Weekly RINO Roundup

- Dick Lugar Doesn't Support the Republican House passed CR- A 1.6% cut in the budget is evidently too draconian for him.

- Scott Brown:  "I'm not a tea party member". - I guess it is the Ted Kennedy seat after all.

- Ousted Rino Bob Bennett (UT) said that Republicans need a presidential candidate who will not focus on ideological purity.   In other words, we need someone different from Bennett who was an ideological purist for the left.
- Chris Christie attacks Sarah Palin once again for supposedly be scripted.  Christie is good for New Jersey, but we need to keep him far away from national issues.

John Danforth is Wrong About the RINOs

Recently, reports have been circulating in the Capitol Hill newspapers that conservatives are planning to challenge Dick Lugar and other RINOs in 2012.  Last week, former Missouri Senator John Danforth gave the following assessment of a potential primary challenge to Lugar:

“If Dick Lugar, having served five terms in the U.S. Senate and being the most respected person in the Senate and the leading authority on foreign policy, is seriously challenged by anybody in the Republican Party, we have gone so far overboard that we are beyond redemption.” 

This is simply one of the most preposterous statements concerning electoral politics that I have ever heard from a once respected Republican official.  Richard Lugar is the leading Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, yet there is not a single policy issue in which he differs from the Democrat Chairman John Kerry.  John Kerry is one of the most radical Senators in American history, but Lugar has supported every one of his appeasement policies; from his dealings with Israel to his support for unilateral disarmament with Russia.  He fought Senator Jessee Helms at every turn in order to promote Kerry's policies.  If the Republicans win back the Senate in 2012, Lugar would be slated to be the chairman of that committee.  I challenge Mr. Danforth to list one policy that Lugar will change from Kerry's tenure as leader of that panel.  The only difference will be that we will own all of the moral relativist, appeasement, and anti-American exceptionalism driven policies that emerge from that committee.