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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.

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.