Orrin Hatch fails to clinch GOP nomination in Utah — by 0.9%

"Radical Libertarians" win a round, take Hatch to the primary.

The Tea Party movement is alive in Utah. With representatives from FreedomWorks in the audience, delegates at the Utah Republican Convention managed to force Sen. Orrin Hatch into a June 26 primary. He got 59.2 percent of their votes against Dan Liljenquist, a 38-year-old state senator. Hatch needed 60 percent to avoid the primary. He couldn’t do it. In two rounds of voting, he went from 2,243 votes to 2,313 votes. If he’d gotten 32 more votes, he would have wrapped this up…

Yeah, the last point is key. 59.1 percent sounds hopeless for Liljenquist if it’s an accurate reflection of Republican voters in Utah, but there’s bound to be a burst of tea-party enthusiasm for him now that he and Richard Mourdock are the last best chance to tilt the GOP further right at the federal level. Hatch did himself no favors either when he said this recently of his opponents on the right, FreedomWorks:

“These people are not conservatives. They’re not Republicans,” Hatch angrily responds. “They’re radical libertarians and I’m doggone offended by it.”



http://hotair.com/archives/2012/04/21/o ... ah-by-0-9/

"Radical Libertarians" win a round, take Hatch to the primary.

The Tea Party movement is alive in Utah. With representatives from FreedomWorks in the audience, delegates at the Utah Republican Convention managed to force Sen. Orrin Hatch into a June 26 primary. He got 59.2 percent of their votes against Dan Liljenquist, a 38-year-old state senator. Hatch needed 60 percent to avoid the primary. He couldn’t do it. In two rounds of voting, he went from 2,243 votes to 2,313 votes. If he’d gotten 32 more votes, he would have wrapped this up…

Yeah, the last point is key. 59.1 percent sounds hopeless for Liljenquist if it’s an accurate reflection of Republican voters in Utah, but there’s bound to be a burst of tea-party enthusiasm for him now that he and Richard Mourdock are the last best chance to tilt the GOP further right at the federal level. Hatch did himself no favors either when he said this recently of his opponents on the right, FreedomWorks:

“These people are not conservatives. They’re not Republicans,” Hatch angrily responds. “They’re radical libertarians and I’m doggone offended by it.”



http://hotair.com/archives/2012/04/21/o ... ah-by-0-9/

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But but but ... the MSM told me the Tea Party movement was dead. We're all supposed to be Occuturds now. How could this have happened?

But but but ... the MSM told me the Tea Party movement was dead. We're all supposed to be Occuturds now. How could this have happened?

The Occupy movement has overstayed its moment, like fish and visitors.

In the meantime, the Tea Party Members have steeped, and steamed, as on they went to work, and waited for the light, and went without the meat, and cursed the ill-bred,

to dream of the day, one fine November day, which all of those who Occupy must dread.

But but but ... the MSM told me the Tea Party movement was dead. We're all supposed to be Occuturds now. How could this have happened?

The Occupy movement has overstayed its moment, like fish and visitors.

In the meantime, the Tea Party Members have steeped, and steamed, as on they went to work, and waited for the light, and went without the meat, and cursed the ill-bred,

to dream of the day, one fine November day, which all of those who Occupy must dread.