And the Libs Think the TEA Party is Dead.......

[TVDOC]

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/orrin-hatch-forced-into-primary-fight-after-failing-to-secure-gop-nomination/

Utah Republicans denied U.S. Sen. Orrin Hatch a clear path to a seventh and final term Saturday, forcing the 78-year-old lawmaker into a June primary with 37-year-old former state Sen. Dan Liljenquist.
 
Hatch fell short of the outright nomination by fewer than three dozen votes from the nearly 4,000 delegates at the party convention.
 
In a matter of weeks, Hatch turned the question of whether he would survive the convention into a question of whether he would reach the 60 percent threshold to earn the nomination.  Despite the setback, Hatch holds a significant fundraising edge in what has become the stiffest challenge since his election to the Senate in 1976.
 
“It is time for a new generation of leaders…We know it to our bones,” his competitor Dan Liljenquist remarked.
 
“No one senator is too big to fail…No one senator is too important to lose.”

This year’s race essentially began in 2010, when former Utah Sen. Bob Bennett was ousted by delegates fueled by tea party politics.
 
Hatch reportedly remarked: “These people are not conservatives. They’re not Republicans…They’re radical libertarians and I’m doggone offended by it.”

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[NHSparky]

Poor Orin.  Guess he forgot why he was elected. 

[Karin]

I got real pissed off at him early in the O admin.  It was during the senate hearings on appointments, and he just laid down and said whatever.  "The president can have whoever he wants" he said.   No questions asked. 

[Eupher]

He's just another dinosaur -- and dinosaurs, in fact and in truth, have all gone extinct.

I think Orin has forgotten that.

It's time Orin headed out to pasture.

[BlueStateSaint]

I got real pissed off at him early in the O admin.  It was during the senate hearings on appointments, and he just laid down and said whatever.  "The president can have whoever he wants" he said.   No questions asked. 

McCain has said the same thing in the past.

[wasp69]

Hatch reportedly remarked: “These people are not conservatives..."

Neither are you, shithead.

[Duke Nukum]

I'm offended by Hatch's slight "radical libertarians."

I wonder if he loses the primary if he will run as an "independent?"

[DefiantSix]

I'm offended by Hatch's slight "radical libertarians."

I wonder if he loses the primary if he will run as an "independent?"

Hell, in 1999 - 2000, Juan McLame was actively entertaining "jump ship" offers from top senate Dhimmi'Rats in Scottsdale over the Christmas holidays.

What was it, 2007 when Arlen Spectre jumped to the Dhimmi'Rats?

I fully expect Orrin Hatch to do the same.

[Eupher]

Hell, in 1999 - 2000, Juan McLame was actively entertaining "jump ship" offers from top senate Dhimmi'Rats in Scottsdale over the Christmas holidays.

What was it, 2007 when Arlen Spectre jumped to the Dhimmi'Rats?

I fully expect Orrin Hatch to do the same.

I don't think so. He can do plenty of damage being a Dem in Repub clothing. Utah's red, and for Hatch to change official colors now would most certainly spell his doom, though he is probably doomed anyway much like Bennett went belly-up.

[obumazombie]

I got real pissed off at him early in the O admin.  It was during the senate hearings on appointments, and he just laid down and said whatever.  "The president can have whoever he wants" he said.   No questions asked. 

The strategy may have been, let him have appointments like Van Jones, and let those appointments be a millstone. Even if that wasn't the strategy, it worked.