Mike Lee’s got something like an 80% approval rating. Mississippi tactics won’t work in Utah. I don’t think Illinois tactics work in Utah, either. The most they can do is to make Lee sweat before he wins the primary/caucus 70%-30%.
I do not why people are surprised by this, the GOPe has been doing this for years
Mike Lee has a lot more of support and has done a great job for Utah. Let the GOP ‘moderates’ try and remove him. Their second whipping will be a lesson for all other moderates to see.
Its time to target GOP establishment leaders in primaries. Boehner and McCarthy need to be dumped. I think a fund needs to be started to support real Conservative challengers to those spots as an example to those who think the voters can’t stop them.
You can never let your guard down against the establishment. They have nothing to live for but money, power, and corruption, and the only means they know is Big Government.
People let their guard down after Reagan, and look what happened.
Cost his cancer research center millions in taxpayer dollars.... Really? Huntsman’s sense of entitlement to American taxpayer money is simply breathtaking. I have three words for you; screw you thief. And believe me Mr. Huntsman those words do not convey the contempt I now hold you in.
This is total BS. A new poll just came out this week and Mike Lee has like 65% approval rating. He’s a shoe in for re-election. That’s what happens when you go to DC and do what your constituents elected you to do.
Things like this happen in politics. Lee took out Bennett. Now Huntsman will try to find somebody to take down Lee.
I know they will try but that isn’t going anywhere.
"extremist" is the new "racist"?
How do Utah denizen's feel about him?
Dennis Hastert was Speaker of the US House... and Ray LaHood was a US Congressman, representing the 18th Congressional District of Illinois. Fitzgerald appointed Patrick Fitzgerald as a US Attorney, with the Senate's approval, and who went after then sitting IL Governor REP. George Ryan, eventually getting a conviction resulting in a prison sentence for Ryan (the bastard that he is).
This didn't sit well with the “Combine”. Fitzgerald was considered a maverick of sorts, and would vote his conscience, conflicting with the party line. This earned him the ire of the leadership, and party stooges as well.
Fitzgerald was put on notice that he was going to be challenged in the primary. This meant a brutal fight within his own party (in the primary), followed by a battle royale with an opponent in the general election.
Also, Fitzgerald reasoned that he had already held public office for 12 consecutive years... and that his son would be 18 and off to college upon completion of a second 6 year US Senate term, meaning: Peter would have more or less missed out on his kid's life growing up, which tipped the scales in favor of him not running for reelection.
Jack Ryan was a rising star within the IL GOP and sought the US Senate candidacy, only to be taken out by having his sealed and damaging divorce records leaked, which took him out at the knees. Likewise, Blair Hull, a Democrat seeking the same US Senate seat, had his sealed and damaging divorce records leaked, taking him out at the knees just like Ryan.
Lastly, Ambassador Dr. Alan Keyes arrived in the state in true carpetbagger fashion, assuming the GOP mantle, running against bath-house Barry... and the rest as they say, is history.
Coincidentally, the traitor rino son of a bitch- Ray LaHood, wound up as Obungo’s Secretary of Transportation. Funny how that worked.
Good old Chicago/IL politics at play.
Mike Lee needs to stand and fight.
FWIW: Fitzgerald had oodles of money, which he loaned himself during his historic defeat of freshman (incumbent) US Senator DEM. Carol Mosley-Braun. He would need twice the amount of money to run against the Combine, in the primary and again in the general election. Mama apparently didn't raise no fool.
I wish he would have stood and fought. (sigh)
As an FYI: There is good reason to suspect David Axelrod of having his fingerprints all over the sealed divorce records leaks (in both cases).
The RINOs did what the Democrats couldn't do: They destroyed the only party I had left.
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It will just make me send more money to him. We overcame in Wisconsin with Scott Walker and others, and we will again with Lee.
The GOPe corporatists will not be denied.
First Sessions and now Lee. Hold your nose and vote Republican they say. A vote for a third party is throwing your vote away they say.
Bunch of damn cowards. Sit behind a computer posting on a forum bitching and moaning about a party they continue to vote for, expecting change but yet unwilling to change themselves. I’m sick to death of it. And now I believe it’s too late to make a difference at the ballot box, even for a new party.
We don’t need another Reagan. We need another Washington.
I’ve always had a philosophy (and it has always been on my profile) that I don’t vote Republican, I vote candidate.
Read Phyllis Schlafly’s various books and the updated version “A Choice Not an Echo” to understand the the Republican Party has been hijacked by global corporations and Federal Reserve elites. If illegal immigration and amnesty is acceptable now, so will be gun control and confiscation tomorrow. When those who have all the money pull the strings, freedom for the masses will soon be pulled out from under them.
It would/does not surprise me.