Posted on 02/26/2011 3:12:27 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Republicans must "be careful" before nominating a presidential candidate identified with the Tea Party movement, a veteran former senator said Friday evening.
Former Sen. Robert Bennett (R-Utah) warned his party against nominating a candidate too quickly after the early caucuses and primaries, urging the GOP to instead pursue someone with more national appeal.
"If you're going to nominate a national candidate, don't make the mistake of assuming that those who attend the early caucuses and the early primaries speak for the nation as a whole," Bennett said on Fox News. "If you're going to have a national candidate, you'd better have a national view."
Bennett was ousted from the Senate after losing renomination at a state convention to a Tea Party candidate, Mike Lee, now the Republican senator from Utah. He said that many of those Tea Party nominees, though, in other Senate races cost the party a shot at the majority in the upper chamber.
That should serve as a "cautionary tale" to Republicans as they look to nominate a candidate for president, Bennett said.
"The Republican nominee has almost always been closer to the center than the center of gravity in the Republican Party," he explained.
Maybe they should be asking Witch Murky.
John McCain? Bob Dole? really, should we go that way again?
Thanks for the advice, loser.
Before one may govern, he/she must be elected.
We will not decide who will be the next President, nor will the far-left. Rs and Ds wil always each get about 38 to 42% of the vote.
It's the middle of the roaders, the independents, who decide national elections. We will need a candidate who can attract them, not a Sharon Angle or Christine O'Donnell.
The same guy who said the Constitution is not at risk?
The same guy my friend saw reading girly magazines in the DC airport some years back?
Pushing RINO Romney off ont6o us ...
Romney is not a TEA Partier so that is who bennett has to mean...
“national appeal” ???
Slippery as a banana peel but hardly our cuppa TEA...
“cost the party a shot at the majority in the upper chamber. “
yes it cost the RINO’s a shot at continuing to milk us dry for the communist takeover we see happening...
They are scared as hell, anyone on the left, they can see We the People will Not crawl into the graves they dug for us.
We Shall Not Be Overcome!!!
EL
“If you’re going to nominate a national candidate, don’t make the mistake of assuming that those who attend the early caucuses and the early primaries speak for the nation as a whole...”
Bill, BOOBY, with scant few exceptions, you mean like the candidates typically nominated by the go along to get along, establishment country club Pubbies in the past?
That’s most likely why the nation has become a fiscal BLACK hole.
“If you’re going to nominate a national candidate, don’t make the mistake of assuming that those who attend the early caucuses and the early primaries speak for the nation as a whole...”
Bill, BOOBY, with scant few exceptions, you mean like the candidates typically nominated by the go along to get along, establishment country club Pubbies in the past?
That’s most likely why the nation has become a fiscal BLACK hole.
Ditto!
It’s not like he’s biased or anything./s
We cant rock the GOP RINO boat, can we?
This kind of thinking is exactly why Bennent lost his primary. You really get to see how these guys view governing, leadership,and conservatism after they no longer have to pretend. The problem is what we are hearing from him is the idea that we should strategize so that our candidate is a milquetoast one. Even the Tea Party candidates who lost did better than McCain. We didnt win this last election by acting like spineless tapioca filled bags of mush.
This kind of thinking is exactly why Bennent lost his primary. You really get to see how these guys view governing, leadership,and conservatism after they no longer have to pretend. The problem is what we are hearing from him is the idea that we should strategize so that our candidate is a milquetoast one. Even the Tea Party candidates who lost did better than McCain. We didnt win this last election by acting like spineless tapioca filled bags of mush.
Regardless who we run for president, one fact will be clear in 2012 Bennett”
More RINO’s like yourself along with a lot more democrats will be voted out in 2012.
Bennett is a jerk. He couldn’t have picked a worse time to move to the left, as the election clearly showed.
You lost, Bennett. Now get a real job.
That's all you need to know. Former Senator. What a whining baby. You are an out of touch RINO Bob. That's why you got thrown out.
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