Posted on 05/08/2010 12:15:32 PM PDT by opentalk
A Republican senator from Utah is set to lose the party's nomination on Saturday and become a high-profile casualty of the Tea Party movement.
After 18 years representing the western state, Bob Bennett, 76, faces the wrath of party activists who think he has drifted too far to the middle ground and become too identified with broken central government.
He will be opposed at caucuses by eight opponents all to his Right politically who have all sought the endorsement of the state's active Tea Party groups.
Under Utah's quirky rules, without 40 per cent of the vote at Saturday's party convention he cannot proceed to a Republican primary in June to decide who will represent the party in November's midterm election.
Whichever Republican is chosen will almost certainly win, as Utah is one of the most solidly Republican states in the US and has not returned a Democrat to the senate since 1977.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Bennett has been a problem a long time..
I agree, the good thing about the tea party movement is the removal of out-of-touch career politicians.
Cry me a river. Bennett thought he could play with the statists and they just used him.
Gosh, does this mean Bob is gonna have the Salt Lake SWAT team come out for the next SLC Tea Party??
“fiscally conservative democrats...” Say WHAT?? I seem to remember of few noted PRO LIFE democrats who recently did what ALL democrats (and RINOs) do best...betray their constituents and the American people. There ARE no conservative democrats. And especially not in DC.
This is too long. Seems the longer they are in office the more elitist and big government they become.(IMO)
John Conyers
A Democrat, he has served since 1965 . In January 2007, Conyers became chairman of the House Judiciary Committee -
The irony --
correction, council
WOOT!
Nice.
David Obey too.
Term limits are one thing, but age limits are another. Some of the least rational thinking members of congress are much younger.
Age has nothing to so with it.
Those who think the tea party's time has come and gone is deluding themselves.
Never, ever, ever. Their first vote is for Pelosi and Harry Reid or whoever wins their party caucus vote. There has not been any Democrat in Congress in a long time who deserves the vote of any conservative. The only Dem at the national level who could be considered conservative that I can think of is Zell Miller. And he was just too stubborn to switch to the Dems, he was a Republican in all but name.
They can endorse in the Dem primary if they want, but they should never endorse a Dem in the general election. They can also withhold endorsement of liberals who call themselves Republican, I have not problem with that.
Actually, where I live that is exactly what the Tea Party has shown itself to be. Its endorsement here was for a guy that voted to raise state employee pensions and raise taxes. But, he was the popular choice of the GOP in crowd.
If the Tea Party follows your advise, it is destined for failure.
The scent of power is intoxicating. I am reminded of that WWI song: How you gonna keep ‘em down on the farm once they seen Paree?” It changes them.
Find me a Democratic Congresscritter who is seeking Tea Party support. If one does, the DNC will cut off his money stream.
Some Republicans are closed socialists, but the base of the party is not, and many, if not most, of the politicians are not socialist or progressive.
Some freepers make a fetish of being "independent" but the facts of life in a big boy world are that there are two parties and there always will be, in a winner take all, non-parliamentary system. The only way for conservatives to have influence is to take over one of those parties. Otherwise, they are destined to be a fringe, loser movement.
In addition, your mistake is that you accept someone who calls themselves the "Tea Party" to actually be a party that represents the Tea Party Movement. There is no Tea Party, it is simply a movement of people who want to restore the constitution and end the takeover of our government by global socialists.
“What good is a RINO when they are window dressed liberals in the first place?
“I.E. Olympia Snowe, who is the best friend of the DNC.”
Well, she is from Maine. They would not elect a conservative there. So Snowe is infuriating but better than a rat. OTOH, having a RINO from Utah is inexcusable.
You may be correct. I’m a fiscal conservative. If a dem is strong minded that way and the republican is not, I’ll vote for them. It is the single most important issue at this point.
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