Posted on 08/12/2015 7:35:25 AM PDT by jimbo123
Apparently, Utah Republicans are immune to the “Trumpmentum” sweeping through the national party.
A new poll conducted by Dan Jones and Associates for UtahPolicy.com shows former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush with 22% support, followed by Scott Walker with 11%, Marco Rubio with 9% and Donald Trump a distant fourth place with 8% support.
The poll was conducted from July 14-21, meaning it was well before the debate aired to record ratings on Fox News.
Political Science Professor at the University of Utah’s Hinckley Institute, Tim Chambless, says the poll shows Utah Republicans are less skeptical of the idea of a third President Bush than Republicans nationally.
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Jebicito...I gotta steal that one!
China is devaluing it’s currency TODAY! Funny I don’t hear obama nor any of the career politicians speaking out against China today , only Trump. He’s taking up for Americans in this issue . how is being on the side of Americans being liberal as you accuse him. why aren’t the others saying anything?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3323841/posts
Ill never vote for Jeb or any RINO. I just wont vote.
China is devaluing it’s currency TODAY! Funny I don’t hear obama nor any of the career politicians speaking out against China today , only Trump. He’s taking up for Americans in this issue . how is being on the side of Americans being liberal as you accuse him. why aren’t the others saying anything?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3323841/posts
China for the past few days has been launching a currency war to hurt the USA and Americans. everything used to be made in the USA now it’s made in China. Trump today is saying that China is sucking the blood out of the USA. why aren’t the other politicians speaking out against China? Trump’s been doing this for decades.
China makes
And the US with it's printing presses is devaluing it's currency every day.
This is an old report, but Hatch hasn’t changed a bit...
Sen. Orrin Hatch
Washington’s conservative activists have found a traitor in their midst, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch. The occasion is Memogate, the internal Senate investigation into whether Republican aides unethically (and perhaps illegally) tapped into Democratic computer files containing private judicial-nomination strategy memos and leaked them to the press. The more the story balloons in the media, embarrassing Republicans and distracting them from trying to confirm more judges, the more right-wing activists savage Hatch, the man they hold responsible for it. To them, the Utah Republican has done something “acutely damaging to the struggle to get conservative judges onto the federal bench,” as one National Review writer put it this week, in a column widely e-mailed among disgusted activists. Another activist ominously warned in the Washington Post of a “thermonuclear” punishment for Hatch. Also in the Post, Gary Bauer fumed over a “demoralized Republican base around the country” and sounded about ready to stage a public hanging on Capitol Hill.
No matter that Hatch has spent the past three years fighting nonstop to confirm George Bush’s judicial nominees. After Hatch declared himself “mortified” by the file-stealing allegations and said he supported a formal investigation, angry GOP activists—who want to downplay down the scandal—accused him of being a weak-kneed appeaser of Democrats. The National Review’s Timothy P. Carney even likened him to Neville Chamberlain.
That’s madness, of course. Under Bush, Hatch has fought bitterly with Democrats over judicial nominations, to the point of shattering an emerging reputation he’d gained for moderation and spoiling some of his old bipartisan friendships. If anything, the real story of Orrin Hatch’s recent career is the way the Bush administration took a senator who had been growing mellower and more independent with age and reduced him to a crude partisan attack dog. Yet even Hatch’s partisanship isn’t enough for the Savonarolas of the right. The right-wing bile over Hatch’s Memogate burst of conscience only shows how frighteningly militant Washington’s church of conservatism has become.
From afar, Hatch’s gentlemanly manner and high collars make him seem like an insufferably dull prig. But by the standards of Congress, he’s a relatively colorful character. He has released nine CDs of his own music—drecky religious and patriotic anthems, but at least he’s trying. Hatch is also a sucker for celebrity. His music Web site features photos of him posing proudly with Barry Manilow and clowning around at a piano with Donnie Osmond. He’s cultivated friendships with athletes like Karl Malone and dedicated a song to his “dear friend” Muhammad Ali. Hatch accepted cameos in HBO’s K Street and Steven Soderbergh’s Traffic (although Hatch, a Mormon bishop, later explained that he was “shocked and dismayed at the gratuitous amount of violence and profanity” in the film). This fascination with fame may explain Hatch’s ill-advised run for president in 2000, during which he presented himself as the experienced alternative to George W. Bush; he dropped out after registering a pathetic 1 percent in the Iowa caucuses.
Hatch was a more one-dimensional figure when he arrived in the senate almost 30 years ago. A fire-and-brimstone values crusader, he introduced a constitutional amendment to overturn Roe v. Wade and was prone to saying things like, “Democrats are the party of homosexuals.” In his early career, he routinely tallied one of the most conservative Senate voting records. His intensity rankled even his GOP colleagues, one of whom later admitted he thought Hatch was an egomaniac with an irritating “save-the-world complex.”
