Rest In Peace SENATOR Richard Lugar a True Statesman

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    IndyDave1776

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    Let's see...

    He was a sworn enemy of the 2A.

    His legislative claim to fame was an ongoing progression of farm subsidy bills that were built around corporate agriculture while throwing real farmers (I.e., people on tractors) a few crumbs and crowing like he was their savior.

    The close second was spending fantastic amounts of our money cleaning up cold war messes in Russia even before addressing many of our own to no benefit of any consequence.

    He was irredeemably arrogant and made it quite obvious while speaking to me that we commoners should let our "betters" do the thinking.

    He voted in favor of amnesty in spite of overwhelming opposition from his alleged constituents, and all those I know who contacted him received very shabby treatment.

    He displayed both in his legislative record and interacting with me personally that he held a deep sense of contempt for the Constitution and the belief he should follow it in spite of having taken an oath to do so.

    He presented while speaking to me in person a very insulting treatment of his anti-2A votes based on idea that people who care about their rights are simpletons who are too stupid to be trusted with their rights (which, by definition, are rightfully ours).

    Any way I can measure this, I can find nothing but a self-serving, arrogant self-styled patrician who stood as one of those domestic enemies of which our founders warned us.

    In due time, will we be similarly lamenting the loss of such ne plus ultra patriots and heroes as Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi, Dianne Feinstein, and Michael Bloomberg?
     
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    IndyDave1776

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    I actually knew him. He was in my fraternity, although older than me by many years, he would come to the fraternity house frequently. We jogged together. Good human but absolutely a 'politician' who betrayed those who voted for him, time after time after time.

    Lugar is one of the reasons I left the GOP and became a libertarian.

    The difference in our experiences is that you e experienced professional betrayal without personal enmity. In my case, he took a political issue and made it personal. Consequently, there are few people I truly hate and he is one of them.
     

    Trigger Time

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    RIP Traitor and Enemy of the Republic.

    The first and only time I ever voted for a Democrat was to make sure Lugar didn't get re-elected.
    Memory gets fuzzy sometimes but lugar got primaried i believe. So if you voted for a democrat you helped donnely(obamas bestie), beat mourdock(R) who had already beat lugar.
    Like i said, sometimes my memory gets mixed up
     

    TheDude

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    Votedfor a semi-automatic weapon ban in 1993 and to reinstate the ban in 2004.
    Voted for the Brady bill in 1993.
    Voted for more regulation of gun shows in 2004.
    Voted "to ban the importation of standard capacity magazines" in 1998.
    Voted "to commend the "Million Mom March", which has called for gun registration, gun show restrictions, and the semi-auto ban" in 2000.


    RIP Senator Lugar
     

    KG1

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    Votedfor a semi-automatic weapon ban in 1993 and to reinstate the ban in 2004.
    Voted for the Brady bill in 1993.
    Voted for more regulation of gun shows in 2004.
    Voted "to ban the importation of standard capacity magazines" in 1998.
    Voted "to commend the "Million Mom March", which has called for gun registration, gun show restrictions, and the semi-auto ban" in 2000.


    RIP Senator Lugar
    Yeah but he was a statesman. Statesmen don't have any use for things like the 2nd Amendment.
     
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