US Senator Bob Bennett loses re-election

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Link: Sen. Bob Bennett Loses Re-Nomination At Utah GOP Convention | TPMDC



You might be asking yourself, "So what? What does the fate of a single US Senator who I might never have heard of have to do with anything?" Sen. Bennett is a conservative, right Republican representing Utah, and he has just been voted out of the Republican primary because the conservatives viewed him as not conservative enough.

It's just that, dang, I'd like to see what their idea of a real conservative is, if it wasn't Bob Bennett.
 
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Right wing extremists have taken over the Republican Party and currently a purge is going on. The teabaggers are driving out the moderates and those they think are not conservative enough.

At this rate, give it a few years and Republican party will start to resemble John Birch Society, KKK or other extreme, fringe groups.
 
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SirJosephPorter said:
Right wing extremists have taken over the Republican Party and currently a purge is going on. The teabaggers are driving out the moderates and those they think are not conservative enough.

At this rate, give it a few years and Republican party will start to resemble John Birch Society, KKK or other extreme, fringe groups.
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Interestingly this was predicted by Republican strategist David Frumm, who was fired for expressing his views. He predicted that if the Republicans continued to move to the right they would end up with a party that appealed only to a small number of American extremists.
 
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Does Harper have a membership card yet? I wonder if all religions will be allowed into this theocracy or if only certain ones will make it. Will pedophilia be mandatory for membership or optional? Clearly financial disfunction and a severe belief in manifest destiny will be required.
It will be interesting to watch the party that has produced the longest string of bad presidents self destruct.
 
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US Senator Bob Bennett loses re-election


Yeah, so what is the big deal??

This was a PRIMARY election. At least in the States it is the people who decide who will represent them and their Party of choice, rather the despicable autocratic and dictatorial way it is decided in Canada. You know, APPROVED by the Party Leader.

Bennett has become old and tired. Republican voters had the common sense to realize this, unlike Democrats who keep putting ancient fossils like Robert Byrd and Harry Reid in the mix, in spite the obvious signs that their 'best before" date was sometimes in the early 1940's.

This is no different from Obama winning the primary from the likes of Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden or John Kerrey. And by far less tragic consequences.
 
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YukonJack said:
US Senator Bob Bennett loses re-election


Yeah, so what is the big deal??

This was a PRIMARY election. At least in the States it is the people who decide who will represent them and their Party of choice, rather the despicable autocratic and dictatorial way it is decided in Canada. You know, APPROVED by the Party Leader.

Bennett has become old and tired. Republican voters had the common sense to realize this, unlike Democrats who keep putting ancient fossils like Robert Byrd and Harry Reid in the mix, in spite the obvious signs that their 'best before" date was sometimes in the early 1940's.

This is no different from Obama winning the primary from the likes of Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden or John Kerrey. And by far less tragic consequences.
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Bennett did not lose in the primary, YJ, get your facts straight before you slavishly adore, adulate the teabaggers. He was defeated by the Republican caucus, a cabal of teabaggers who got together, took over the Republican Party machinery and booted out the sitting senator, in favor of somebody even more extreme (and Bennett was extreme enough as it is).

Bennett did not lose in a primary. There was no primary.
 
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You are right, SirJosephPorter, it was not a primary.

But your choice or words - as usual - displays your hatred of anything anybody who does not worship Obama and/or disagree with you.

BTW, what do you think of the chances of turncoat Arlan Specter?

Will he be turfed out by his "fellow" Democrats?

Please note that unlike you I did not go out of my way to insult you and anyone else I disagree with.
 
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YukonJack said:
You are right, SirJosephPorter, it was not a primary.

But your choice or words - as usual - displays your hatred of anything anybody who does not worship Obama and/or disagree with you.

BTW, what do you think of the chances of turncoat Arlan Specter?

Will he be turfed out by his "fellow" Democrats?

Please note that unlike you I did not go out of my way to insult you and anyone else I disagree with.
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Don’t change the subject, YJ. You claimed that there was a primary. If there was no primary (and there wasn’t), then all of your post becomes nonsense (it being similar to Obama defeating Hillary etc.).

It showed the desire to justify, to defend the Tea Party at any cost, even at the cost of the truth.

As to Specter, I understand that there will be a primary in Pennsylvania, and not just a bunch of extremists taking over the machinery of a tiny state (Utah) and using that to boot out the incumbent senator.
 
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The sentiments of many US voters on the west coast is that regardless of party affiliation the incumbents should not be returned to office. Right, wrong or indifferent I'll bet there are some changes at the next election. Some will be caught standing in place wondering why this happened. To me it would not be a surprise.
 
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YukonJack said:
BTW, what do you think of the chances of turncoat Arlan Specter?

Will he be turfed out by his "fellow" Democrats?
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I'll answer that. On May 18, several states will be holding primaries. In Pennsylvania, Democrat Joe Sestak has been the person I've been supporting, and he has a real chance of defeating incumbant Arlen Specter.

In Kentucky and Arkansas, my two choices (Dems Jack Conway and Bill Halter respectively) are not in as good a shape against their opponents as Sestak is, but it's not impossible.
 
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SirJosephPorter said:
Right wing extremists have taken over the Republican Party and currently a purge is going on. The teabaggers are driving out the moderates and those they think are not conservative enough.

At this rate, give it a few years and Republican party will start to resemble John Birch Society, KKK or other extreme, fringe groups.
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You left out a very powerful party in their own minds, and that is the Canadian Liberal party, Cannot get much more radical then that.
 
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SirJosephPorter, there is nothing like quoting one post and responding to another.

And you have the nerve of accusing me of changing the subject.

I admitted that I was wrong, regarding primary vs. party convention.
 
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US Senator Arlen Specter is probably going to lose his primary.

Latest Poll To Show Sestak Beating Specter In Dem Primary | TPMDC


Yes, Sen. Specter, a longtime Republican who in 2009 switched to the Democratic Party for the sole reason that he liked his job and didn't think he could win a Republican primary in Pennsylvania.

Now it looks like he won't even win the Dem primary.


Serious question: if he loses the primary, will he run as a third party candidate?
 
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Icarus27k said:
US Senator Arlen Specter is probably going to lose his primary.

Latest Poll To Show Sestak Beating Specter In Dem Primary | TPMDC


Yes, Sen. Specter, a longtime Republican who in 2009 switched to the Democratic Party for the sole reason that he liked his job and didn't think he could win a Republican primary in Pennsylvania.

Now it looks like he won't even win the Dem primary.


Serious question: if he loses the primary, will he run as a third party candidate?
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Probably not. He is old and ailing.
 
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