Chaffetz is a Mitt-bot. He just endorsed Mitt Romney for president.
How do you think Mitt Romney for president will workout for you?
Posted on 08/19/2011 8:56:32 PM PDT by rabscuttle385
Hey Palinisa’s! How’s that Hatch endorsement working out for you guys?
One more reason for term limits - even the best-intentioned/reasonable folks become corrupted when immersed in "The System" for too long. Anyone who tries to make a lifetime career as a member of The Congress has no sense of what The People are all about and they forget that they represent US.
Say what you will about Hatch, but the guy does have a superb record of helping get bonafide Conservatives onto the Supreme Court. Look at Thomas, Roberts and Alito.
Maybe that’s why Plain and Levin supported Hatch.
The ACU is a joke.
“I emphasized that the grass-roots activists leading the Tea Party charge have been as opposed to Big Government Republicans as they have to Big Government Democrats.”
So where were they when Medicare Part D came around?
An ACU score of 100 isn’t that tough to get, 12 senators scored 100 last year—and you know we don’t have 12 reliable conservatives in the senate.
But more to the point, Hatch is voting as a straight conservative now to get reelected in a changed environment. As recently as 2007, he scored 76, which is quite low on their scale.
“Personally I want Hatch to stick around just long enough to usher a couple of Sarah Palin’s Supreme Court nominees through the Senate.”
BINGO!!
Oh, and Hatch is no Ted Kennedy on the right. Kennedy was a leading genuine leftist. Hatch has reliably ‘crossed the aisle’ to push through leftist (e.g., pro-amnesty) legislation.
There’s a reason they’ve long said in the senate, “Don’t count your Hatches until they’ve chickened.”
Can you imagine being married to this woman? Gawd.
Does she ever smile. Every time I see her on TV she’s got the sour puss going and just pissed about someone not toeing the purity line.
Sounds to me that it’s not about conservatism for some Palin supporters because their girl can’t ever be wrong. And she is very wrong on this one. Hatch has been a target for conservatives for years and now when we have a shot to take him out Palin gives him cover and her fans try to sell us he isn’t the problem. I’m not running around deflecting blame from Perry on amnesty. I even said if tht’s your #1 issue vote for Bachmann. She’s dead wrong on this one and deserves to be called on it as they all do when they screw up on an issue. They are politicians and they do not deserve worship.
Frankly, that is an ignorant take on things.
Hatch has a lifetime 88 ACU rating - he's started voting in lockstep with the ACU in preparation for this election, because he knew he'd be targeted for his liberal past.
He figures if he gets his scores up he can fool the idiot voters who don't know any better. There are a lot of suckers out there who will believe that Sharron Angle is a great candidate or that Orrin Hatch is a conservative hero.
The lifetime ACU rating I've seen for Chaffetz is 100%.
But, as you should know, ACU ratings are imperfect at best.
Orrin Hatch is the epitome of the Senate compromiser -- not a fair compromise where we get incremental improvement, but a mindset where conservatives are urged to adopt a moderately liberal position because Orrin & his friends on the other side of the aisle think it'll be so much better for America if we burn slowly rather than quickly.
By the sounds of the squeals from the stuck pigs, she's been on the mark most if not all the time.
Agree with your premise completely. We have been water-tortured into believing that the way things currently run is the way things must run. We must maintain our incumbents, while voting out their incumbents. There should be no such career choice as “politician” in our society. At all. Ever. We need citizen servants who, after a brief stint, rotate back to the world to live under the laws they themselves have legislated. And don’t hand me the “it’s a complicated, dangerous world...we need folks who know what they are doing, how the wheels of democracy turn...yada, yada.” That is exactly how we’ve gotten into this mess, by allowing “those who know how democracy works” to take us straight down the path toward America’s destruction. A pox on both their houses!
Whenever you plant a new garden you must always turn over the dirt, put in fresh fertilizer, plant new seeds...Only then will you produce a new crop.
Two of these “conservative” talk show celebrities by the way, go all weak in the knees over Romney- the person with arguably the most flawed conservative credentials in the field of candidates. So I seriously question their motivations and opinions on anything conservative.
Not sure what Sarah said about Hatch, but if she backs him, then, in my view, she is wrong. Out with the old, in with the new. We need to turn the whole thing over. Now. Before it’s too late. And I am a big Sarah supporter.
The media did not understand the 2010 election. Okay, expected. The dems did not understand the 2010 election. Again, expected. But doggone it, the Republican Party did not understand the 2010 election either! And this must not stand.
No more Dole nominees. No more McCain nominees. No more Bush presidencies. We don’t need Republican Party nominees. We need American Conservative nominees.
Time to close the Hatch so we don’t have to abandon ship.
I’m quite sure he will make out well on his lifetime retirement at our expense.
There was a time I respected him but I’m older now.
Chaffetz is a Mitt-bot. He just endorsed Mitt Romney for president.
How do you think Mitt Romney for president will workout for you?
BTW Palin didn’t endorse Hatch.
Orrin Hatch is a good conservative even if he, like Reagan, made some mistakes. Let’s keep the focus where it belongs, on Obama.
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