http://www.courierpress.com/news/2012/may/08/text-sen-richard-lugars-two-primary-election-state/

Even if Sen. Richard Lugar represents the Eisenhower Republican in it's most compromised form, he still represented the political as the art of compromise,in the realm of civic actors who placed the preservation and well being of the Republic as the central concern of that practice of politics.The zelots that have taken over the Party since 1964 are just consolidating their position of political nihilism, as opposed to a civic patriotism based on the a priori notion of the good faith of the political 'other'. The Republic is now inert, indeed moribund, in the face of the political machinations of the New Democrats and Republicans who have surrendered to hate, fear, hubris and political subversion from within. NDAA represents the efficacy of the played out national melodrama concocted after 9/11 by the Bush Restoration and simply echoed, albeit muted in tone, by the Obama Administration. War and State Terror without compunction or even a window dressing of redress, is the stark reality of this Republic May 2012.

Publius