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Indiana Senator Richard Lugar lost a Republican primary challenge last week by over 20 points to State Treasurer Richard Mourdock. Lugar, who’d been a U.S. Senator for six terms (36 years), was considered a moderate and Mourdock a conservative.
The predominate view in the mainstream press was that Lugar’s loss was a tragedy, a sign that the Tea Party was taking over the Republican Party, and that the world as we know it, is coming to an end.
Candidate Barack Obama famously said when running for the Presidency nearly four years ago “There is not a black America and white America, and Latino America and Asian America: there’s the United States of America.” Those were certainly encouraging words. But it turns out, that’s all they were.
One out of three. That’s the chances Democrats have of taking back the House of Representatives in this November’s elections according to Speaker John Boehner. And of course that would mean once again – Speaker Nancy Pelosi. (Oh, the humanity!)
What would a Pelosi II look like?
Political pundits have predicted that this will be one of the most negative Presidential campaigns in American history. And it might. But it doesn’t have to be. At least from the Republican side.
First of all, I think the majority of Americans are ready for a change, from the change.