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After Hearing from Conservative Donors

By: Ashbrook (Diary)  |  April 29th, 2012 at 05:59 PM  | 

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American Action Network has ended its campaign in support of  liberal Senator Dick Lugar. But Congressman Eric Cantor’s Young Guns program continues to campaign for Lugar and against conservative Richard Mourdock.  Why Cantor’s group even entered this Senate race is a mystery. But it is spending conservative dollars to demonize Mourdock.

Mourdock has earned the support of Steve Forbes, The NRA, The Club For Growth, and the American Conservative union.

Lugar has earned the title, Obama’s Favorite Republican. As the senior Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee he has legitimized Obama’s United Nation’s centered foreign policy and on numerous occasions he has backed Obama on domestic issues as well. Couple this record with his age and you would think even the Republican establishment would understand it is time for him to be retired.

But that is not the case. Cantor’s involvement is indefensible. The Young Guns program was established to elect new Republicans to the House. No donor supported the program to back an ancient (he is 84 years old) liberal Senator who should never have run for re-election.

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  • mikeymike143

    and cantor’s PAC was set up to elect young conservative republicans to the house. instead it is spending huge amounts of money to attack a conservative republican in order to help an aged liberal in a senate race. wouldnt that donor money be better used to support republicans in the general election?

    i supect there will be a lot of backlash against cantor over this.

  • http://www.rightspeak.net/search/label/-Right%20Wingnut rightwingnut2

    …announced this decision several hours after Palin endorsed Mourdock. It could be a coincidence, but I’m inclined to think it was a major factor.

  • mikeymike143

    the establishment understands that the defeat of this career politican means that they will actually be held accountable to their constituants for being conservative. that why you see trolls posting all this pro lugar/anti murdock stuff.

  • zachv

    … and also a signal that whoever’s trying to enlist the help of Democrats is in trouble. Canter/Lugar and Santorum’s final campaign days.

  • http://travismonitor.blogspot.com Freedoms Truth

    If they were doctors not politicians we could sue them for their unprofessional and dangerous actions.
    If they were trustees of this money they could be sued for violation of fiduciary responsibility.

    This goes beyond stupidity to active malfeasance and an ‘own goal’ on the conservative cause.

    Henceforce, “Young Guns” is now the “Old Fogies”.

  • Dave_A

    Moreso then they are worried about anything else…

    The issue isn’t one of their own power – if the leadership had any real power to influence local primaries & used it to reward loyalty & punish dissent we’d have been rid of Ron Paul a long time ago…

    Nor is it really one of ‘danger’ to any of the folks in the top chairs – they are all from safe districts & will never face a primery challenger who has the ability to get it done…

    What it comes down to, is that the Establishment will always support a safe incumbent over a primary challenger, because that’s one less seat that will be ‘in play’ in the general election.

    The question is one of ‘do we really want to gamble with this seat’ – sometimes those bets pay off, sometimes they don’t…

    Oh, and remember that Rubio and Crist were competing for an essentially open seat, it wasn’t a case of a longtime ‘safe’ incumbent vs an insurgent challenger.

  • http://www.onejerusalem.org Ashbrook

    Very well said Freedoms Truth. Old Fogies they are.

  • http://www.onejerusalem.org Ashbrook

    When he ran for State Treasurer he led the ticket as he gained 61% of the vote.