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The Spectacle Blog
(Photo Credit: Indianapolis Star)
Senator Dick Lugar’s Political Director, David Willkie, in response to an NRA-funded attack ad, sent out a scathing email to Senator Dick Lugar’s campaign supporters yesterday, claiming a tie rival Richard Mourdock frequently wears is a Confederate flag.
From the email:
Friend,
There’s wild elk in Indiana!
… and we’re not talking about a patriotic fraternal organization!
Wait… put down your gun.
That’s not an Indiana elk… (if so, it would be one of the first wild ones since the Civil War when guys sported Confederate neckties like Richard Mourdock’s).
No, this elk is part of a political TV ad… more of Mourdock’s out-of-state film footage, ominous music and political bullying by his D.C. special interest groups!
Mourdock has denied it is a Confederate flag, noting that it was purchased at a Republican state convention and is simply a pattern of stars and blue stripes.
Accusations of Confederate flag ties in Senate campaigns are not new. In the 1994 campaign in Virginia, then-candidate Oliver North accused Senator Charles Robb of wearing a similar tie. In that situation, it turned out to be a tie worn by the 1860s group of southern sympathizers in England known as the Anglo-Confederate Society.
Also, the far-left Media Matters raised the same accusation against Glenn Beck, who wore a tie on air similar to Mourdock’s.
Multiple times, Willkie refused to comment to TAS about the email. But he responded to Politico’s Dave Catanese by adding a childish accusation: “PS, We also hear that Mourdock dyes his hair. But you be the judge… lol”
Whatever one says about Mourdock’s fashion sense, such cheap accusations are surprising to hear coming from a long-serving Senator known for his foreign policy expertise and civility.
But when Mourdock is busy pointing out that Lugar voted to mandate greenhouse gas emissions, supported Medicare Part D, and endorsed both the auto and Wall Street bailouts, Lugar’s campaign is making it clear they will try anything to win the May 8 primary.
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Bill| 4.12.12 @ 4:22PM
Ruppert Murdock will be the next Rand Paul, Mike Lee, and ..................
Red Phillips | 4.12.12 @ 5:16PM
As someone who is an unashamed Southerner who is sympathetic to the Confederate cause (just ask all the Lincolnphiles on here who argue with me) that tie is supposed to be reminiscent of the Confederate Battle Flag. I own one that is very similar and frequently see them for sale at Southern heritage type events.
What real conservatives should want to know is why Lugar thinks wearing a Confederate tie is a bad thing (much of southern Indiana was sympathetic to the Confederacy and is populated by people who were originally from the South), and why Mourdock's reply isn't "Dang right it's a Confederate tie! What's it to you?"
It’s also disgraceful that a so-called conservative like Oliver North would call out his opponent for wearing a Confederate themed tie. PC grandstanders are disgraceful cowards..
Clint| 4.12.12 @ 6:59PM
Lincoln,
“I have always thought ‘Dixie’ one of the best tunes I have ever heard."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....ntrinter=1
PCP Smoker| 4.12.12 @ 9:48PM
RINOs always act beastly toward conservatives. That's nothing new. Their so called civility is based on accepting liberal premises. Come on IN, throw out this pathetic carpetbagger called Lugar
cali| 4.13.12 @ 9:22AM
Not only do I like your comment; I also agree!
Lugar is not even a rhino - since he has mentored barrack obama, I believe he agrees with everything obama does and, say.
It was lugar, who took obama in 2007 to Russia; where obama was detained at the airport for three hours, his passport confiscated.
It took Bush for obama to be released by the russians; o I wonder what the russians know that we don't and, whether they are blackmailing obama.
Lugar is fully aware what went on and, should be asked about it. I am even positive that he voted for obama - his special student.
Mick Lee| 4.13.12 @ 8:12AM
In a classic kettle calling the pot "black", Lugar has also smeared Mourdock by stating that Mourdock is already "bought" by Washington by taking money for his campaign from non-Hoosier organizations: Conservative Pacs and (particularly) national organizations like Club For Growth. That Lugar also accepts money from out-of-state entities is largely not disclosed and local media papers it over.
In any event, a great number of Hoosiers will vote against Lugar because he has shown more interest in getting/keeping a reputation for being a "statesman" (in other words, carrying water for the other side at critical junctures) than representing Indiana. We should have been alarmed long ago when Lugar first started getting the “strange new respect” regard from Democrats and Washington pundits.
TarponGman| 4.13.12 @ 12:06PM
Hmm... "a long-serving Senator known for his foreign policy expertise".
Does this expertise include adamently pushing the New START treaty in which we are required to downgrade our nuclear arsenal to be in compliance and the Soviets, excuse me, I mean the Russians, are required to do absolutely nothing except continue to demand concessions on missle defense?
Kristi| 4.13.12 @ 2:04PM
What moron would vote for a candidate based on a tie?