INDIANAPOLIS — A handful of supporters of U.S. Sen. Richard Lugar, who lost a bid for re-election to State Treasurer Richard Mourdock in Indiana's May 8 Republican primary, have launched a drive to support Democrat Joe Donnelly, Mourdock's ...
Richard Lugar in last week's Indiana Republican primary, you might think that something horrible has occurred, like a plane crashing into a mountain. How could such a thing happen to such a “bipartisan statesman”? President Obama was one ...
The tea-flavored wing of today’s Republican Party demands ideological purity ... have chosen to retire rather than face the ideological purge. Moderate Democrats are calling it quits, too, as they tire of the Washington standoff.
Richard Lugar in Indiana's primary by constitutional conservatives was in large part fueled by anger over Lugar's willingness to work with Democrats. The proverbial last straw for the Indiana Tea Party movement came with Lugar's vote for the ...
WASHINGTON – Republican moderates are no longer a dying breed. With Tuesday’s defeat of Sen. Richard Lugar of Indiana, they are dead. Known as Richard Nixon’s favorite mayor when he ran Indianapolis back in the 1970s, this rock-solid ...
Indiana will get a new look in Washington next year after tea party- favorite Richard Mourdock knocked off six-term incumbent Richard Lugar in the Republican Senate primary and voters in at least three U.S. House districts prepared to elect fresh faces.
Apparently there's no room for statesmen in the U.S. Senate anymore. Republican Sen. Richard Lugar of Indiana, who fits that description as few others on Capitol Hill do, was thoroughly trounced in his primary Tuesday by state Treasurer Richard Mourdock, a ...
Indiana Senator Richard Lugar describes himself as a “Reagan Republican,” which in today’s politics makes him a moderate. Soon he’ll describe himself as an ex-senator, because moderates have no place in today’s Republican Party, as Lug ...
By DONNA CASSATA Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - Far from politics, six-term Sen. Richard Lugar is considered a visionary who looked beyond U.S. exuberance over the end of the Cold War and saw the dangers and opportunities in the collapse of a nuclear ...
