Long-serving moderate Indiana Republican Sen. Richard Lugar, ousted in a primary this year by a weak Tea Party candidate, is going out swinging, assailing the GOP’s election operation for being “completely obliterated” by the Democrats, and accusing some conservatives of abandoning the Constitution to pledge allegiance to a “some pledge,” presumably like Grover Norquist’s anti-tax pledge.

In an address to the middle-of-the-road Ripon Society, Lugar also assailed today’s 24/7 campaigns, outside interest groups and Congress’ “bunker mentality” for the gridlock in Washington.

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