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...“He has a great sense of political realism,” says Dick Lugar, the former Republican lawmaker who was Mr McConnell’s Senate colleague for nearly three decades....
...Moderate Republicans like former Senators Dick Lugar and Olympia Snowe have been forced out of Washington. The radicals hold sway. And they certainly are radical....
...Dick Lugar, a Republican senator from Indiana who championed the bill but who has been ousted from office, and Ben Cardin, a Democratic senator from Maryland – say that it was a “minor miracle” that it made...
...Mr Mourdock, a Tea Party conservative who ousted the moderate Senate veteran Dick Lugar for the Republican ticket, was asked during a debate on Tuesday night if he supported abortion in the case of rape...
...The party sacrificed Richard Lugar on the altar of Tea Party purity in its primaries....
...This year, the NRA has helped to unseat Republican establishment candidates for the Senate, such as Richard Lugar in Indiana and David Dewhurst in Texas, and instead installed candidates with perfect records...
...But it’s a real shame that there are no new Lugars on the horizon....
...In Indiana, Democratic candidate Joe Donnelly has drawn even in a campaign where he is running as a centrist against Richard Mourdock, the Tea Party disciple who ousted Republican incumbent Dick Lugar in...
...In May the movement succeeded in ousting Dick Lugar, the six-term Republican senator from Indiana and a bastion of bipartisanship, from the Republican ticket and replacing him with Richard Mourdock, who...
...The result went against the tide of Tea Party victories in this year’s Republican primaries, including Ted Cruz’s victory in Texas and Richard Mourdock’s defeat of Richard Lugar in the Indiana Senate primary...
...But there are two sides to every story, and Mr Lugar failed to make his....
...The movement has been enthused by the shock victory of Richard Mourdock, the Tea Party-backed candidate who managed to oust six-term Republican senator Dick Lugar in the Indiana primary earlier this month...
...Dick Lugar, the six-term Indiana senator and renowned nuclear disarmament advocate, has lost the Republican nomination for the seat he has occupied for 35 years, following a fierce challenge by Richard Mourdock...
...To prove the point, Club for Growth’s latest ouster: Republican Senator Dick Lugar....
...Lugar defends his record in office Richard Mourdock accuses Dick Lugar of not being a true conservative: The charge: Mr Lugar supported President Barack Obama’s nomination of Sonia Sotomayor and Elena...
...That was evident in Indiana, where Democrats enjoyed a surprise victory, taking over the seat held by moderate Republican Dick Lugar for 36 years....
...Centrism in US politics was dealt another blow with the resounding defeat of Dick Lugar, a six-term Republican senator from Indiana and bastion of bipartisanship, in a brutal primary challenge....
...Tea Party activists in Indiana pulled off a stunning coup earlier this month by bumping six-term incumbent senator Dick Lugar from the Republican ticket and installing their candidate, Richard Mourdock,...
...Much attention has been paid to the success of conservative Tea Party-backed candidates, such as Richard Mourdock of Indiana, who explicitly said he would not work across the aisle when he ousted Dick Lugar...
...After more than three decades in the Senate, Dick Lugar was not gracious when he lost his seat this week, saying his Tea Party-backed opponent’s “unrelenting partisan mindset” would cement gridlock in Washington...
...Nevertheless, Mr Lugar’s proposal is still unlikely to fly – and for reasons that are rich with irony....
...Tea Party activists enjoyed a big victory this week, ousting Dick Lugar, the six-term senator, from the Republican party’s nomination for his seat in favour of the more conservative Richard Mourdock....
...Again, a tight Senate race for the seat long held by moderate Republican Dick Lugar, defeated in his party’s primary by Tea Party adherent Richard Mourdock, could produce a bigger than expected turnout,...
...Notably, it succeeded in ousting six-term Dick Lugar in Indiana and replacing him on the ticket with Richard Mourdock, but it failed to do the same in Utah, where Orrin Hatch has retained the nomination...
...Senators Ben Cardin and Richard Lugar inserted into the Dodd-Frank regulatory reform bill a requirement that US-listed oil, gas and mining companies report publicly their payments to host governments....
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