Posted on 12/22/2014 1:13:54 PM PST by cotton1706
It is extremely notable that Manu Raju of the Politico has written that the establishment intends to destroy Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT). Raju serves as the court stenographer for the Senate GOP leadership. His pieces are routinely littered with the conventional wisdom and talking points of the Senate GOP leadership. He has more than once anticipated Senate GOP leadership strategy based on their conversations with him.
So when Manu Raju says the establishment intends to go on offense against the tea party by beating Sen. Mike Lee in the Utah Republican Primary, we can be sure Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY), the NRSC, etc. will be stepping aside and failing to give Lee the support they gave Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS), etc.
Of note, the story focuses on Jon Huntsman, Sr., who remains well respected in Utah. Huntsman, you will recall, is the man who spread the rumors about Herman Cain in 2012, in an effort to help his son, Jon Huntsman the lesser, run for President. All he managed to accomplish was taking out Herman Cain and getting his granddaughter an MSNBC show.
But Huntsman is clearly planning on destroying Sen. Mike Lee to gain a tea party scalp and the GOP establishment in D.C. clearly plans on standing aside to let it happen.
And they have a financial advantage. Huntsman has deep pockets as does the establishment. Sen. Mike Lee needs to drive up his fundraising. We need to help him.
(Excerpt) Read more at redstate.com ...
People in Utah have been warned.
Past that, it is up to them to vote for Lee. If they fall for some RINO shill, then that is their own fault.
These politicians are doing what the Political Science 101 lectures have taught from our universities. Make yourself indistinguishable from the opposition. Then, at the last moment, pick one issue to set yourself apart from your opponent.
If I was him I would tell the state party leaders and any leadership in the GOPe that if they "boot" him out for the next election he will run as an INDEPENDENT!
He should ditch the GOP and run as a Conservative.
I have been immune to their whining for years. As are most thinking people.
We have the 60's hippie radical leftist Socialist/Marxist Democrat Party- whose main goal is to tear down the U.S. Constitution in order to control and oppress the American people- while party officials and favorites enrich themselves.
And we have the 60's hippie Socialist/Marxist (Democrat)Republican Party-whose main goal is to tear down the U.S. Constitution in order to control and oppress the American people- while party officials and favorites enrich themselves. They just want to destroy our nation at a slower pace than the radicals do.
Mike Lee and Ted Cruz are two of the very few exceptions to the above.
I hope Mike Lee can overcome whatever the low life slime-ball Gope is planning. We need more people like him in office if we are going to have a chance at turning the country around.
Hit them back. McCain is up for reelection in 2016. That would make an EXCELLENT scalp for the Tea Party if it knocked him out!
Mike Lee is my senator. He is very popular and very Conservative. I (and many others) will continue working for him. Go Mike!!!!!
Nope. It's Washington versus The Rest Of Us.
Yes. You’re right.
What is the GOP doing with a secretary who writes for Politico?
Knocking out McCain is the stuff of dreams. I so want him gone.
Erickson’s take doesn’t bear much resemblance to Raju’s article which cites Utah businessmen as the force against Lee and the National Republican Senatorial Committee as in his corner.
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