State Democratic Chairman Dan Parker says he gets frequent inquiries from potential candidates about the possibility of running for U.S. Senate in 2012.  Not 2010.  2012.

That’s the year that Indiana Republican Richard Lugar will be on the ballot, if he chooses to seek another term.  Lugar is now 77 and in his 6th term in the Senate. 

All indications are that Lugar will go for term #7 but there is growing unrest among some Republicans upset with Lugar’s support of Obama moves (including the selection of Sonia Sotomayor for the Supreme Court) and his failure to campaign for John McCain last year.

All that put Lugar’s recent statement on health care reform in an interesting light.  When the Senator said this is the wrong time to tackle the President’s pet issue, was that a signal that, indeed, he will run again?  That’s what Parker thinks.