INDIANA - Another newspaper (Tribune-Star) endorses Donnelly over Mourdock

[TroyD]

EDITORIAL: Donnelly shows he can serve citizens of all parties

Mourdock’s disdain for bipartisanship disqualifies him

October 31, 2012

The Tribune-Star

TERRE HAUTE — This fall, Richard Mourdock has tried to move away from the mantra that helped him defeat Sen. Richard Lugar in the Indiana Republican primary last May. Those words won over the hard-right wing of his party then, but look woefully problematic to most Hoosiers participating in a general election.

Before the primary voting, Mourdock said, “We need less bipartisanship in Congress.”

Later, on national television, he declared, “I have a mindset that says bipartisanship ought to consist of Democrats coming to the Republican point of view.”

He is running for the U.S. Senate seat that Lugar had filled wisely and independently for 36 years, until Mourdock and his backers declared the respected senator too liberal and too compromising. Now, with the general-election duel with Democrat Joe Donnelly tighter than expected, Mourdock has moderated his tone in an effort to appeal to skeptical Lugar supporters, who include Republicans, Democrats and independents. A Super PAC ad even ludicrously implied that Lugar was “passing the torch” to Mourdock, despite Lugar’s notable refusal to endorse or campaign for Mourdock.

The reality is, Lugar warned that an inflexible approach to opposing viewpoints renders a U.S. senator ineffective. “Parties don’t succeed for long if they stop appealing to voters who may disagree with them on some issues,” the senator said in May. It doesn’t take a political scientist to figure out who Lugar meant specifically.

Adding to our discontent with Mourdock were his comments on a debate question about abortion in the case of pregnancy as a result of rape. Without impugning his views on the sanctity of life, we have to say we were offended and shocked, as were many, by the awkwardness and lack of clarity in his words. That Mourdock would leave any doubt whether rape is the will of the Almighty was ill-thought — to a question upon which he should have been well-practiced. We cannot begin to imagine Sen. Lugar answering that same question so clumsily or in a way that appeared so insensitive to rape victims and women generally.

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[SingleSeatBiggerMeat]

1. To The Good People Of Indiana.....I Am Begging You.....

If you send this asshole to the Senate, he is going to be there for six fucking years.

[Newsjock]

2. Terre Haute has a proud labor history

http://www.vigo.lib.in.us/subjects/genealogy/timeline/historical

General Strike
In 1935, a labor dispute between Columbian Enameling and Stamping Company and Federal Labor Union #19694 made national headlines. As tensions increased on both sides, the union, protesting the importation of out-of-town "strike breakers," called for a labor holiday. A general strike closed down business and transportation in the city of Terre Haute on July 22, 1935. National guardsmen moved into the county, as Governor Paul V. McNutt, acting on a request from the mayor, ordered martial law. Tear gas was used to disperse the pickets. The two-day general strike was called off, but the strike at the mill continued and martial law was in effect for six months. This was the third general strike in the history of the United States.

[ProudProgressiveNow]

3. Well done piece.

Thanks for posting.

[BlueDemKev]

4. Come on, Indiana...

...even if you vote for Romney, does this mean you have to vote for a theocratic nutjob like Richard Mourdock?