Posted on 04/21/2012 1:53:43 PM PDT by Hojczyk
The Tea Party movement is alive in Utah. With representatives from FreedomWorks in the audience, delegates at the Utah Republican Convention managed to force Sen. Orrin Hatch into a June 26 primary. He got 59.2 percent of their votes against Dan Liljenquist, a 38-year-old state senator. Hatch needed 60 percent to avoid the primary. He couldn’t do it. In two rounds of voting, he went from 2,243 votes to 2,313 votes. If he’d gotten 32 more votes, he would have wrapped this up…
FreedomWorks and other Tea Party groups now have two Causes to distract them from their failure to replace Mitt Romney with some better candidate — the Senate races in Utah and Indiana.
Yeah, the last point is key. 59.1 percent sounds hopeless for Liljenquist if it’s an accurate reflection of Republican voters in Utah, but there’s bound to be a burst of tea-party enthusiasm for him now that he and Richard Mourdock are the last best chance to tilt the GOP further right at the federal level. Hatch did himself no favors either when he said this recently of his opponents on the right, FreedomWorks:
“These people are not conservatives. They’re not Republicans,” Hatch angrily responds. “They’re radical libertarians and I’m doggone offended by it.”
Then Hatch, a former boxer, turns combative. “I despise these people, and I’m not the guy you come in and dump on without getting punched in the mouth.”
In case you’re wondering, Hatch and Dick Lugar, who’s also seeking another six-year term, have spent a combined 70 years in the Senate. Exit question from Ace’s co-blogger rdbrewer: Did Hatch’s comments about despising “radical libertarians” alienate just enough delegates to prevent him from wrapping this thing up today?
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Doggone it! I like this story. Thanks for posting.
Liljenquist has my support!
I wonder if he's ever talked that way about Democrats or liberals.
Nope. Never.
They are all "my good friend...."
Glenn Beck had Hatch’s opponent on his radio show on Thursday. He told everyone to vote for him.
thank you Glenn!
>>But Beck, Boortz and maybe even Rush ( and others ) are gonna be all over it<<
Beck ran it Thursday of last week. I heard it while waiting from my girls to come out of choir. He had Hatch’s opponent on then too.
Yes and I wrote his name down. My point is it will now be a choir, much like the fervor that was in less than one month, i.e. the rise of Scott Brown. Hopefully this will be different, but again a Lion of the Senate will be replaced.....
How is FreedomWorks a Tea Party cause when the Tea Party primaried Sen Bob Bennett (R-UT) and he’s one of their Fellows?
Senators Hatch and Cornyn have a good fiscal plan, and Hatch’s experience would give it a better chance to be passed rather than a newbe.
Mark Levin supports Hatch, so he must be pretty conservative.
Some conservatives are so anxious for perfection (ain’t no such thing) that we might end up losing more than we gain.
It’s good to replace liberal Republicans, but let’s not go crazy in trying to replace conservative Republicans just because we want a change.
A month or two ago, Dick Morris on Hannity's TV show called Orrin Hatch a RINO and said he ought to be primaried out. Strange that Morris is staking out more conservative territory than Levin. Doubly strange that the term RINO was actually used on FOX (the second time in as far back as I can remember, the other being Megyn Kelly saying she didn't like to use the term, but playing devil's advocate on Romney). I'm pretty sure as the Republican Party sycophants FOX News is, they've tried to ban the term RINO from their airwaves, since the only people it can ever hurt are the establishment elite Republicans that they're in bed with.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Liljenquist
Before starting his final year of law school, he interviewed with Bain & Company.
After joining Bain, he moved with his wife Brooke to Dallas, Texas where he worked for the global management consulting firm as a strategy consultant from 2001 to 2003.
His voting record as excerpted on Wiki looks good, except for these...
HB 477 (Yea): Controversial Bill amended state Government Records Access and Management Act to exempt legislators' instant messages, voice mails, video chats, and text messages from public access.
HB 1001 (Yea): Requires the state to repeal HB 477, which restricted access to certain information under the Government Records Access and Management Act.
SB 53 (Yea): Vote to pass a bill that prohibits judges from awarding attorney fees to plaintiffs in successful public interest lawsuits filed against the state government after May 12, 2009.
He followed the Tim Geithner tax plan...
On January 3, 2012, the day before Liljenquist announced his plans to run against Senator Hatch, The Salt Lake Tribune reported that he had neglected to pay his taxes on time. Liljenquist told the paper that "he was shocked to hear...that he was on the delinquent taxpayer list," and stated that his wife "immediately drove Tuesday to Davis County offices to pay the $2,904 in late taxes and penalties owed."[13]
He survived a plane crash where most of the passengers died. Pretty lucky...
Liljenquist was traveling in Guatemala with CHOICE Humanitarian when his plane crashed in a field. Eleven of the fourteen people aboard the aircraft died.[14] Liljenquist broke his right leg and left ankle in multiple places.
Not sure he has much of a chance to beat Hatch. I just don't remember hearing Hatch's name pop up on that many outrageous votes. I know he was not one of the gang of 5 or 6 that voted for Kagan. I'm much more enthusiastic about seeing Lugar go, who has seemed like a clear RINO to me for a long time, and did vote for Kagan. Scott Brown for one is more of a RINO than Hatch.
From your typing fingers to God’s Ears!
That is where Bob Bennett lost in 2010. However he only got something like 26% of the convention votes which was 3rd place thus he didn’t get into the primary.
I ment Bill Bennett the talk show host, who can be RINO-ish at times. Thanks for the refresher on Bob Bennett...
GOOD! That putz needs to get booted
“Oh, great, Hatch’s opponent has a direct Romney connection...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Liljenquist
Before starting his final year of law school, he interviewed with Bain & Company.
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Thanx for all that good info. in Post #32.
Don’t count your Hatch before he chickens.
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