Khephra
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Sun Apr-25-04 11:45 AM
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I don't agree with Lugar on much, but man, he's my type of Conservative |
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Gods, I wish there were more like him.
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Sun Apr-25-04 11:49 AM
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1. He really seems to agree with Biden's realist foreign policy |
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Sun Apr-25-04 11:53 AM
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2. the true conservative you can work with even if you disagree with him |
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lugar seems like one of those old time conservatives before the republican party became the disgusting partisan mess it is today. the type where you can disagree with him on the issues and debate on that issue without getting personal and even try to come to a common understanding and get things done.
lugar was also disgusted with bill frist's attack on richard clarke on the senate floor.
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Sun Apr-25-04 12:04 PM
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7. As a moderate/liberal Democrat: as a Senator, I see myself.... |
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getting along very well with people such as Richard Lugar and Chuck Hagel. I would be at war with Zell (Dick Russell's Love Child) Miller!
How Ironic!
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Sun Apr-25-04 12:10 PM
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8. Lugar is one of the last real "gentlemen" in politics |
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When he talks, it's from his heart and mind, not a list of Republican talking points.
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Sun Apr-25-04 11:55 AM
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3. yea, he and Rockefeller are in concensus about the Iraq idiocy |
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It's good to hear a couple of sensible voices from that madhouse called Washington DC.
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Sun Apr-25-04 11:55 AM
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4. He seems to have a bit of a conscious.. |
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too bad it isn't contagious.
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Sun Apr-25-04 12:00 PM
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5. he detests bush's incompetency in foreign affairs. |
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lugar and sam nunn sponsored a senate bill that became law to aid the dismanteling of the old soviet union's nuke programs and weaponry. the funding for this was cut when bush came into office, first by over $100M, then when lugar and nunn (then out of the senate) raised hell, funding was continued, albeit at a dramatically reduced level.
this program was to pay for the secure destruction of nuclear weaponry and provide money for ex-soviet scientists who were potentially about to sell their nuclear technology information to terrorists and "rogue" nations.
when bush decided to cut funding, lugar stood on the floor of the seanate and chewed george w bush a new asshole.
he dislikes bush and it shows.
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Khephra
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Sun Apr-25-04 12:04 PM
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6. That's one of the issues I really agree with Lugar on |
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The idiocy of not funding that program just shows how unserious the Bush Administration is about our security. Even my conservative Uncle has problems with Bush on that issue. It's a short-sighted approach to a long term problem that's a bigger threat than Iraq ever was to this country.
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Sun Apr-25-04 12:36 PM
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9. But, take this into account |
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the Director of OMB at the time was Lugar's friend and former political associate, Mitch Daniels who is now running for Governor of Indiana with the blessing of Bush. Indeed politics does make strange bedfellows doesn't it?
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Sun Apr-25-04 12:38 PM
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But wouldn't you rather have someone like Lugar (if you had to) rather than someone like Sessions or Delay?
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Sun Apr-25-04 12:39 PM
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11. He doesn't use form letters to respond to your emails either... |
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He is the ONLY Congressman, of mine, that does that.
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Sun Apr-25-04 12:43 PM
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Lugar -- about 10 letters returned.
Bayh - zip.
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Sun Apr-25-04 12:49 PM
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13. I get them from Bayh but.. |
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It is just some BS form letter..."thanks for contacting me...your thoughts are important...blah blah blah".
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Sun Apr-25-04 12:49 PM
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14. Even though he's a ReTHUG, I like him... |
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He sends personal letters, and I find myself agreeing with him a LOT more than I do, oh, say, John "Hostile" Hostettler the Gunsel or Steve "Honest, they called me up!" Boo-Yah....
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Sun Apr-25-04 12:52 PM
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15. He's also "quietly religious" |
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Doesn't he have some sort of religious degree? Yet, I hardly ever hear him bring up religion during bill discussions.
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Sun Apr-25-04 12:58 PM
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16. What was his position on counting ballots in Election 2000? |
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Sorry then, when the chips are down is when it counts. I'll do what I can to unseat him (I live in Indiana).
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