This GOP Senator Is Ready To Take Down The Tea Party

[cali]

Veteran GOP Senator Richard Lugar of Indiana has thumbed his nose at Tea Party threats. The Hoosier State Republican knows they are coming after his Senate seat in 2012 but he is not going down without a fight.

Lugar, who has served six terms in the Senate, has $2.3 million in his campaign war chest, which likely puts him far ahead of any potential primary challengers. But the 78-year old says he is kicking his fundraising up a notch in preparation for a tough assault from the right.

Indiana State Treasurer Richard Mourdock (R ) is expected to formally launch a challenge against Lugar this weekend, according to Politico. Mourdock recently visited Washington, where he paid his respects to Tea Party kingmaker Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC).

Tea Party groups in the Hoosier State have said they will rally around one candidate to unseat Lugar in the 2012 Republican primary. State Sen. Mike Delph (R ) has also been mentioned as a possible candidate.

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/republican-sen-dick-lugar-is-ready-to-take-down-the-tea-party-2011-2#ixzz1CwLUCJwT

[CrispyQ]

1. The repub party courted these whackos, now they have to deal with them.

Slightly dated, but a classic.

[pacalo]

3. Great cartoon. What a mess for the Republicans, huh?

[cali]

11. fab cartoon. thanks for posting it. I never saw it.

[JuniperLea]

2. Poetic justice...

I hope they pull each other's hair out... metaphorically, of course.

[Kennah]

4. Before, during, or after ...

... they remove the testicles from their faces?

[JuniperLea]

6. Oh, during! Please let it be during!

Short hairs work too.

:D

[Rex]

5. Stupid is as stupid does.

GOPukers create a Frankenstein, then act like they will be the hero and slay their creation. Duuuu---errr.

[emulatorloo]

9. Lugar is not that way. Never ever pandared to teabags, spoke out against Repub Caucus on several

occasions, latest one being START ratification.

[Rex]

12. WOW.

Are you telling me there is an actual Republican that has some personal integrity serving in Congress!? Can we start cloning him immediately?

[emulatorloo]

14. LOL lets not get carried away. He is sane though, not like most of the nuts out there.

He and Obama co-sponsored some Nuclear Non-Proliferation bill(s) when Obama was a Senator. Lugar has always been good on that subject, that is what I mostly know about him.

[karynnj]

15. Yes - Lugar has integrity, and is a very couteous gentleman

He is very conservative on economic issues - on foreign policy, he and John Kerry have often had large areas of agreement.

[Cant trust em]

7. I like Lugar...as much as I can like a republican. nt

[emulatorloo]

10. One of the few sane ones n/t

[Qutzupalotl]

13. Yep. We may disagree, but you can at least *talk* to him

without him turning around and calling you unamerican.

[bluestateguy]

8. Richard Mourdock is the one who tried to destroy Chrysler

and kill thousands of jobs in his state and many more nationwide.

[wryter2000]

16. I hope he bankrupts himself in the campaign

And looses by a google-plex. (Remember when the word "google" had another meaning?)