Comments about ‘Conservative group endorses Mike Lee for Senate’

I love the flat tax idea since it is the only fair system, but it will never happen. Liberals will just scream that it's a tax cut for the wealthy & a tax hike for the poor. Their definition of fair is way off base.

I am sick of out of state interest groups trying to tell me who to vote for. First Club for Growth and now this group. All of this makes me want to take a second look at Bennett. I mean, if all these DC groups are against Bennett how establishment can he be?

Unfortunately I think you're right. To liberals, "fair" in terms of taxation means sticking it to the wealthy and giving the poor a free ride. Usually the wealthy are wealthy because of good, intelligent, productive behavior and the poor are poor because of bad, dumb, lazy behavior. America will never reach her potential with the tax code the way it is.

Lee is way too right wing, much more so than his dad. But it is interesting to see the GOP feed on each other.

Yea! Split that right-wing fanatic vote. Bennett is not Republican enough. Gotta love it Baby!

Gingrich's endorsement is very negative. Talk about ethics issues. Can we get someone to bring ETHICS reform to congress? Maybe Term Lmits? Run on the real issues in congress. If it wasn't for our representatives being personal invested in the very corporations and organizations they govern, this country wouldn't be in the mess it is in today!

Do Conservative forget that President Reagan raised taxes and was known as "the Babe Ruth of deficit spending?" What saved the economy was Reagan re-appointing John Volcher as head of the Treasury. Thankfully, Reagan followed President Carter advice and kept Volcher in control of the Federal Reserve which lead us out of the mess created by the Nixon/Ford presidencies.

Under the flat tax most of you (middle class) will pay a lot more in taxes than now. The very rich will save a lot more and hopefully will trickle down to us. 20% of someone making 25K a year is not the same as someone making 250K a year.

I don't agree with the argument against the flat tax. To me, it's just plain wrong that nearly 50% of all Americans pay no taxes, and in fact, get the other half of the countries money distributed back to them.

If you had to go around to 50% of your neighbors with a letter from the IRS authorizing you to take $50 from each person, you would feel much differently about it, but that is the truth of what is happening. It's messed up and wrong.

Mike Lee has the answers and plans to help SAVE this country. We're in a mess, and we need STRONG constitutional based leaders, like Mike Lee, to clean this mess up.

I like Cherilyn Eagar's proposals better.

I believe that Cherilyn Eagar is the only one running who has supported and been active in fighting for conservative values for the last 30 years at the local, state, national and international level. [That includes Bennett]

Someone show me that Lee has past actions you can base a vote on?

Lee seems to be on both sides of too many issues

Does he support protecting marriage at the federal level if required?

Does he believe in "Free Trade", or "Fair and Free trade"?

How many supporters will he loose if he answers those two questions?

If I understand Cherilyn Eagar re: Marriage/family protection

She supports the existing Defense of Marriage Act at the federal level.

She would support each state having a marriage protection amendment.

If the states can not hold their own against the federal gov [or the courts?] in protecting marriage and family, she would then support a federal marriage amendment.

Where is Mike Lee on this? Too chicken to say?

Bennett: I guess the $2 million and the last year didn't work

In March of 2009 Senator Bob Bennett was rated one of the ten most liberal Republicans in the Senate by Human Events based on the American Conservative Union Ratings for 2008.

Why Bennett spent $2 million to convince voters he is Conservative is beyond me?

I guess he is now going to start spending money saying he will save our money from being spent.

The time to have picked one conservative candidate for Utah's 2010 US Senate race was in May of 2009.

Bennett had started running ads on TV about January 2009. We needed people to step up to challenge him.

Cherilyn Eagar asked Mike Lee the end of May 2009 if he was, or was not, getting in the US Senate race before she got in the race - prior to the State GOP Convention where thousands of delegates would be there.

Lee wouldn’t decide. Eagar made her decision. She was at the June 2009 Utah GOP convention with a booth, Lee wasn’t.

I have been asking Mike Lee what he was doing re: the race since Feb. 2009. Finally, in Nov. 2009, about the time Mark Shurtleff dropped out, Lee decided to get in, but made a calculated decision to announce he was running 2 months later, right after the FEC quarterly filing deadline.

Where did Mike Lee get the definition of Transparency?

"Lee has represented EnergySolutions in the radioactive waste company's effort to import foreign waste to the state and said Tuesday that Utah and the Northwest Interstate Compact On Low-Level Radioactive Waste Management improperly sought to stop the company from disposing of 1,600 tons of low-level radioactive waste from Italy at its Utah site. "

Bennett unconsitutional Healthcare vote
Bennett's bill, S.391 Healthy Americans Act, had some of the same provisions that Bennett voted that the current healthcare bill was unconstitutional.

I guess it was fine for Bennett's bill to be unconstitutional, but the democrats bill, which is unconstitutional is not OK?

Time to Replace Senator Bob Bennett.

Mike Lee personifies the grass roots movement that has taken hold in Utah where the status quo is not acceptable any longer. He has momentum where other candidates are lack-luster. When a candidate sets up their first booth is not a marker of support or strength. Growing volunteer support, consistent donations and a clear stand on the issues that resonate with the electorate are an indication of political viability. Lee has the attention of the grass roots participants, many of whom are promoting the participation of delegates and support advocates of limited government. Lee's record of working to take back Utah's federally-owned land, opposition to any legislation that attacks the family, marriage or right to life, his commitment to tax reform, limited spending, states rights and his promotion of Constitutionally based accountability are the reasons to vote for him. Whomever can channel the energy ignited by the Tea-Party & 9/12 movements as well as local conservative revivalism is the only candidate that can beat Sen. Bennett. So far, that may not be the candidate that announced first, but in the end, Mike Lee is gaining the momentum needed to finish last.

I love all the comments that are obviously from the various campaigns. The best are the ones you see on every comment board mentioning the Senate race...I think you know who you are.

We know who we are, but do you? ;-)

Don't know for sure who has the inside track on this issue, but one thing's for sure: MIke Lee knows who he is, and knows what he stands for, and that's the fact that we need to do something to turn this runaway spending around, and we need to do it fast.