A profile of Indiana Republican senator Richard Lugar from the New York Times this weekend contained this nugget of establishment hysteria:
“If Dick Lugar,” said John C. Danforth, a former Republican senator from Missouri, “having served five terms in the U.S. Senate and being the most respected person in the Senate and the leading authority on foreign policy, is seriously challenged by anybody in the Republican Party, we have gone so far overboard that we are beyond redemption.”
Does Danforth really believe that a primary challenge to an incumbent senator would mean the GOP is “beyond redemption”? Primary challenges are an American political institution, providing party activists the opportunity to promote fresh faces or better ideological representatives.
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