| − | '''Richard Green "Dick" Lugar''' (born April 4, 1932) is the senior [[United States]] [[Senator]] from [[Indiana]]. He is the most senior [[Republican]] in the United States Senate and would claim the almost meaningless position of [[President pro tempore]] if Republicans gained the majority during his tenure. '''A big government, foreign interventionalist [[neocon]], Lugar was one of the two most [[liberal]] [[Republican]] senators''', and he lost in a landslide defeat in his own primary in 2012 to a [[conservative]] challengert [[Richard Mourdock]]. | + | '''Richard Green "Dick" Lugar''' (born April 4, 1932) is the senior [[United States]] [[Senator]] from [[Indiana]]. He is the most senior [[Republican]] in the United States Senate and would claim the almost meaningless position of [[President pro tempore]] if Republicans gained the majority during his tenure. '''A big government, foreign interventionalist [[neocon]], Lugar was one of the two most [[liberal]] [[Republican]] senators''', and he lost in a landslide defeat in his own primary in 2012 to a [[conservative]] challenger, [[Richard Mourdock]]. |