Would you like to see Orrin Hatch replace John Ashcroft as U.S. Attorney General?

KSL Radio ^ | 11/9/2004 | The Doug Wright Show

[JCEccles]

KSL Radio "Unofficial" Online Poll

Q: Would you like to see Orrin Hatch replace John Ashcroft as U.S. Attorney General?

73% : Yes

27% : No

[7.62 x 51mm]

What kind of *damage* can he do as AG?

[dennisw]

Hatch is a flake.

[P8riot]

I'd rather see Jim Gilmore

[DOGEY]

Hatch couldn't get a number of judges approved. He's a whiner and friend of the Swimmer.

[freddiedavis]

that depends...will senator hatch be replaced by a democrat

[JCEccles]

What kind of *damage* can he do as AG?

Not much, I don't think. Say what you will about Hatch, but he's not devious, deceitful, and underhanded. If anything he's too golly-gee pollyannish. The career bureaucrats at DOJ would keep things moving on an even keel.

[pawdoggie]

I'd like to see Orrin Hatch replace Mr. Rehnquist as the Chief Justice. I know that a lot of one issue conservatives think that Hatch has compromised too much, but it's that lack of confrontational aggressiveness that would make it difficult for the Left to torpedo a Hatch nomination. Having secured a lifetime Supreme Court appointment he has clearly coveted for some time, Orrin Hatch would be freed of the need to "work with" Liberals whose behavior (at least) he must, as a devout religious person, privately despise. I'm convinced that we would see a different, and for the better, Orrin Hatch.

[daddyOwe]

No! I thought he had a singing career ahead of him.>sarcasm off

[housewife101]

ABSOLUTELY NOT!!!!!!!!!! From where did this idea come?

Goodness sakes,I hope not!

[Revolting cat!]

Interesting. The first Songwriter-American as an Attorney General?

[silent_jonny]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I was gonna post exactly that, except maybe with one or two more O's. The next AG shouldn't be any sitting senator.

[capitan_refugio]

A poll on KSL (Salt Lake City) is hardly going to be eye-opening. Hatch is a good man, but I don't think he has the "killer instinct" to make a good AG. Too much time in the Seante. I'd take Rudy G. any day.

[Texas Songwriter]

Hell no. Hatch is a platyhelminth.

[Ditto]

Let's see. How about the next Dirty Harry movie with Don Knots replacing Clint Eastwood.

[PBRSTREETGANG]

Never count your Hatch before he chickens.

[thecanuck]

Wasn't it Hatch who rushed before the cameras after 9/11 to tell the world that we were tracking satellite phone use of Al Queda after which they promptly quit using satellite phones? Would such a glory seeker not be a risk to both the President and the nation?

[Zionist Conspirator]

Not especially.

[Arizona Carolyn]

No, too weak. If he had been more forceful Bush's judges would have gotten through.

[AuH2ORepublican]

Hatch is too wishy-washy to be an effective AG, and frankly I don't think that Levitt would be such a great Senator (didn't Levitt prove to be quite liberal on some issues?). How can the State of Utah, which gave President Bush over 70% of the vote, have such few solidly conservative Senate candidates?

[newzjunkey]

Please get your facts straight. From Hatch's official Senate website:

[Hatch] was awarded a full honors scholarship to the University of Pittsburgh Law School... In 1962, he received his Juris Doctorate, graduating with honors.

After receiving his law degree, Senator Hatch was a practicing attorney, first in Pennsylvania then in Utah, until his election to the United States Senate in 1976.