Posted on 06/25/2008 5:55:52 AM PDT by Aristotelian
Republican voters in Utah ousted Rep. Chris Cannon in Tuesday’s GOP primary, expressing their dissatisfaction with the six-term congressman over his left-of-center positions on immigration by nominating a challenger who made crackdowns on illegal immigration a central part of his platform.
Cannon was trounced by Jason Chaffetz, the former chief of staff to Gov. Jon Huntsman (R-Utah.) With 93 percent of precincts reporting, Cannon trails Chaffetz by 20 points – 60 to 40 percent. The AP has called the race for Chaffetz.
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Who’s the Democrat opponent?
I’m in Chris Cannon’s district.
The democrat opposition doesn’t matter, no Democrat even tries to oppose the Republicans. If you think I’m kidding, read this:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bryan-young/a-message-to-democratic-v_b_108095.html
I think it’s cute to go to the voting booth and see under ‘Democrat’ ‘None Listed’.
Well, McPain is BAD on immigration and so is Obama. But Obama is so much worse on everyhting else, its almost a no-brainer if you are a conservative.
Conservativism is far from dead.
But if McManiac and his pupeteers in the RNC can’t defeat Obama in Novvmber, the Republican Party IS or SHOULD be DEAD.
We need a NEW party - a conservative populist party.
I don't know and it doesn't matter. This district won't elect a dem, period.
But while Cannon's role in the impeachment trial undeniably gave him a place in the history books, he sadly committed political suicide by continuing to push for amnesty and deride the GOP base. This election really took me by surprise though. Cannon had a much higher profile primary race in 2006, and he won that one -- yet lost this one to a little known opponent.
One of the reasons why Graham and McCain might have stayed in office while Cannon got the boot is that Graham was smart enough to say he 'got the message" and would now sponsor legislation to "secure the border" the first. He then avoided any more talk about amnesty during the election season (McCain has too, though freeper Chicagolady discovered he has held "closed door" meeting with "hispanic groups" that he doesn't want us to know about) Cannon, on the other hand, remained unrepentant and defiant in pushing for "normalization" of the "undocumented" crowd, which had the same effect of Lieberman standing with Bush on Iraq during the Dem primary.
Also, Graham's primary challenger sought to "prove" Graham was too liberal by tieing him to McCain, nevermind the fact that McCain WON the South Carolina primary. I don't like that McCain carried S.C. either, but election results don't lie. It's pretty stupid to say someone is "out of touch" with his state by supporting the candidate that their state ended up selecting. The only thing it shows is that the challenger is the one in denial about how his state votes. You didn't see Cannon's primary opponent claim Cannon was "out of touch with Utah" because he backed Mitt Romney, did you?
As for Bob Barr, I think he did continue to prove he was a staunch conservative for the rest of his congressional career, but ever since he got defeated in 2002, he drank the libertarian party kool-aid and has since disavowed all the legislation he supported that conflicts the LP agenda. You have to remember the LP actually ran attack ads against Barr calling him "the worst drug warrior in Congress", and Barr has changed his positions so radically that he now wants to be THE president who will "end the war on drugs". And although he was the no. #1 Clinton critic in the House, he now actually says Clinton was a better President than Bush! Scary. Barr pimping for the party that worked to defeat him is like something out of the twilight zone.
That being said, I do think a lot of the House impeachment managers who risked their political careers to do what was right deserve more support than they get from freepers. Many of those freepers who promised to "never forget" the impeachment seem to have forgotten by the next election cycle and were bashing Henry Hyde for being wrong on one gun bill but supporting Clintonite scum like Peter King. And many of these freepers who whine about amnesty have only themselves to blame because they backed pro-amnesty politicians in the primary.
Bill McCollum had across the board A+ ratings from anti-illegal immigration groups, and many here derided him as an "unelectable loser" and a "RINO", and tossed him overboard in favor of "true conservative" Mel Martinez. Martinez CLAIMED he opposed amnesty, but many of us rightly pointed out DURING the primary election that his ACTIONS from the last 10 years showed this wasn't the case and that he was a Bush sock puppet and liberal trial lawyer who "used to" regularly donate to socialist Dems. Of course we were ignored and the "true conservative" Mel Martinez won the primary. Two years later, "unelectable" Bill McCollum won a statewide office during a big Dem year, and won by a far higher margin than Martinez had. Ironic, eh?
When it comes to the House impeachment, I will never forget what Tom Delay did in getting the impeachment vote taken and passed. He filled in the vaccuum created when the Clinton politics of personal destruction team took out Newt and then Livingston as speaker. They couldn’t and didn’t touch the Hammer. As far as bashing Hyde, you were not talking about me. Hyde was an original and true blue conservative and I can think of no one in the House who crusaded longer against abortion than Hyde.
Chaffetz is Huntsman's former chief of staff. Huntsman is Ahnold lite, complete with carbon credits. Let's hope Chaffetz isn't just another rino spacetaker like his former boss. I have very low expectations after following world order Huntsman's antics for the last four years. If nothing, it's nice to see Cannon handed his hat over the border issue... now whether there's any followup in store is another matter entirely.
YYYYEEEEEEEESSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!
Cannon, you’re fired!
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Only 500+ to go.
Yes, Chris Cannon was one of the impeachment managers in 1998 from the House. Cannon was controversial and passionate. I’m not all that thrilled with Chaffetz, but will vote for him in the general election in November. I thought Chaffetz showed a lack of grace in winning last night.
I think Cannon was a little too complacent in this election.
Congratulations on the new grandbaby. My niece just had her first baby last Friday, a red headed boy.
In 2006, Chris Cannon was roundly defeated by John Jacobs at the convention, but then trounced him in the primaries. Have you heard much about Jason Chaffetz? I’ve heard a couple of things, but don’t really know that much about him.
I was there last night at his rally and speech, covering it for the press. I was really impressed by him. I think he’ll do better things for the district and the state than Canon.
Chris Cannon? Middle of the road squishy? He had a 97% rating from the ACU in 2007. I think the only place he parted ways was in 2003, when Cannon sponsored a bill that would have allowed states to charge in-state tuition for children of illegal immigrants. Jason Chaffetz ran against Cannon’s voting record on immigration and pledges to be more conservative than Cannon. Other than charging illegals children in-state tuition costs, I can’t think of how Chaffetz can be more conservative than Cannon. (I will support Chaffetz in the general election.)
The Democrats in the third district have really put up some bad candidates the last few election cycles. Bennion Spencer is the Democrat’s choice this year to run against Jason Chaffetz. Spencer has run for the Utah State legislature twice and has lost both times. He is a professor for a private university. He is running at the request of the Democrats.
Bill Orton. I have to confess I did vote for him once, the first time. I had no respect for his Republican opponent at all. Orton served for 3 or 4 terms, all the while becoming more and more liberal in his votes and finally was ousted by Chris Cannon in 1996.
Good to hear. Thanks!
Hey, long time no see. How is it going?
Congratulations!!!
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