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Hatch, Bennett likely to get even more conservative

*If Cannon can be defeated, who could be next?*

Hopefully Hatch and Bennett will be next.

It was their moderate views that motivated me to vote for both Hatch and Bennett but I sincerely think that this trend in the GOP to take more and more conservative stances on issues will only serve to marginalize them and make them less relevant in the public dialogue. What good is ideological purity if it means shrinking your base? Even former Speaker New Gingritch said that the tent needs to be big enough for fights to breakout inside it.

Orrin and Bob... time to go buddies. You have made personal careers of this job when you promised not to... time to go!

A more conservative Hatch will ensure
the Party of Lincoln = the Party of SHRINKIN'

IT'S TIME FOR SOME NEW BLOOD. BENNETT AND HATCH HAVE BEEN IN OFFICE TOO LONG

These two are becoming more irrelevant all the time. Surely we can do better.

The winds of change are blowing even here in Utah.

If Hatch were to have his Senate election today rather than two years ago with the same opponent, how do you think the election would turn out?

It is my opinion that even here in Utah people were soured by the antics of the Bush/Cheney administration and it flows over to local politics also.

We will listen to your ideas and watch your votes one one subject only: ILLEGAL immigration. Your opinion on this issue will give us all the information we need to make a judgement on other issues you have. Stand with the citizens of Utah or be defeated in the next election.

I thought it was time for Hatch to go way back in 1980 when he beat out Frank Moss.

Both are globalists, no doubt about it. One indicator I will be watching is to see how hard they fight against Sotomayor.

It is time for all the pup tent republicans in Utah, to nominate the most true blue, dyed in the wool, fringe right, candidates possible. Only by returning to your constitutional roots can you restore moral and financial discipline to our great county. ( It will also free up the moderate center, and give the Democrats a chance in the general election.) So, by all means, get rid of Bennet, and Hatch!

If they keep getting more conservative they will implode into little black balls of rage from which no humanity can escape. No one would vote for them, except utah and maybe texas.

Republicans are realizing that they must be more consistent. Bush set the benchmark by proving that wandering from a consistent philosophy did not bring in more independent/democrat voters, it only brought him more contempt. However, it's funny that challengers like Shurtleff/Bridgewater come in arguing that they are more conservative, when they have already proven that they are more inconsistent than the incumbents. Professional politicians should go home, but they should be replaced by new faces, not just by political hacks from a different venue.

Bennett and Hatch lost touch with Utah a LONG TIME AGO. We are sick of these moderates who only talk conservative when it comes time to run again.

Voters should term limit every politicians "time served" by voting them out every 12 years.

It's pathetic when political diversity is not tolerated in Utah. Wacko right wing politics will get Utah nowhere.

You make a mistake in your analysis. The problem with the GOP is not that the tent isn't wide enough...the problem is that they became too much like the Democrats trying to widen the tent. They demonstrated that they're not fiscally conservative which is what got them into power in the 1990's. People want and need fiscal conservativism even more today than ever before. Because of this, former Republicans have turned away from the party to find those who will be true to the constitution and will return sanity to the mess in Washington.

Republicans in D.C. seem not to be able to figure this out and so will continue to be voted out office because of their disconnect with the people who voted them in there in the first place.

told KSL that she had formed a committee to see about running against Bob Bennett. She is actually a conservative, and pretty sharp.

If she runs, she has a better chance than Shurtleff or Bridgewater of willing the seat in the US Senate.

I will vote for whom ever, that does not vote for "tax and spend" laws.

There should be only two terms in office. You should go to serve your country and then live with the laws you have passed, like everyone else.

Bennett and Hatch haven't learned the lesson of Chris Cannon yet. They both favor illegal aliens over U.S. citizens every chance they get. Utahns are sick of illegals overrunning the state and watching these two vote with La Raza and greedy corporations instead of us. Bennett would turn the country over to Mexico if he could and so would Shurtleff so he isn't much better. Shurtleff got an award from the government of Mexico for his stellar record as attorney general in not enforcing immigration laws.
Any candidate who wants to "hispander" is going to learn a tough lesson in the next election.The people of Utah are ready for immigration enforcement and don't want amnesty in any form in spite of what the Deseret News tries to pedal on a daily basis. Jason Chaffetz was perceptive enough to tap into this frustration and turn it against Cannon. If Hatch and Bennett keep pushing amnesty they will be finding a new line of work. It may be time anyway.

Can U.S. Sens. Bob Bennett and Orrin Hatch get more conservative?