Posted on 12/23/2014 12:32:01 PM PST by cotton1706
Some prominent moderate establishment Republicans in Utah are plotting to target conservative icon Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) with a primary challenge in 2016.
Lee’s offense? He didn’t drink the Washington Kool-aid and see the D.C. cesspool as a jacuzzi after he ousted incumbent Sen. Bob Bennett (R-UT), who had supported the TARP bailouts, in 2010.
When Lee prevailed over Bennett, he gave other conservatives across the country hope that they could also defeat entrenched incumbents who cared more about preserving the status quo above all else. Once Lee arrived in Washington, he didn’t turn his back on the base, which angered some prominent establishment Republicans.
According to a report in Politico, moderate GOP billionaires like Jon Huntsman Sr. and “some powerful establishment Republicans in Utah are tired” of Lee’s conservatism and willingness to live up to his campaign promises instead of letting the D.C. establishment co-opt him.
During his first Senate term, Lee has established himself as one of conservatism’s leading voices. As Politico implies, establishment Republicans do not like him because he stood with Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) to defund Obamacare and has supported defunding Obama’s executive amnesty with Sens. Cruz and Jeff Sessions (R-AL). Most recently, Lee has offered positive solutions via his conservative reform agenda that specifically focuses on improving the lives of working Americans with conservative policies.
Huntsman, the father of President Barack Obama’s former Ambassador to China and failed 2012 GOP presidential candidate Jon Huntsman, reportedly has refused to meet with Lee because of his “extremely radical” positions against Obamacare and executive amnesty. Huntsman said the government shutdown cost his cancer research foundation millions in federal taxpayer dollars, and he predicted “a major primary challenge” against Lee, telling Politico that Lee is an “embarrassment” and “an extremist.”
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The Republican convention that year was in Chicago, btw. Funny thing about that.
Lincoln himself, in the interlude between his last Whig campaign and his first Republican one, left a lot of correspondence about his plans and why he didn't think an "independent" stab at public service would work. He stated his case in plain words, that a politician needs a party to act through, a major party. He sized up the political landscape and decided to back the new Republican Party, whose interests tied Prairie Freesoilers and development interests with the formerly Whig (and ex-Federalist) business and banking interests, which gave him the bones of a potentially successful regional combination to work with.
If the GOP-E "steal" the GOP for good, everyone who isn't a Communist and doesn't have $50 million, won't have a political party, either.
Uh, that’s a pretty wild set of alternatives. As they say, stupidity us doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. We keep electing RINOs, we almost got a good conservative elected in Mississippi, Duncan, and they use illegal crossover Democrats to defeat him, we take over Congress because the American public had it with amnesty and Obamacare and Boehner and his henchman give the criminal in Chief everything he wants.
I voted RINOS before and it got me nothing. Never again.
If Bush/Romney/McCain get nominated, I vote third party.
Who is Jon Galt?
I imagine Lee considers Huntsman an embarrassment and a statist extremist. Who cares what that guy thinks?
I agree. I will never vote RINO again. Unfortunately, too many Republicans place party over principle and the result is worse than voting straight Democrat.
John Galt was a coward. Real men stand and fight. Call them out and cut them down. ;)
Quite a change from the 60’s when, in Alabama, the ‘Rat primary was THE election.....
No. He will destroy a middle-of-the-roader in a primary and/or convention. I thought they meant that some of the powers-that-be would take some sort of revenge on him in DC...
Huntsman (Sr...or Jr....take your pic) is a hypocrite. In your linked article he states that private funding is best for (cancer) research.
Here’s an interesting article I found, on this subject, from someone who knew Sen Mike Lee’s dad, personally. Excellent points are made...
http://www.unconcon.com/?p=7239
Huntsman Sr is also a close friend of Glenn Beck. Makes me even more leery of Beck (through his associations), than I already was.
Thanks for the links to support Sen Mike Lee.
Huntsman touts federal funding, so let him depend on it, even more. Maybe some of their “private funding” will now go towards re-electing Sen Mike Lee.
He sounds like he’d be much happier as a dingy hairy contributor(and likely already IS one!).
As long as clowns like him are part of the GOP I won’t be and neither will I donate any $$$.
Anyone who thinks that Obama’s executive amnesty isn’t radical, but defunding it is, is a leftist.
If only the GOP could be rid of the Huntmans and Bushes and Adelsons...
It all comes down to whether or not conservative politicians are “bribe-able.”
That’s downright sad! I hope they managed to rescue that thing!
I don’t always vote Republican...
but when I do...
it is always for a Conservative Republican...
Stay Thirsty My Friend. ( ; )
DavidLSpud
Good luck-
Like Bachmann- even if you win!- the Demon party
will never forget- stay strong
They weren’t able to do this to him as a challenger to a long time incumbent...I seriously doubt they could do it to him as the incumbent himself, but who knows.
What in the world? Sorry for the “resurrection” of this thread. I have no idea where I clicked to make it show up as a ‘recent’ posted article.
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