I can see the political ad now.
It starts out with our gray-haired senior senator, Richard Lugar, his mouth wide open, tongue out, eyes looking inebriated or fatigued. (You know, one of the images media consultants always find by advancing film frame-by-frame until they capture the most menacing visual of an opponent).
Lugar’s gray diminishes somewhat, and his boyish haircut slowly turns a bit darker and shorter. Suddenly, Lugar’s skin starts to tan at a noticeable rate, and his lips start turning purple until – voila – it’s no longer Lugar, but rather, President Barack Obama – the man who many in the GOP and/or Tea Party consider the single greatest threat to America’s principles since Elvis Presley shook his hips on national TV.
Guilt by association is commonplace, so I am not surprised by the press release Indiana State Treasurer and soon-to-be GOP senate candidate, Richard Mourdock, sent out today, in which he states that Richard Lugar used to be OUR senator but now he’s “Barack Obama’s favorite Republican.”
The release attacks Lugar for votes that are anathema for the philosophical extremists in the GOP/Tea Party while including as many connecting points to President Obama as possible:
- Lugar voted for Obama’s liberal supreme court nominees;
- Lugar co-sponsored Obama’s DREAM Act;
- Lugar voted against earmark reform;
- Lugar helped get the Start Treaty passed; and perhaps most damning. . .
- Lugar appeared in a TV commercial for Obama.
The release states boldly, “Simply put, Obama loves having Republican Senator Dick Lugar on his side.” (Apparently, voting against the opposing party 84%, as Lugar did in 2010, is now being on “their” side).
The rest of the story HERE.