[samadams2000]

Well I guess we can’t nail all of their skins to the wall.....

[MplsSteve]

That’s too bad. I hope the primary challenger put a scare into hatch though and he changes some of his ways.

OTOH, a big primary win like this could make him feel bullet-proof and he’ll still continue to be a pain in the butt.

[dead]

Escape Hatch survives again.

[LRoggy]

The Palin effect strikes again?

[Oatka]

Now many in Utah know how we in Arizona felt when our old RINO won the primary.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

Look at it this way - prior to the rise of the Tea Party, Hatch facing a credible primary challenge would have been inconceivable. There’s a lot of work yet to be done, but the statists have been served notice.

[VRWC For Truth]

Hatch was cooked until Palin stepped in like she did with McLoser. Hatch will screw Conservatives. Just watch.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Good.

[bkopto]

Well, time for the old RINO to go back to his old ways, now that he bamboozled the Utah primary voters.

[EternalVigilance]

The 2-1 margin of victory was a surprise to some observers considering that Hatch's fellow former senator Bob Bennett was defeated at the convention even before the state primary vote in 2010.

Romney Republicanism buried the Tea Party in the Utah GOP in the interim. That's a fact.

It's an obvious harbinger of what is coming in the Republican Party everywhere henceforth. Take that to the bank.

It's time to build a principled alternative.

[Tzimisce]

It’s a great day to be liberal.

[microgood]

I guess we will continue to run trillion dollar deficits ad infinitum.

[wardaddy]

I’m gonna go with Mark Levin on this one as usual

Hatch ...imperfect ..has carried big water on SCOTUS nominees for GOP presidents

hence...I can live with him in the senate

likely his last term

[dadfly]

humm. i’m no fan of hatch (levin’s endorsement notwithstanding), and would support any conservative sounding opponent against hatch the fossil (boy do we need term limits), but the size of liljenquist’s loss tells me he was probably a very weak candidate. he should have done much better against hatch.

i’ll cut my losses. if he shows up again (even against hatch) i won’t support him.

[johnthebaptistmoore]

Dan Liljenquist was a weak candidate with not as much money as Senator Hatch, and his claims to be a member of the TEA Party were, also, in question, with, as an example, his comments about having tax increases being possible solutions to some of the country’s economic problems. Still, I would of voted for Dan, despite all of these things, if I was a Utah voter, because Senator Hatch has been a U.S. Senator for way too long.

[pistolpackinpapa]

Orrin Hatch..... the original supporter, and big-time promoter, of “The Dream Act” wins by a 2 to 1 margin. Hmmmmmmmmmmm.......... guess the Hispanic vote is more prolific than we thought.

[bmwcyle]

Corollary - Electing the same person over and over and expecting a different outcome is insanity.

[Rockitz]

Too bad.

[IbJensen]

This is the singular event that would make his old pal Teddy happy in hell.

[Theodore R.]

Liljenquist is just too difficult a name for the people of UT to understand. They will stick with their hatch.