But that helped him score points in the GOP as a reliable attack dog. During the Iran-Contra hearings, no one defended Oliver North and the Reagan White House more stubbornly. And during Clarence Thomas’s 1991 confirmation battle, no one trashed Anita Hill with more zest. (Among other things, Hatch bizarrely suggested Hill might have lifted her famous tale about pubic hair and Coke from The Exorcist.)
But the institution got to Hatch. He started flashing a softer side. In 1986 he held the first Senate hearing on AIDS, at which he hugged a victim of the disease. He also befriended Sen. Ted Kennedy, whom he’d once deemed “one of the major dangers to the country,” and together they passed a major AIDS bill. That friendship led to more joint efforts over the years, culminating in a 1997 bill that raised $30 billion in tobacco taxes to fund child health care and infuriated Hatch’s Republican colleagues.A year later, Hatch galled conservatives in the midst of President Clinton’s impeachment by saying, “I want to help him, he’s a human being.” Hatch adopted the comradely customs of the Senate with an enthusiasm that irked some GOP colleagues. Throughout the ‘90s, conservatives griped that Hatch was never enthusiastic enough about blocking Clinton’s judicial nominees and was too willing to deal with the enemy. In 1997, überconservative Paul Weyrich hissed to the American Spectator that Hatch “needs psychological help.”
Since Bush took office, however, Hatch has reverted to his old hyper-partisan self. As judiciary chairman, he’s led an unrelenting assault to confirm Bush’s conservative nominees, which included last fall’s 39-hour marathon session that kept senators up all night. These days Hatch is far more likely to be sputtering at Democrats than backslapping them. During last year’s standoff over appellate court nominee Miguel Estrada, for instance, Hatch could’ve been channeling House Majority Leader Tom DeLay as he raged at the “shameful” and “despicable” tactics of the Democrats, who he said were trying to “murder” and “destroy” Estrada. (After one especially colorful outburst, Hatch had to come back and apologize for violating Senate decorum.) Even Hatch’s long friendship with Kennedy is fraying. “You are not going to bully me,” Kennedy snapped at him at a hearing last year. “You are not going to bully me, either,” Hatch shot back.
Democrats now complain that the institutionalist Hatch has resorted to breaking Senate rules to get his way—failing to give them adequate notice before hearings, for example, and ignoring committee debate procedures. Hatch even entertained last year’s radical GOP plan, which was never attempted, to change longstanding Senate rules so that nominees can’t be filibustered.
Hatch has also leveled cheap accusations of bigotry against Democrats. During last year’s nomination fight over Alabama federal court nominee William Pryor Jr., a Catholic, Hatch suggested that the Democrats’ refusal to confirm judges with strong anti-gay and anti-abortion views is tantamount to anti-Catholicism. (That was a hard point to explain to Catholic Democrats like Kennedy, but never mind.) The attack was well-coordinated with outside Republican activists like C. Boyden Gray, whose Committee for Justice attacked Democrats with demagogic television ads featuring a sign that read “Catholics Need Not Apply.”
I think Ted Cruz needs to make some stops there
People need to stop attacking FReepers for not liking the fraudulent Trump
hey could you get the poll from 6 months ago too?.. it would be as accurate
See the dollar is rising. China is devaluing its currency
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/how-the-dollars-rise-led-to-the-yuan-devaluation-2015-08-11
Why don't you let a businessman that is looking out for America not China , a businessman that understands the economy and what china is doing take over .
Only Trump is speaking out against China and for Americans:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3323841/posts
No politician ever has spoken against China and they're not doing it today when they should
Interesting local perspective thanks.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3323841/posts
China for the past few days has been launching a currency war to hurt the USA and Americans. everything used to be made in the USA now it’s made in China. Trump today is saying that China is sucking the blood out of the USA. why aren’t the other politicians speaking out against China? Trump’s been doing this for decades.
Politicians don't have a clue and they're owned by China anyway
Perhaps those who don’t like Mr. Trump can knock off the attacks and derogatory comments directed at those who are advocates for Mr. Trump?
Because I support Cruz.
You’re the one throwing hissy fits on every Trump thread.
I attack Trump and I get personal insults from FReepers, but I’m not supposed to notice apparently.
Utah voters must be stupid, or they want to be part of North Mexico.
Attack him all you please, I never said that was a bad thing.
I’m saying the attacks are happening in both directions.
I think Ted Cruz needs to make some stops thereToo busy. He's standing in the back of a pickup in front of Connie's Chicken in Tupelo...Hopefully his handlers will spring for a free lunch after the rally for the dozens of people that showed up.
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