Time to grow up, cut the strings and say good-bye to Howdy Doody - Tea party favorite topples Lugar, Indiana's 6-term senator

Good riddance to the biggest appeasing Country Club Republican who voted to go along with about anything the Democrats in the Senate wanted.


Mourdock better beat the Democrat!
Let's see if Hatch is the next appeasing Country Club Republican out.

Tea party favorite topples Lugar, Indiana's 6-term senator - Washington Times

Tea-party-backed candidate Richard Mourdockdefeated longtime<$> Sen. Richard G. Lugar of Indiana in Tuesday’s GOP primary, ending the career of one of the chamber’s two senior Republicans and giving Democrats a better chance at capturing the seat in November.

The race was widely seen as a key test of tea party anger against incumbents two years after that same sentiment disrupted a number of Republican races and powered insurgent candidates to wins across the country.

Already, a challenger in Utah said the race is a model for his bid to unseat Sen. Orrin G. Hatch, another veteran senator under fire for his record of trying to work with Democrats in the Senate.

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