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GOP Establishment Signals Primary Fight Against Tea Party Favorite Mike Lee
Breitbart ^ | 10/25/2013 | Michael Patrick Leahy

Posted on 10/26/2013 9:26:57 AM PDT by Viennacon

Tuesday, 79-year old Senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT), now serving his seventh term in the Senate, signaled that he and other members of the Republican establishment are likely to encourage a primary challenge to first term Senator Mike Lee (R-UT).

Lee upset former Senator Robert Bennett (R-UT) in the 2010 Utah Republican primary convention in the Tea Party's first major primary win over a Republican establishment politician.

Hatch told the Deseret News and KSL NewsRadio that "[i]t's time now... for Lee and other tea party Republicans to be 'rehabilitated' for refusing to pass a budget bill needed to keep the government operating unless money for the act better known as Obamacare was removed."

Hatch pointedly refused to endorse Lee for re-election to the Senate in 2016. "I'm not going to get into endorsements at this point in any way," he said. "The tactics were not the right tactics. It takes experience sometimes to make sure you can use the right tactics," he stated.

Former Utah Governor and 2012 Republican presidential candidate Jon Huntsman has also joined the establishment crowd attacking Lee. The Washington Post reported on Tuesday that Huntsman "said Lee has bucked a trend of senators who work to grow this small state in a way that makes people proud." According to Huntsman, in Utah "[y]ou don’t have ideological wack-jobs... For all of its labeling as a red state, underneath it all Utah is a pretty pragmatic Western state, a just-get-it-done ethos.”

Spencer Zwick, a Utah resident who was a key member of Mitt Romney's 2012 presidential campaign's leadership team, also criticized Lee. "Business leaders that I talk to, many of whom supported him, would never support his reelection and in fact will work against him, myself included," Zwick told the Post. According to Zwick, Lee is just a "showhorse."

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: Utah
KEYWORDS: 2016; gaymarriage; jonhuntsman; libertarians; medicalmarijuana; mikelee; orrinhatch; randpaul; robertbennett; ronpaul; senate; spencerzwick; utah
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To: Viennacon

Time to consolidate the Tea Party groups, to be more focused and effective.

I get e-mail & snail-mail from about 20 different Tea Party Groups.

We need to join forces, trim overhead and target some Rino’s.

I can’t/won’t give 20 groups $100 each.

But, I could/would give a more focused Tea Party $500.

Meanwhile, I deal direct with the true Conservatives.


21 posted on 10/26/2013 9:54:43 AM PDT by G Larry (Let his days be few; and let another take his office. Psalms 109:8)
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To: Viennacon
Well that settles it. A sizable campaign contribution will be going out to Sen. Mike Lee from this Texan with my thanks for his courageous stand against ObamaCare. I have great respect for Sen. Lee.

The cowardly Orrin Hatch, Jon Huntsman and their ilk are foolish to ignore the tsunami of support for Sen. Lee and Sen. Cruz among millions of Americans. We will not forget their treachery.

22 posted on 10/26/2013 9:55:07 AM PDT by Unmarked Package
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To: Viennacon
The GOPe truly has a death wish. They need to get out of DC and do a reality check. Do they think joining the media will get them love and reelection? They are in a death spiral, yelling "more libs, down with conservatives".

vaudine

23 posted on 10/26/2013 9:56:48 AM PDT by vaudine
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To: Viennacon

Hatch has certainly tacked to the left after his recent reerection.


24 posted on 10/26/2013 9:56:48 AM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Viennacon
Juan and Linda announce the terms of the Senate GOP surrender.
25 posted on 10/26/2013 9:58:11 AM PDT by JPG (Yes We Can morphs into Make It Hurt.)
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To: holdonnow

PING!!!


26 posted on 10/26/2013 10:00:02 AM PDT by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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To: Viennacon

Next time someone says we should vote for a RINO because they are “better than Democrats”... just punch them.


27 posted on 10/26/2013 10:01:55 AM PDT by GeronL
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To: Lazamataz

The guys fragging our tents are the enemy, even if they wear our uniform


28 posted on 10/26/2013 10:02:45 AM PDT by GeronL
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To: Viennacon

Tea Party Republicans should vow to run independently to split the vote denying these idiots victories. That is if an rino can beat a person who went to Washington and did what he said he would do.


29 posted on 10/26/2013 10:02:54 AM PDT by Yogafist
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To: MagUSNRET

I heard it too. I knew he was wrong....something he must regret now.


30 posted on 10/26/2013 10:06:46 AM PDT by jch10 ("Normandy was closed when we got there too!")
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To: afraidfortherepublic
we used to love thee

When was that? 1976?

This little initiative is DOA. Hatch is basically gone, he only wins by staying quiet. Once he starts making noise, that's it...he's outed himself.

Lee is the future, and there ain't nothin' that North Temple can do about it.

31 posted on 10/26/2013 10:11:22 AM PDT by Regulator
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To: GeronL
Next time someone says we should vote for a RINO because they are “better than Democrats”... just punch them.

Ann Coulter comes to mind.

32 posted on 10/26/2013 10:11:58 AM PDT by EricT. (Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. Big brother is watching you.)
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To: MagUSNRET

TGO = the great outdoors ..... ?


33 posted on 10/26/2013 10:12:40 AM PDT by campaignPete R-CT (WWLD? What would LaRussa do?)
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To: MagUSNRET

the great one

got it


34 posted on 10/26/2013 10:13:37 AM PDT by campaignPete R-CT (WWLD? What would LaRussa do?)
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To: Viennacon

The Tea Party needs to run an ad campaign against the likes of senile Hatch.


35 posted on 10/26/2013 10:15:01 AM PDT by ExTexasRedhead
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To: glock rocks; Utah Binger; Excuse_My_Bellicosity; Artcore; Pete-R-Bilt; Owen; hal ogen; Viennacon

“Thomas Wright, who stepped down this spring as chairman of the Utah Republican Party,” is the one looking to challenge Mike Lee.

He’s the guy Hatch and Huntsman will be supporting.

What do you all know about him?

Mike Lee had better win his reelection.

This is WAR!


36 posted on 10/26/2013 10:15:38 AM PDT by onyx (Please Support Free Republic - Donate Monthly! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, Let Me know!)
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To: Viennacon
"GOP Establishment Signals Primary Fight Against Tea Party Favorite Mike Lee..."

......... Since the Tea Party is basically the last bastion of hope for the survival of the U.S. Constitution ....... When ever I see or hear a statement such as the one shown above .... I replace the words "Tea Party" with the word "Constitution" and the truth of what is happening is revealed. Next time you see or hear a statement about the Tea Party ... try that process and the truth of a person's political agenda will be revealed.

37 posted on 10/26/2013 10:16:38 AM PDT by R_Kangel ( "A Nation of Sheep ..... Will Beget ..... a Nation Ruled by Wolves.")
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To: AllAmericanGirl44

Spencer Zwick, a Utah resident who was a key member of Mitt Romney’s 2012 presidential campaign’s leadership team


That is all you need to know about him.

A real rino...with credentials to prove it.


38 posted on 10/26/2013 10:18:44 AM PDT by old curmudgeon
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To: Yogafist
Tea Party Republicans should vow to run independently to split the vote denying these idiots victories.

I agree with you. Either we ARE the Republican party, or we need to END the Republican party.

39 posted on 10/26/2013 10:19:38 AM PDT by Defiant (GOPe Strategy: We have to fund Obamacare in order to see how bad it is. Good idea, guys!)
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40 posted on 10/26/2013 10:20:19 AM PDT by onyx (Please Support Free Republic - Donate Monthly! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, Let Me know!)
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