Posted on 02/26/2011 3:12:27 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Republicans must "be careful" before nominating a presidential candidate identified with the Tea Party movement, a veteran former senator said Friday evening.
Former Sen. Robert Bennett (R-Utah) warned his party against nominating a candidate too quickly after the early caucuses and primaries, urging the GOP to instead pursue someone with more national appeal.
"If you're going to nominate a national candidate, don't make the mistake of assuming that those who attend the early caucuses and the early primaries speak for the nation as a whole," Bennett said on Fox News. "If you're going to have a national candidate, you'd better have a national view."
Bennett was ousted from the Senate after losing renomination at a state convention to a Tea Party candidate, Mike Lee, now the Republican senator from Utah. He said that many of those Tea Party nominees, though, in other Senate races cost the party a shot at the majority in the upper chamber.
That should serve as a "cautionary tale" to Republicans as they look to nominate a candidate for president, Bennett said.
"The Republican nominee has almost always been closer to the center than the center of gravity in the Republican Party," he explained.
Oh, the same person that beat his arse in the Primary? A non-RINO like Lugar and Murkowski?
STFU and collect your fat gub’mint pension, RINO.
**”The Republican nominee has almost always been closer to the center than the center of gravity in the Republican Party,” he explained.**
Read the book ...”Great Moderates of American History” ..248 blank pages.
Ford, GHW Bush, Dole, McLAME all great Moderates of the MUSHY MIDDLE and all ... LOSERS!!!
Last GOP to Run as a REAL CONSERVATIVE (REAGAN) lead two 49 state Electoral LANDSLIDES.
Our nominee will be Sarah Palin, if she wants it, and I think she does.
Says the guy who lost to a Tea Partier. What a loser! Is this rino part of the no-labels outfit?
So the GOP is expected to take the advice of a loser ... and a sore loser at that.
The RINo factor cannot be overlooked.
As far as “loseing a chance at the Senate’ - the National media is complict in that loss. Nobody has enough money to beat back the neditive 7x24 drumbeat of biased media outlets.
I saw the interview with this dickhead.Its no wonder why he lost to a tea partier.The guy is one arrogant egotistical ass.
Why does not this dispirited loser just quietly go away?
Ooooooo... made me spill my TEA......
BS
Can these guys tell us how in the world Ronald Reagan ever got elected, much less by a landslide? If he was in the middle, that’s the middle I’ll take.
They never worried about such things when they were voting for the “next RINO in line”.
Resistance is futile, RINO elites at the GOP-RNC...Prepare to be liberated.
We ain’t goin’ along with their dem-light candidates ever again.
From the jerks that gave us McCain!!! Please. They could not have done worse last time.
Dole? OMG. Another brillant choice from the DC elites.
We are taking back the party.
Get out of the way RINOs.
No Bob, what we should be careful doing is nominating RINOs like you, McCain, and Lindsey Graham.
By-the-way Bob, we Utahans will also be voting your good buddy Orin “My Good Friend Ted Kennedy” Hatch OUT in 2012. Notice how Hatch is all of a sudden becoming conservative since he saw he’s a target of the Tea Party!
We’re on the ascendency...RINOs and establishment types like yourself are on the road extinction!
“Bennett was ousted from the Senate after losing renomination at a state convention to a Tea Party candidate”
Sour grapes!
Who is Bennett? /s
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