Dems See ‘Pick-Up Opportunity’ In Indiana Senate

[ProSense]

Dems See ‘Pick-Up Opportunity’ In Indiana Senate

DSCC Executive Director Guy Cecil issued a memo Wednesday morning suggesting that Indiana Senate nominee Richard Mourdock would be the next Ken Buck, the tea party nominee in Colorado in 2010 whose extreme positions cost him his Senate race. “By defeating Dick Lugar and nominating Richard Mourdock, the Tea Party has done it again, handing another strong pick-up opportunity to Democrats,” the memo reads. The memo outlines areas where Democrats think Mourdock is too extreme, making him vulnerable even though he’s a Republican in a red state:

Mourdock spent $2 million of taxpayer money on a lawsuit that could have endangered 124,000 Indiana jobs – including 4,000 high paying jobs in Kokomo, Indiana – by killing the Chrysler’s bankruptcy restructuring. Mourdock called the lawsuit his “Rosa Parks moment.” Mourdock’s Tea Party opposition to the entire auto industry rescue could have cost the state 140,000 jobs in total.

In his defense, Mourdock says, “I didn’t take a pledge that I would support every job in Indiana under whatever means it takes to do it.”

Mourdock says that “I think there needs to be more partisanship” in Washington.

Mourdock has questioned the constitutionality of Social Security and Medicare.

It concludes: “Last night’s results make Indiana a prime pick up opportunity for Democrats. There are a lot of longtime Lugar supporters waking up this morning and looking for a mainstream moderate. Richard Mourdock’s ideological extremism doesn’t fit the bill. Joe Donnelly does.”

http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entries/dems-see-pick-up-opportunity-in-indiana-senate

[uponit7771]

1. The Bagger is a nut case, he'll try to "etch a sketch" too

[TheCowsCameHome]

2. This makes me very uneasy.

The fact this 'Bagger, looney tunes or not, got this far is unsettling.

He's one step closer the getting elected.

[LaydeeBug]

3. not at all. Lugar hasn't lived there for *years* (Makes me wonder why his last dem opponent didn't

use that tidbit.

[karynnj]

5. He had no opponent six years ago - and he was incredibly popular

[ProSense]

4. It's time for

some serious GOTV efforts. The lunatics are doing it.

[WI_DEM]

6. Let's hope so--nothing would surprise me. Indiana at its core is a fairly conservative state.

[Fawke Em]

8. Yes, but it's old-style conservative.

As in "Dick Lugar" style. I don't think a good chunk of the state gets into this loony tunes Tealiban idiocy too much.

I, for one, hope the Tealiban-controlled GOP keeps over-reaching.

[dmallind]

7. oh the joy of a good joke!

I presume they are not seriously thinking a Dem would win a statewide race in IN. That 08 anomaly really turned some brains if so.

[Fawke Em]

9. Umm... Birch and Evan Bayh

Granted, Evan was/is a blue-dog, but so is the Democrat who is running this year. Blue dogs still hunt in Indiana.

[dmallind]

12. Umm 2012

Not going to happen. I'd happily wager on that.

[ProSense]

10. Well,

Evan Bayh won his last election with 300,000 more votes than Lugar: 1.4 million vs. 1.1 million, respectively.

Defeating the lunatic Mourdock is possible.

[FSogol]

11. Make it so. K & R.

[yellowcanine]

13. Mourdock called the lawsuit his “Rosa Parks moment.”

Yeah that works. Compare your stupid job killing lawsuit to an icon of the Civil Rights struggle.

[gratuitous]

14. I think it is a pick-up opportunity

And, if nothing else, it will cause the RSCC to spend some money in Indiana that they hadn't planned to spend on Lugar defending his "safe" seat. That's money they won't have for spending in other states.

[Bake]

15. True. On the other hand, the GOP money bag seems to be bottomless.

The Koch Brothers will gladly pony up a few more million.

Bake