Richard Lugar,  Richard Mourdock

In-Sen: Richard Mourdock Vs. Sen, Richard Lugar – A Rebellion Inside the Walls?

Experience the excitement of Richard Mourdock’s announcement that he’s running against “Barack Obama’s Favorite Republican”- Dick Lugar.

Perhaps, but there is a lot of Tea Party in the Mourdock video, no? Read this interview at National Review.

NRO: What happened to Richard Lugar?

MOURDOCK: First of all, as I always say, I have great respect for Senator Lugar. Anyone who serves almost 50 years in public life deserves the respect of everyone. But I think, and I hear it often, that Senator Lugar is now perceived here in Indiana as having a worldview rather than a Hoosier view. I think there comes a time — and I don’t care who you are, Democrat, Republican, man, or woman — that if you spend enough time in Washington, D.C., you become disconnected from your electorate. I certainly think that’s happened in this case, and that’s one of the reasons we’re running as strong as we are.
 
NRO: As you travel around the state, do people react more to an explicit ideological argument, that Lugar isn’t conservative enough, or is it more that no matter his politics, he’s been there a long time and it’s time for a change?

MOURDOCK: I hear both sentiments. I’m among the first to note that during the period of the Reagan presidency, Senator Lugar voted more with President Reagan than any other Republican senator. Well, that’s great, but since then he’s also voted for [Supreme Court justices] Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Elena Kagan, and Sonia Sotomayor, and he was even the only Republican to vote for [President Obama’s deputy-attorney-general nominee] James Cole barely a week ago.

Mourdock has secured support inside and outside of the mainstream Republican Party in Indiana.

Time for Senator Richard Lugar to accept his well-deserved thanks for his decades of service and retire.