He was better than Romney.
That’s pretty young for a Mormon Elder, the only ones who last longer are Jewish comedians and truly Catholic Chinese Bishops.
RIP
Was mostly an honor to our country, from what I remember off hand.
He began his stay in DC a conservative. He ended it in bed with Ted Kennedy.
Don’t count your Hatches before they chicken.
Throughout his Senate years, Mr. Hatch had been a gentlemanly conservative rock. He blocked labor law reforms and fair housing bills with filibusters, tying up Senate business for weeks. He voted against the Equal Rights Amendment, which would have enshrined gender equality as a bedrock civil right, and he proposed a Constitutional amendment to make abortion illegal.
NYT
He did some good things
Edward Kennedy, the guy who flew to Moscow to ask for Soviet help with defeating Ronald Reagan.
Did I agree with him 100% of the time? Hell, no. Then again, in my lifetime,I have never agreed with any politician 100% of time. I look at his record and found I more agreements than disagreements and that's why I consider him a good (not great)Senator.
It's a cautionary tale about people who stay in DC too long. The fierce conservatives in the beginning, after decades, gives way to big government statism. The lure of DC does that. Recent examples are Bob Dole and Barry Goldwater.
Dear old dad often went to DC for funding military medical programs. Hatch was one of his best friends and a strong supporter of the spending requests. Hollings, a South Carolina Democrat, was the other dad worked with, but Hollings also supported with Hatch the spending requests.
I asked dad which one would be fun to invite to a party. He said Hatch would be boring because he was an honest man, but Hollings would be a blast as he was so damned corrupt.
Even dead he’s better than his successor. I appreciated his work on the judiciary committee and seeming level headedness.
I flew Senators Hatch and Daschle and their staffs around Macedonia and Kosovo back in 1996 in my UH-60 Blackhawk. As I recall they were decent fellows despite politics.
Funny I was reprimanded by a LTC (I was a newly minted Captain at the time) who accused me and my copilot for flying “too fast and aggressively” with the senators on board. The LTC wasn’t an aviator, he was a protocol rear echelon doosh.
Both senators thanked me and all the crew for a great ride. I flew Madeline Albright a few weeks later, then Sheryl Crow and Sinbad. It was an interesting deployment.
frankly, its this kind of politician that has killed off our country....pubs allowed it all to happen and benefitted from it....
Bye, dinosaur.