead or sumpin'.
Quoteto local Tea Party activists
Huh. I thought they were all supposed to be dead or sumpin'.
Yeah, Rush was talking about this last week I think it was. He said everyone thinks the Tea Party is over cuz they're not rallying much any more. He said nope they've just shifted in to getting candidates elected.
This year’s race essentially began in 2010, when former Utah Sen. Bob Bennett was ousted by delegates fueled by tea party politics.link (http://www.theblaze.com/stories/orrin-hatch-forced-into-primary-fight-after-failing-to-secure-gop-nomination/)
Hatch reportedly remarked: “These people are not conservatives. They’re not Republicans…They’re radical libertarians and I’m doggone offended by it.”
“I despise these people, and I’m not the guy you come in and dump on without getting punched in the mouth,” he continued.
Immediately recognizing the challenge he would likely face from such groups, Hatch launched one of the most well-organized and expensive campaigns in the state’s history. Since the beginning of 2011, he has spent more than $5 million – and he still has $3 million to spend on a primary.
Hatch has also shifted his rhetoric to the right over the past two years to address the claims that he was not conservative enough (probably not a good strategy to admit you “despise” your constituents).
A few hours after conceding, Lugar slammed Mourdock for embracing "groups whose prime mission is to cleanse the Republican Party of those who stray from orthodoxy as they see it."
Bye bye, asshat. You were the problem.Some effing nerve! The SOB should look up the Federalist Papers and see what the framers had in mind. Dollars to doughnuts they didn't mean for Congress members to sit around smoking cigars discussing what types of legislation should be passed and they sure as hell weren't suppose to be there all year round nor were Senators supposed to be elected by anything other than the state legislatures they supposedly represent.
http://xfinity.comcast.net/articles/news-politics/20120509/US.Lugar.Warning.Signs/?cid=hero_media (http://xfinity.comcast.net/articles/news-politics/20120509/US.Lugar.Warning.Signs/?cid=hero_media)
A few hours after conceding, Lugar slammed Mourdock for embracing "groups whose prime mission is to cleanse the Republican Party of those who stray from orthodoxy as they see it."
"This is not conducive to problem solving and governance," Lugar said. "And he will find that unless he modifies his approach, he will achieve little as a legislator. Worse, he will help delay solutions that are totally beyond the capacity of partisan majorities to achieve."
Bye bye, asshat. You were the problem.
http://xfinity.comcast.net/articles/news-politics/20120509/US.Lugar.Warning.Signs/?cid=hero_media (http://xfinity.comcast.net/articles/news-politics/20120509/US.Lugar.Warning.Signs/?cid=hero_media)
A few hours after conceding, Lugar slammed Mourdock for embracing "groups whose prime mission is to cleanse the Republican Party of those who stray from orthodoxy as they see it."
"This is not conducive to problem solving and governance," Lugar said. "And he will find that unless he modifies his approach, he will achieve little as a legislator. Worse, he will help delay solutions that are totally beyond the capacity of partisan majorities to achieve."
A few hours after conceding, Lugar slammed Mourdock for embracing "groups whose prime mission is to cleanse the Republican Party of those who stray from orthodoxy as they see it."
QuoteA few hours after conceding, Lugar slammed Mourdock for embracing "groups whose prime mission is to cleanse the Republican Party of those who stray from orthodoxy as they see it."
Damn right, as WE SEE IT! We're doing our job because Lugar hasn't been doing his. It's the Constitution, stoopit!
Unbelievable! Who in the hell does this guy, and Hatch, think they are?
/rhetorical
QuoteA few hours after conceding, Lugar slammed Mourdock for embracing "groups whose prime mission is to cleanse the Republican Party of those who stray from orthodoxy as they see it."
Damn right, as WE SEE IT! We're doing our job because Lugar hasn't been doing his. It's the Constitution, stoopit!
Unbelievable! Who in the hell does this guy, and Hatch, think they are?
/rhetorical
Our betters of course.
"And he will find that unless he modifies his approach, he will achieve little as a legislator. Worse, he will help delay solutions that are totally beyond the capacity of partisan majorities to achieve."
Violent threats from the death throes of moderation.
::hysterical::
"And he will find that unless he modifies his approach, he will achieve little as a legislator. Worse, he will help delay solutions that are totally beyond the capacity of partisan majorities to achieve."
Violent threats from the death throes of moderation.
Aggression from a moderate. It is not unlike Woody Allen cast as Freddy Krueger.
Unbelievable and yet funny.
Or unbelievably funny.