Tag: utah

Tim Kaine apparently surprised over Bennett loss.

Kaine was in such a rush to get things going on that he forgot to check the press release:

“If there was any question before, there should now be no doubt that the Republican leadership has handed the reigns to the Tea Party.”

(Head’s-up from @AlexPappasDC.)

It was precisely this keen attention to detail and level of preparation on the DNC’s part that caused such dramatic results in NJ and VA last year, and promises to do the same in HI-01 and PA-12 later this month.

Moe Lane

*I had a number of more bad puns here originally, until I realized that I was indulging in ad homonym attacks…

Crossposted to RedState.

Sen. Bob Bennett (R, UT) will not be re-elected.

He was eliminated from the second round of voting.

Republican U.S. Sen. Bob Bennett of Utah has lost his bid to serve a fourth term after failing to advance past the GOP state convention.

Attorney Mike Lee and businessman Tim Bridgewater are the remaining Republican candidates after Saturday’s vote.

Bennett was a distant third in the voting among roughly 3,500 delegates. He garnered just under 27 percent of the vote. Bridgewater had 37 percent and Lee 35 percent.

A primary looks likely, unless either Lee or Bridgewater gets almost all of Bennett’s delegates. Continue reading Sen. Bob Bennett (R, UT) will not be re-elected.

CPAC 2010: Rep Rob Bishop (R, UT-01).

This CPAC interview with Rep. Rob Bishop (R, UT-01) seemed relevant, given the post that I did earlier on the White House gutting 23K space-reliant jobs in a politically-unreliable Democrat’s Congressional District:

Rep. Bishop is active in space issues, and in fact went into greater detail recently about why said gutting is ill-advised. The op-ed is well worth reading, if probably not making an argument that’s unfamiliar to my likely readers…

Moe Lane

Crossposted to RedState.

Black Ministers to Limousine Left: Actually, more drilling sounds great.

“A thing is going to happen which has not happened since the Elder Days: the Ents are going to wake up and find that they are strong.”

– JRR Tolkien, The Two Towers

It would appear that elements of the current ruling faction of the American political system have noticed that, hold on, wait, they don’t actually have all that much in common:

Video Courtesy of KSL.com

Continue reading Black Ministers to Limousine Left: Actually, more drilling sounds great.