Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Orrin Hatch endorses Marco Rubio
Washington Examiner ^ | 2/22/16 3:49 PM | Ryan Lovelace

Posted on 02/22/2016 2:44:52 PM PST by pilgrim

Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch endorsed Florida Sen. Marco Rubio for president, the senator's staff confirmed to the Washington Examiner.

Hatch is one of the highest ranking Republicans in Congress, and he is third in the line of the succession to the U.S. presidency as president pro tempore of the United States Senate.

The six-term senator had previously endorsed Jeb Bush and sought the Republican presidential nomination in 2000. Hatch's endorsement could be interpreted as a sign of the party's governing class rallying to Rubio.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Arizona; US: Florida; US: Iowa; US: Kansas; US: Nevada; US: New Hampshire; US: New York; US: Ohio; US: South Carolina; US: Texas; US: Utah
KEYWORDS: 2016election; arizona; bobdole; election2016; endorsements; establishment; florida; gope; iowa; johnkasich; johnmccain; kansas; lindseygraham; marcorubio; nevada; newhampshire; newyork; ohio; orinhatch; orrinhatch; rubio2016; rubioendorsement; senatorjohnmccain; senatormccain; southcarolina; stoptrump; tedcruz; texas; trump; uniparty; utah; washingtoncartel
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-80 ... 101-104 next last
To: exit82

These guys so want illegals as laborers for their donors, it is embarrassing.


21 posted on 02/22/2016 2:52:39 PM PST by Williams (Dear God, please save us from the Democrats. And the Republicans.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 16 | View Replies]

To: pilgrim
My gawd, is he still alive?
22 posted on 02/22/2016 2:53:57 PM PST by cloudmountain
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: pilgrim

The Aging Whore......


23 posted on 02/22/2016 2:55:11 PM PST by stephenjohnbanker (My Batting Average( 1,000) since Nov 2014 (GOPe is that easy to read))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Williams

No, they want illegals in here so they can be controlled. White, law-abiding taxpayers cannot be controlled. That’s why the elites are pushing hard for amnesty.


24 posted on 02/22/2016 2:55:15 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Yuge 2016)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 21 | View Replies]

To: pilgrim

Welp. I know who I won’t be supporting at all.


25 posted on 02/22/2016 2:56:58 PM PST by chris37 (heartless)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: pilgrim
Orrin Hatch who gave you Mc Cain (GOPe - loser)
Orrin Hatch who gave you Romney (GOPe - loser)
Orrin Hatch who wanted to give you Bush (GOPe - loser)
Now
Orrin Hatch who wants you to vote for Rubio (GOPe -?)
Does anyone else see a pattern here ??
Why does the GOPe ignore us , but wants our money, and our vote ?

Buttkiss !
26 posted on 02/22/2016 2:57:43 PM PST by Tilted Irish Kilt ( British historian Arnold Toynbee - Civilisations die from suicide, not by murder.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Sasparilla

It amazes me the gOPe cannot see what they have done.

The anger against them should be evident somehow!!

Take care.........pilgrim


27 posted on 02/22/2016 2:57:54 PM PST by pilgrim
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 7 | View Replies]

To: pilgrim

I am shocked. /s


28 posted on 02/22/2016 2:58:30 PM PST by jospehm20
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: kabar

Levin is an anycockledoo Republican.


29 posted on 02/22/2016 2:58:35 PM PST by stephenjohnbanker (My Batting Average( 1,000) since Nov 2014 (GOPe is that easy to read))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 19 | View Replies]

To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

30 posted on 02/22/2016 2:58:52 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: All

Orrin Hatch is, I hate to say it, a poster child for the term limits movement.

I disagree with his endorsement of Rubio - but that’s really not the point here.

The point is that no one, regardless of whether they have GOP or Dem after their name, should be holding office for this long.

I can’t help but think that many of our Founding Fathers would likely say “Institutional knowledge is one thing but the tenure of someone like Orrin Hatch is not healthy for this nation”.


31 posted on 02/22/2016 2:59:44 PM PST by MplsSteve
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: datura
Ted has already been endorsed by Utah's good U.S. Senator. Mike Lee is worth a dozen Chicken Hatches.
32 posted on 02/22/2016 3:00:06 PM PST by Vigilanteman (ObaMao: Fake America, Fake Messiah, Fake Black man. How many fakes can you fit into one Zer0?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 11 | View Replies]

To: pilgrim

Kiss of death.....the opposite of Robert Reich ‘condemnation’ of Cruz
(Cruz should put it in an ad)

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2016/02/robert-reich-endorses-ted-cruz.php


33 posted on 02/22/2016 3:00:57 PM PST by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: pilgrim

Establishment endorsing the Establish Candidate “Plan B” Rubio.


34 posted on 02/22/2016 3:01:02 PM PST by Enlightened1
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: pilgrim

“RINO Two this is RINO One - You Copy?”


35 posted on 02/22/2016 3:02:08 PM PST by TTFlyer
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: pilgrim

I remember Hatch smoothing out Courtney Love. That was a big deal and helped usher in some fresh blood. :)


36 posted on 02/22/2016 3:02:25 PM PST by Read Write Repeat
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: pilgrim

Just when I am ready to reconsider Rubio, we see Dole, Hatch and Pawlenty and Tillis on board. All people I thoroughly detest. This RINO on rally around Rubio may backfire and help Trump. Tin ears everywhere you look in Washington.


37 posted on 02/22/2016 3:02:27 PM PST by ilgipper
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Vigilanteman

Mike Lee isn’t picking sides between friends Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio

By DAVID M. DRUCKER (@DAVIDMDRUCKER) • 2/17/16 1:37 PM
Mike Lee is scheduled to campaign with Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio, declining to choose sides in the Republican presidential primary between his two closest allies in the Senate.

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/mike-lee-isnt-picking-sides-between-friends-ted-cruz-and-marco-rubio/article/2583448


38 posted on 02/22/2016 3:03:02 PM PST by newfreep (TRUMP & <S>Cruz</S> 2016 - "Evil succeeds when good men do nothing" - Edmund Burke)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 32 | View Replies]

To: pilgrim

Yawn..... they all got their marching orders from the GOP — no Trump and no Cruz. It’s disgraceful the way this is unfolding. They clearly don’t want to win.


39 posted on 02/22/2016 3:03:05 PM PST by jersey117
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: pilgrim

Another RINO patrician endorses his elitist counterpart.

How typical!


40 posted on 02/22/2016 3:03:31 PM PST by Roman_War_Criminal (What to do? Vote for a Dominionist or an Atheist?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-80 ... 101-104 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson