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Article: REPUBLICANS MIGHT LOSE THE LAWYER VOTE, BUT ...
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- Post-Tribune (IN)
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- March 10, 1989
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Commentary
Mark Lubbers was a senior aide to former Gov. Robert D. Orr and is vice president of the Indianapolis-based Hudson Institute.
One of the great traps for the party out of power is the allure of guerrilla warfare, especially if - like the Indiana Republicans - the party finds itself on the outside looking in for the first time in two decades.
The burden of governing requires discipline - like an army's discipline. It requires defending positions you don't fully support and compromising with people you don't even like.
If the new Democratic state government intends to lead, the Bayh administration and Democrats ...