Dick Lugar: From top target to tea party pal? WCP:HELL NO!

Published February 1, 2012 | By dditton

Folks, we need to STOP Politico from letting this headline stick.This crap is contagious.

Please go to the article on Politico and let ‘em have it in the comments. We must make sure that this load of bovine excrement doesn’t spread.

From Politico:

Last year, Sen. Dick Lugar was the tea party’s top target — a 35-year veteran who lives in Washington, strays from conservative orthodoxy and even criticized the right-wing movement in the wake of the 2010 elections.

But last week, Lugar was the tea party’s dining companion.

For more than two hours at a restaurant in Carmel, Ind., Lugar sat face to face with the head of one of Indiana’s largest tea party chapters, speaking at length about campaign politics, the senator’s voting record and some of his comments that have irked the movement. Lugar listened patiently and said he’d do more outreach, as he ate his eggs Benedict and peppermint ice cream.

“I was surprised,” said 62-year-old Chuck Ford, president of the Tea Party of Hamilton County. “I don’t usually dine with senators and congressmen.”

Read the rest at Politico.