The Tea Party movement is all about forcing Republicans to return to their roots. We don't want to work with the Democrats or make liberal legislation more conservative. It's this compassionate conservatism, reaching across the aisle crap causing frustration that in large part is driving this movement.
Do you think that since Sarah endorsed McCain that the Tea Partiers will NOT go after him? I mean; Sarah is front-and-center of the Tea Party. So, how could they work to defeat McCain, whom she endorsed.
Conservatism is compassionate: it needs no qualifiers.
Giving money to street bums, drug addicts, and the indolent is murder by inches, not compassion. Keeping disruptors in classrooms isn't compassionate to the other 19 or 25 kids who learn nothing, and ultimately isn't compassionate to the criminal element either. Allowing American businesses to use Mexican illegals for hard labor with awful pay, no retirement, and medical benefits paid for by other taxpayers isn't compassionate to anybody, least of all the Mexicans whose youth gets devoured and thrown away.
Only a Republican who had some conservative instincts but never really understood the ideology of conservatism -- like GWB, his Dad, or anybody in the Bush family -- could come up with so warped a mischaracterization as "compassionate conservatism."
Bob Bennett had a decent record, but an overstay inside the confines of I-495 has made him squishy; he's been done a favor, though he may not yet realize it. If we can't replace him with a genuine conservative hell-raiser in Utah, we've lost completely and it's time to give up on the movement.
That is enough for me to say it's time for him to go. It's not as if these are small issues at all.