The Tea Party Movement came to power in 2009, demanding that the federal government take serious action to deal with the growing deficits and skyrocketing national debt threatening this country.
Someone has to stop the spending. A Republican president with a committed Senate and House majority of conscientious conservatives will provide for this country working leadership that will demand that the federal government put an end the spend, spend, spend trend in this country.
Tea Party elements have damaged some GOP races, in which the primary fights in Blue states promoted a consistent conservative ahead of a more likely moderate winner, only to see the Democratic contender take the senate seat. Such was the sad outcome in Delaware in 2010, where a dubious moderate, Mike Castle, was a statewide shoo-in to win the seat.
However, accommodating conservatives like Robert Bennett of Utah and RINO-cum-Democrats like Arlen Specter were both pushed out of Congress in 2010. Grass-roots voters in the Northeast and even in deep red states in the Midwest are demanding purity and consistency from their elected representatives. For long-standing legislators like Richard Lugar of Indiana, their lengthy stay in Washington has caused them to drift toward the center, toward open bipartisanship, and more spending.
Business as usual in Washington D.C. has created a crass entitlement culture, one which is bleeding this country dry. Politicians who have stayed in Washington for the greater part of their public lives inevitably lose touch with their constituents and the damaging effects of more government in Americans' daily lives. Richard Lugar, an amiable man who has reached across the aisle one too many times, does not even own a home in his home state of Indiana, so accustomed has he become to the ways and means of Washington.
Indiana State Treasurer Richard Mourdock is challenging this longstanding incumbent, railing against him for a soft Star treaty which has given up too much to our Russian frenemies. Like many of his more centrist colleagues, Lugar voted to raise the debt ceiling without serious budget and spending cuts. Now more than ever, voters are demanding that their leaders demand in turn less from the government and cut as much of Washington out of our lives as possible.
Richard Lugar has done an acceptable job, up to now. Yet his open warmth with one of the most liberal-progressive presidents in history has hurt this Hoosier's brand. Not just because they want a change, as Columnist George Will had posited, but because the voters in Indiana want to representation that takes out nation's economic crises seriously, this is why Senator Lugar is polling so far behind, and we he is certain to lose the well-fought GOP primary on May 8.
My support goes to any conservative who will not just argue, but demand change and frustrate any attempts to support the statist status quo of unimpeded entitlement spending and government growth.
Indiana Senator Richard Lugar is one more GOP incumbent who better be prepared to rest in peace.
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