Whitley County Patriots

From HoosierAccess:

(The following post was written by Micah Clark and appeared in the American Family Association of Indiana Weekly Newsletter)

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One of the biggest responses I have received from readers of this email in the last month came about after I mentioned Senator Richard Lugar’s vote in favor of Elana Kagan and talk of whether he should be challenged in the Republican Primary.

Talk of challenges to Senator Lugar in the 2012 Republican Primary has become a hot topic of discussion in some political circles. Some see a challenge to the longest serving Republican member of US Senate (34 years) as a fool’s game. In light of the recent Arizona primary results, there may be evidence that taking on a legendary figure is a lot harder than some think. That does not mean that discussion or consideration of a challenge is akin to blasphemy, but that is how the establishment seem to be reacting. This is very interesting in light of Indiana’s most recent primary.

An article in the state’s largest newspaper by Matthew Tully titled, “Far-Right Attack on Lugar Would Be Just Wrong” went to an interesting source in the defense of Senator Lugar. (By the way, just out of curiosity I need to ask Matthew, whom I talk with often, if he has ever written an article with a title saying anything about the far left being wrong.)  Tully quoted former Director of the Republican Party, Luke Messer, as a defense of Lugar’s 84% record of support in voting with the party this year. Messer stated that Lugar is “deeply respected by Republicans.”

The irony of this goes to the very reason why so many in the base of the GOP are upset with Senator Lugar. Luke Messer nearly defeated Congressman Dan Burton in May, in part, by saying that the Congressman had been there too long. Burton has been a Congressman six years less than Lugar has been a Senator. Yet, Messer does not seem to have the same concerns about Richard Lugar’s 34 years. There’s a difference, of course, between Lugar and Burton. Representative Burton is a consistent conservative. Yet, when he had five challengers in May, no one in the Indianapolis Star or the political establishment, and certainly not Luke, the former State Party leader, spoke of Dan Burton as an untouchable legendary Hoosier icon who deserved respect and a free pass through the primary.

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