Posted on 05/20/2009 9:09:52 AM PDT by rabscuttle385
Tax protesters target him for backing $350B bailout for banks.
BY ROBERT GEHRKE
In his third term in the Senate, Bob Bennett finds himself in unfamiliar and unfriendly waters, roiled by public frustration with Washington and with at least two sharks circling, believing the Republican senator might be vulnerable.
Attorney General Mark Shurtleff is expected to announce his Senate bid today and Tim Bridgewater abandoned his bid for state party chairman last week, saying he heard all over the state that delegates wanted a more conservative choice for senator.
Bennett was a prime target of tax protesters at "Tea Party" rallies last month, who booed the junior senator for supporting a bank bailout last year; conservative state legislators are breaking with Bennett and lining up with his challengers; and Shurtleff's internal polling shows Bennett might have cause for concern.
"In uncertain times there is always an instinct to say, 'Well, throw everyone out,'" Bennett told The Salt Lake Tribune last month at a campaign event when he hosted Mitt Romney, who is wildly popular in Utah GOP circles. "I don't think frankly that it goes beyond a certain minority of the members of the party, but it's clearly there and that's one of the reasons we are starting early and organizing so thoroughly, because we want to be sure we're ready for it."
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Agreed. RINOs be damned
Exterminate the RINOs who voted for any of BO’s disastrous deficit measures. There is no excuse for such deceit.
THIS IS THE YEAR! THROW THE BUMS OUT IN THE PRIMARIES
NEVERMIND WHO SPENDS WHAT ON THE ELECTION CAMPAIGN- PICK ANYONE BUT THE INCUMBENT IN THE PRIMARIES
YOUR VOTE IS WORHT 1000 TIMES MORE IN THE PRIMARIES BECAUSE SO FEW PEOPLE VOTE IN PRIMARIES
Bennett’s ACU rating is 83.6 lifetime, but just 64 in 2008, which is truly amazing given the fact that Utah is one of the reddest of the red states. Throw the bum out.
TARP was a Bush-Paulson production.
Anyone supported by that fraud Willard and his legion of brainless Romneybots needs purged from the GOP political landscape forever.
Mark Shurtleff: opposed codifying marriage in the constitution and opposed establishing English as the official language of Utah. He also supports giving licensing illegal aliens to drive. Perhaps somebody can look for a Non-JAG veteran, maybe a soldier or marine who has served on the ground and has the outlook of a Reagan Republican.
Bush wasn’t a conservative, and Paulson was just a shill for Goldman-Sachs.
While I supported Bush for the War on Terror, I detested everything else the faux-conservative open-borders illegal immigrant-loving fool did.
THROW MOST (Federalists / Conservatives excluded) OF 'EM OUT! 
Agree. 
No money to the RNC. Send any money directly to the conservative candidate.
YOUR VOTE IS WORHT 1000 TIMES MORE IN THE PRIMARIES BECAUSE SO FEW PEOPLE VOTE IN PRIMARIES
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Yes it is and people need to get up off their as*es and get out there and vote in the primaries in record numbers. NO RINOS. Floridians, get out there and get rid of Crist.
No money to the RNC. Send any money directly to the conservative candidate.
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Done, done and done. I got my little *special* 2009 card a couple of weeks ago and of course, a request for donations. I wrote a letter, told them why I would not be donating and told them I would donate to real conservative candidates, not the them so they could support RINO’s and I sent it back in their prepaid envelope. I usually provide the postage, this time I didn’t. I’m sick of them using my money to support people I can’t stand.
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