Posted on 10/23/2010 11:03:28 AM PDT by rabscuttle385
Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) stressed Friday he has no intentions of following down the path of his Utah colleague, Sen. Bob Bennett (R).
During an appearance on Bloomberg's "Political Capital With Al Hunt" set to air this weekend, Hatch, who's up for reelection in 2012, talked down the prospect of losing to a conservative primary challenger the way Bennett did earlier this year.
“I like Bob Bennett. I felt like he was a great senator. But I'm no Bob Bennett," Hatch said of his colleague, who lost at a state party convention to Mike Lee, the new GOP candidate for Senate and probable victor in the state's Senate race.
Hatch is one of a crop of veteran GOP senators who are looking to learn lessons from the 2010 primary cycle, which saw incumbent senators such as Bennett and Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) lose their primary races against insurgent conservative activists tied to the Tea Party movement.
The veteran senator said he's already begun reaching out to his state's Tea Partiers and stressed his conservatism relative to the forcibly retired Bennett.
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You are right. Enough is enough. Hope Utahns send him home to retirement.
Hmmm, was that before or after he called us nuts and extremists?
I Like this one. I don’t care what his intentions are it’s the voters intentions that count. Send these career politicians home.
When these guys make it about themselves, and not about their constituency, its time for them to go.
Orrin Hatch has to go. Nice man but he’s been in the Beltway too long.
He was forced into a primary last time around, dead meat. As my dear Aunt said: “I loved him as a Brother but he thought he owned the Office.” Speaking of another long term Utah Pol.
Hatch is another RHINO who needs to go.
Orrin Hatch is on my list of RINO’s that need to go!
Senator Hatch is a wonderful orchestral composer.
I hope to see him afforded much more time to dedicate to his music come 2013.
Maybe Hatch will do the right thing and retire.
IIRC , Hatch was part of the leadership in ‘98 that decided there would be no wittnesses in Clinton’s trial to remove him from office after impeachment. Orrin is dead to me.
Orrin’s scared. His buddy, Teddy, died. He’s all alone now in the senate. Then along comes this damned Tea Party and upsets the balance of power in the GOP fiefdom.
I think your post is so funny; the authoritativeness of it and as if he heard it. LOL!
I can honestly think of only one Senator in my lifetime, who successfully resisted the siren call of the Beltway and that was Jesse Helms.
The rest have succumbed, as far as I can tell. They become convinced that legislation and regulation, more and more of it, is what the country really needs, in order to “move forward.” It becomes the measure of their worth to them, what bills they’s co-sponsored and their relationships with colleagues.
The fact that their constituents back home would rather just be left alone by a much smaller government is forgotten and then scorned, as it begins to sound petty and small in light of the sweeping grandeur and largesse they’ve long since accustomed themselves to dispensing.
The solution is to just not allow them to stay in the Senate long enough to fall prey.
37 years is a long time. Send him home to a happy retirement.
Yours and everyone who's ever read more than two sentences of Al Hunt's screeds. He's as bad as Jim Wallis, and both are worse than James Carville. Al Hunt is a traitor to America.
I used to grit my teeth and read his anti-American propaganda essays on the editorial pages of the WSJ. I was so glad when he left. The new guy's no better, but at least he's not Al Hunt.
We are moving to Utah in time for the next election. Here’s two votes against this RINO.
I wonder how he likes the new tax on tanning?
He’s right about that. He’s not as conservative as Bob Bennett. Every time he does something, it’s for Democrats. The only time I have seen Hatch beam with pride is when he talk about how he got Ginsburg on the Supreme Court.
Those three facts are prima facie evidence that Hatch is too attached to the seat for the country’s good.
Also, any pal of Ted Kennedy has already shown that he doesn’t get it.
Very good and worthy of repeating, especially the 4th sentence about attachment to the seat. Here's to those in Utah that get it!
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