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Meet the 'plain old guy' who could end Mitt Romney's political career
The Washington Examiner ^ | 6-13-2018 | Daniel Allott

Posted on 06/18/2018 8:59:49 PM PDT by Impy

SALT LAKE CITY — The way Mike Kennedy sees it, he’s “just a plain old guy.” He’s no Mitt Romney, the millionaire Republican elder statesman and Kennedy’s opponent for the party’s nomination for Utah’s soon-to-be-open Senate seat. And he’s certainly no Ted Kennedy, the late liberal senator with whom he shares a surname but not a bloodline.

Nope. Mike Kennedy’s “just a plain old guy” who “comes from dirt.”

Mike Kennedy is not really plain or old. He’s a physician, and a lawyer, and a three-term state legislator, a husband and father of eight children. He’s a practicing member of the Mormon LDS Church and an Eagle Scout. And he’s 20 years younger than his opponent.

But you get the idea, and Kennedy is hoping Utah Republicans do, too. He’s not a descendant of a famous political family. He’s not part of the loathed establishment. He’s not “one of the privileged elite” or “just an image on a screen,” he says.

And perhaps most importantly to Utah Republicans, Kennedy’s not going to be a constant thorn in the side of his party’s president. “I stand with President Trump,” he says. “I’m deeply supportive of what he’s done. When I disagree with someone, I don’t need to go give a speech at a university.”


TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: Utah
KEYWORDS: election; mikekennedy; mittromney; nomyth; romney; senate; senate2018; stopromney; utah
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The primary is June 26th.
1 posted on 06/18/2018 8:59:50 PM PDT by Impy
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To: fieldmarshaldj; AuH2ORepublican; Galactic Overlord-In-Chief; BillyBoy; campaignPete R-CT; ...

Ping


2 posted on 06/18/2018 9:00:22 PM PDT by Impy (I have no virtue to signal.)
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To: Impy

What I really like about this guy is that he isn’t Mitt Romney.


3 posted on 06/18/2018 9:02:29 PM PDT by datricker (Cut Taxes Repeal ACA Deport DACA - Americans First, Build the Wall, Lock her up MAGA!)
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To: Impy

Come on Utah, don’t elect the carpetbagger from MA.


4 posted on 06/18/2018 9:03:09 PM PDT by bray (Pray for President Trump)
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To: Impy

Here’s hoping the good people of Utah see clearly and vote for this man and tell Mitt it’s time for him to retire.


5 posted on 06/18/2018 9:04:26 PM PDT by McGavin999 ("The press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood."Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Impy

Can Trump unendorse Romney? That would be fun to watch.


6 posted on 06/18/2018 9:05:47 PM PDT by map
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To: Impy

Oh Jesus !! Let it be!!!


7 posted on 06/18/2018 9:07:15 PM PDT by raiderboy (Trump has assured us that he will shut down the government to get the WALL in Sept.)
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To: Impy
When I disagree with someone, I don’t need to go give a speech at a university.

OUCH! That's going to leave a mark!

8 posted on 06/18/2018 9:07:22 PM PDT by BwanaNdege (uires sonm)
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Additional article

https://www.deseretnews.com/article/900021310/romney-versus-kennedy-a-tale-of-two-campaigns.html


9 posted on 06/18/2018 9:07:54 PM PDT by Impy (I have no virtue to signal.)
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OUCH! That's going to leave a mark!

Trump HAS to have been picked by God, Himself.

Everyone who attacks him winds up looking like the "bad guy" in an old Elvis movie.

10 posted on 06/18/2018 9:14:17 PM PDT by papertyger (They hate Trump, because they hate you! Remember that when you're tempted to be civil.)
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To: Impy

He beat Romney in the cacaus. Mike Kennedy is a great self made man and best of all he’s not Romney.


11 posted on 06/18/2018 9:36:11 PM PDT by Nateman (If the left is not screaming, you are doing it wrong.)
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best of all he’s not Romney.

I'll drink to that!
12 posted on 06/18/2018 9:46:39 PM PDT by JoSixChip (He is Batman!)
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To: Impy

He gave an interview on the Wilkow Majority show once. Just a phenomenal candidate.


13 posted on 06/18/2018 9:49:34 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Democracy: The cliff's edge of Marxism)
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To: Impy

I hate to say it
GO KENNEDY
(Haven’t said that since I was -8 in 1961 )
Lol


14 posted on 06/18/2018 9:52:02 PM PDT by Truthoverpower (The guvmint you get is the Trump winning express !)
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To: Impy

If I lived in Utah, Kennedy certainly would have my vote.


15 posted on 06/18/2018 9:53:16 PM PDT by AuH2ORepublican (If a politician won't protect innocent babies, what makes you think that he'll defend your rights?)
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To: AuH2ORepublican

I live in UT (Thank Goodness). Hopefully , Kennedy will pull it out...it looks like he might.


16 posted on 06/18/2018 9:57:15 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: raiderboy

Yeah. Kennedy gonna win.!

Never “let it be”


17 posted on 06/18/2018 10:05:44 PM PDT by campaignPete R-CT (Committee to Re-Elect the President ( CREEP ))
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To: Impy

I hope so


18 posted on 06/18/2018 10:38:49 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: Nateman

just out of curiosity, did this guy become a lawyer first, then a doctor or vice versa?


19 posted on 06/18/2018 10:55:04 PM PDT by txnativegop (The political left, Mankinds intellectual hemlock)
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To: txnativegop

Doctor first, lawyer second, state house latest.


20 posted on 06/18/2018 11:45:36 PM PDT by Nateman (If the left is not screaming, you are doing it wrong.)
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