I don't agree with Lugar on much, but man, he's my type of Conservative

[Khephra]

Gods, I wish there were more like him.

[Bombtrack]

1. He really seems to agree with Biden's realist foreign policy

Has he endorsed Bush?

[JI7]

2. the true conservative you can work with even if you disagree with him

lugar seems like one of those old time conservatives before the republican party became the disgusting partisan mess it is today. the type where you can disagree with him on the issues and debate on that issue without getting personal and even try to come to a common understanding and get things done.

lugar was also disgusted with bill frist's attack on richard clarke on the senate floor.

[PROGRESSIVE1]

7. As a moderate/liberal Democrat: as a Senator, I see myself....

getting along very well with people such as Richard Lugar and Chuck Hagel. I would be at war with Zell (Dick Russell's Love Child) Miller!

How Ironic!

[Khephra]

8. Lugar is one of the last real "gentlemen" in politics

When he talks, it's from his heart and mind, not a list of Republican talking points.

[librechik]

3. yea, he and Rockefeller are in concensus about the Iraq idiocy

It's good to hear a couple of sensible voices from that madhouse called Washington DC.

[Kahuna]

4. He seems to have a bit of a conscious..

too bad it isn't contagious.

[kodi]

5. he detests bush's incompetency in foreign affairs.

lugar and sam nunn sponsored a senate bill that became law to aid the dismanteling of the old soviet union's nuke programs and weaponry. the funding for this was cut when bush came into office, first by over $100M, then when lugar and nunn (then out of the senate) raised hell, funding was continued, albeit at a dramatically reduced level.

this program was to pay for the secure destruction of nuclear weaponry and provide money for ex-soviet scientists who were potentially about to sell their nuclear technology information to terrorists and "rogue" nations.

when bush decided to cut funding, lugar stood on the floor of the seanate and chewed george w bush a new asshole.

he dislikes bush and it shows.

[Khephra]

6. That's one of the issues I really agree with Lugar on

The idiocy of not funding that program just shows how unserious the Bush Administration is about our security. Even my conservative Uncle has problems with Bush on that issue. It's a short-sighted approach to a long term problem that's a bigger threat than Iraq ever was to this country.

[indypaul]

9. But, take this into account

the Director of OMB at the time was Lugar's friend and
former political associate, Mitch Daniels who is now
running for Governor of Indiana with the blessing of
Bush. Indeed politics does make strange bedfellows
doesn't it?

[Khephra]

10. Oh, of course

But wouldn't you rather have someone like Lugar (if you had to) rather than someone like Sessions or Delay?

[Nlighten1]

11. He doesn't use form letters to respond to your emails either...

He is the ONLY Congressman, of mine, that does that.

[Khephra]

12. Most def

Lugar -- about 10 letters returned.

Bayh - zip.

[Nlighten1]

13. I get them from Bayh but..

It is just some BS form letter..."thanks for contacting me...your thoughts are important...blah blah blah".

[BiggJawn]

14. Even though he's a ReTHUG, I like him...

He sends personal letters, and I find myself agreeing with him a LOT more than I do, oh, say, John "Hostile" Hostettler the Gunsel or Steve "Honest, they called me up!" Boo-Yah....

[Khephra]

15. He's also "quietly religious"

Doesn't he have some sort of religious degree? Yet, I hardly ever hear him bring up religion during bill discussions.

[rock]

16. What was his position on counting ballots in Election 2000?

Sorry then, when the chips are down is when it counts. I'll do what I can to unseat him (I live in Indiana).