Lugar's parting words: Part defense, part warning
By Dana Bash, Senior Congressional Correspondent
updated 9:34 AM EDT, Wed May 9, 2012
Indianapolis (CNN) --
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Lugar had his aides distribute a prepared statement that was part detailed defense of his ill-fated and often maligned campaign strategy, and part stark warning to both parties about the divisive state of American politics -- starting with Richard Mourdock, the Republican who beat him.
"His embrace of an unrelenting partisan mindset is irreconcilable with my philosophy of governance and my experience of what brings results for Hoosiers in the Senate. In effect, what he has promised in this campaign is reflexive votes for a rejectionist orthodoxy and rigid opposition to the actions and proposals of the other party," Lugar wrote of Mourdock.
This makes sense. The "other party's" fiscal philosophies are inherently evil. Conservatives have compromised with evil for far too long. In fact, most of the Republican party has absorbed the evil, to the point where it no longer clearly distinguishes between right and wrong, itself and the Democrats.
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"He has pledged his support to groups whose prime mission is to cleanse the Republican party of those who stray from orthodoxy as they see it," said Lugar of the GOP opponent who beat him.
Such 'cleansing,' (as charged a buzzword as there's ever been), is needed. There's no such thing as "sort of clean." You're either clean, or you're not. You either keep the vermin, or you get rid of it. Lugar apparently thinks there's some middle ground.
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"This is not conducive to problem solving and governance."
Au contraire. It's absolutely conducive to solving the problem of TOO MUCH GOVERNANCE.
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"And he will find that unless he modifies his approach, he will achieve little as a legislator."
Spoken by someone who believes the measure of a man is the number of new laws he has passed.
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'Worse, he will help delay solutions that are totally beyond the capacity of partisan majorities to achieve," said Lugar.
And if that IS the desired 'solution,' Mr. Lugar???
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He said if Republicans continue to make it difficult for legislators to find compromise, "we will be relegated to minority status. Parties don't succeed for long if they stop appealing to voters who may disagree with them on some issues."
Poor baby . . . thinks the world ends when he gets the boot. The fact that the Tea Party is gaining momentum should tell Lugar that there's a problem with his belief. If he'd learned that lesson sooner, perhaps voters would have kept him in office.
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"I don't remember a time when so many topics have become politically unmentionable in one party or the other. Republicans cannot admit to any nuance in policy on climate change. Republican members are now expected to take pledges against any tax increases. For two consecutive presidential nomination cycles, GOP candidates competed with one another to express the most strident anti-immigration view, even at the risk of alienating a huge voting bloc," said Lugar.
The six-term Republican was hammered by Mourdock and outside groups for voting for President Obama's two Supreme Court picks and supporting other parts of the president's agenda from immigration to energy.
No wonder he's gotten the boot. Lugar is a RINO. I'm sure he now regrets that he didn't flip parties and run as a Democrat. Perhaps he still will.
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In his unusual departing treatise, Lugar said he believes his votes for Wall Street and auto industry bailouts, and immigration reforms were "the right votes for the country."
"I stand by them without regrets," said Lugar.
Good riddance to bad garbage.
Full article: http://www.cnn.com/2012/05/09/politics/lugar-parting-words/index.html?hpt=hp_t2
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