If you believe State Treasurer Richard Mourdock and followers of the Indiana tea party movement, then the Indiana Chamber of Commerce, the Indiana Manufacturers Association and Gov. Mitch Daniels are supporting a radical liberal for the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate.
In the view of Mourdock and the tea party, voters are better served by getting rid of Richard Lugar, an immensely knowledgeable, well-respected senator, and replacing him with the hard-core right-wing conservative Mourdock, the candidate who holds the more extremist views. For example, he wants to get rid of the departments of Housing and Urban Development, Energy, Commerce and Education. Eliminating those departments and the programs they oversee would have monumental consequences, and yet Mourdock is ready to jettison them with little regard to the effects.
A few peripheral issues have largely dominated the campaign, including Lugar’s residency and Mourdock’s property tax breaks. The real question that separates them, though, is a senator’s role in governing.
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