Indiana tea party activists endorse Lugar challenger

[pampango]

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/campaigns/indiana-tea-party-activists-endorse-lugar-challenge

Indiana tea party groups have overwhelmingly endorsed the Republican state treasurer’s bid to unseat six-term U.S. Sen. Richard Lugar in next year’s Senate race.

During a straw vote Saturday by Hoosiers for a Conservative Senate, 96 of the 97 votes cast went to tea party favorite Richard Mourdock. One vote in the secret ballot went to Lugar, who did not attend the meeting.

Hoosiers for a Conservative Senate co-chair Monica Boyer says the activists left the gathering resolved to work toward Mourdock defeating Lugar in May’s GOP primary. Tea party groups have criticized Lugar for his votes on some immigration issues and for President Barack Obama’s Supreme Court nominations.

U.S. Rep. Joe Donnelly is the only announced Democratic candidate for the Senate seat that Lugar first won in 1976.

Read more: Washington Post

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In Indiana teabaggers have boiled it down to immigration and the Supreme Court apparently. Hopefully, the repubs nominating a teabagger or at least weakening Lugar by pushing him farther to the right will help elect a Democratic senator next year.

[no_hypocrisy]

1. Is Indiana a red state or a blue state?

If it's a red state, what are the chances of a democratic candidate winning the Senate seat? And there'd be one more Tea Party member in the Senate if the dem lost.

[SkyDaddy7]

2. According to a friend I have who lives...

in Indiana...It is like many other states racing to the far right!

[caraher]

4. Certainly in 2010 it turned out that way

We elected some real idiots just because they had an (R) with their names. Charlie White, the Secretary of State, was so awful even the rubber-stamp Republican-endorsing rag the Indianapolis Star said to vote for the Democrat - and it wasn't even close. (White, while running for the office tasked with ensuring the integrity of elections, had admitted to voting where he was not eligible to vote.) My US rep is Todd Rokita, who was the previous Secretary of State who put Indiana ahead of the trend of restrictive voter ID laws we've seen following teabagger victories, and finished a 1-2 punch of voter suppression by closing license branches in areas like Gary, IN, which leans to the blue.

[BiggJawn]

6. Yeah, Todd Rokita, what a piece of work...

Never thought I'd have to put up with somebody who made Steve Buyer look good.

[SkyDaddy7]

7. Have you noticed how Republicans...

PROJECT everything they want to do on Democrats...Like they accuse the Democrats of using the Government to hold onto power, control the daily lives of Americans, running up the deficit, etc., when in reality it is them who do all of the above & so much more...Yet the majority of everyday voters believe the Democrats are the ones guilty of doing those things!

I know that many on the left refuse to admit this but FOX News & Talk Radio are the main reasons why a majority of Americans think the Democrats are the power hungry big spenders who want to control every aspect of our lives...Just look at how the political landscape has changed in America since Talk Radio & FOX News came onto the scene! It is obvious that political viewpoints change when the Right Wing Media empire goes into action! The Health Care debate & especially the Financial Reform debate are prime examples of this! The poll numbers completely flipped once the debates began & the Right Wing Media began their attack!

Oh well?!?!

[caraher]

3. Red-leaning purple

Went for Obama and the governor's office seems to get its share of Democrats, but for the most part it's dominated by Republicans.

I think Lugar is unbeatable in a general election, which creates mixed feelings. The best hope for a Democrat is that Mourdock beats Lugar and the electorate at large won't stomach a a tea party senator. But I really hope Lugar wins the primary, even if it makes it harder for Democrats to take the seat, because he's one of the last halfway-sane Republicans in national office, and I'd hate to risk giving the seat to yet another raving loonie.

[BiggJawn]

5. We voted for Obama, but Teh Stoopid is on the rise.

We went for Obama in '08 but the Right rose up (or the Left that was there in '08 was pissed that they didn't get their pony and stayed home) in '10 and sent a lot of first-timers beholden to the Tea Party to DC.
Evan Bayh (Eyebeen Baught) retired, citing the ultra-partisan rancor in DC (and with a 8-figure lobbying offer in his hand)

Hoosiers don't mind Democrats in our county and municipal offices, but for some damn reason we think tri-corner hats are SO sexy on people wanting to go to Washington.

The State is predominately Blue around the big urban areas and the IU campus in Bloomington and red everywhere else. Must be something in the Soybean fertilizer.

[tropicanarose]

8. Yes, why in the world did Evan Bayh not seek re-election? He was a much needed Senator in IN

[Bucky]

9. Because he would have lost.

I liked lots of what Bayh did, but he was also a careerist. He didn't want to go down fighting.

[JTFrog]

12. Because he and his wife were about to be exposed.

Wellpoint paid them handsomely for his efforts to block the debate on health care reform.

The only reason that he lasted as long as he did was because folks saw him as just another conservative. I think the way he fucked the Democratic party on his way out was pretty telling. I think he and his wife should be put up on the stand and be served a little justice.

[tropicanarose]

16. Details please......I didn't know about this. What was going to be exposed? rop

I was upset when he left b/c we need every seat that we have...
I was happy that we had a Democratic US Senator in Indiana though I know that many considered him to be more of a centrist. You have to play the middle ground to win in a red state though

[JTFrog]

17. Just do a google search on Evan Bayh and his wife.

I know that huffpo and a couple others ran a couple articles late in 2009. By not running in 2010, it pretty much got buried and forgotten about. Which I believe was by design.

[JTFrog]

11. Red leaning redder.

In 2008 it was a different story. I thought there was a smidgeon of a chance to see places like Indianapolis turn purple or blue. I mean they did vote for Obama. I was overly optimistic to say the least. The Dems still don't even run candidates in many offices. Lugar has run unopposed for years. Places like Carmel, that are ridiculously blue, don't run Dems for local offices.

And then take a look at some of the Indiana Supreme Court decisions in the last couple of years. Planned Parenthood shut down. Cops don't really even need warrants anymore. They have labor issues mimicking Wisconsin. The Indiana Dems tried to stand up to this shit, but they are just way outnumbered.

All I can say is that when I left there this summer, something kept telling me that I was getting out in the nick of time. The sacrifice was just too high to enjoy the low cost of living in Indiana.

[fascisthunter]

10. Teabaggerz... not Tea Party

[24601]

14. Yes, if you're more interested in certain sexual practices rather than

political dialog. Whatever floats your boat - I'll not judge your most personal of preferences. Who smacks you in the face with whatever body part is, as we say, no skin off my nose.

Of course you'll never win elections that way - but whatever floats yer boat.

[fascisthunter]

15. teabaggers is very appropriate

get over it....

[BiggJawn]

18. I call 'em "Teabaggers" because it pisses them off.

I'm not interested in "political dialog" with the Authoritarian mouthbreathers for the same reason i'm not interested in trying to teach a pig to sing. It's an enormous waste of time and energy and only pisses off all parties concerned.

[24601]

13. The mirror image of those who say Obama has to face a primary n/t