D(on't) G(o) A(way) M(ad) J(ust) G(o) A(way) Richard Lugar

John F Kerry, the haughty French looking Massachusetts Democrat, who by the way served in Vietnam, is not happy Dick Lugar is going by by.

John Kerry Laments Dick Lugar’s Primary Loss

Dick Lugar’s long tenure in the Senate will soon end, and John Kerry isn’t happy about it...

...Kerry lamented Lugar’s defeat in a lengthy statement released to press Tuesday night.

"This is a tragedy for the Senate and the loss is particularly felt by all of us who have been privileged to serve with Dick on the Foreign Relations Committee,” Kerry said. “It’s a blow to the institution during a period when the institution itself has been strained. Whether he was serving as Chairman or Ranking Member of our Committee, wielding the gavel or working the floor, Dick’s approach to governing was always the same: he wanted to find serious answers to some of foreign policy’s most vexing questions. He’s a class act and a gentleman and in a Senate that has seen so much change and transition these last years, his expertise on complicated issues honed over 36 years simply can’t be replicated. …

Dick’s Nunn-Lugar efforts have become almost shorthand for bi-partisanship in foreign policy, and they should be recognized. But for me, on a personal level, two other efforts stand out as epitomizing who Dick is and why he’ll be missed. For me, it started with the work we did together in the 1980′s to help bring about free and fair elections in the Philippines. …...

I love how Kerry calls this man's defeat a tragedy. No John, a tragedy is the bombing of the Murrah Federal Building in 1995, the attacks of 9/11/01, the loss of the Challenger in 1986 and the election of Barrack Hussein Obama as President in 2008 (Thanks Beth for that one). This is just the end of the open career of a professional politician. I have no doubt he will start his second career making speeches and lobbying his former colleges, but he is not a footnote to history (Kinda like you John, also ran in 2004!). In one hundred years no one will remember the name Lugar but we will (hopefully) remember 911, etc.

Lugar is a throw back to a gentile type of Republican that Democrats like Kerry love to serve with. Willing to cross the aisle (i.e. giving into Democrats) as long as they occasionally through him a bone. Good riddance. He is a poster child for the need for term limits on the Congress.

Again Dick, DGAMJGA!