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Utah Republicans Oust Sen. Bob Bennett in Anti-Incumbent Rage
by Tom Diemer

Sen. Bob Bennett, a conservative who fell out of favor among even more conservative Republicans in an anti-incumbent rage, failed to get his party's nomination in Utah Saturday, making it very difficult for him to seek a fourth term.

The gangly, bespectacled senator finished third in the second round of balloting at the Republican state convention in Salt Lake City, sealing his fate, the Salt Lake Tribune reported. Businessman Tim Bridgewater and lawyer and Tea Party favorite Mike Lee finished first and second respectively and will face off in a June 22 primary.

When results were announced there were shouts of "he's gone, he's gone," as some GOP delegates waved "Do Not Tread On Me" flags -- a favored symbol of the aggressively conservative Tea Party movement.

In defeat, Bennett becomes the first incumbent Utah senator to be deprived of his party's nomination since Democrats ousted Sen. William King in 1940 over his opposition to the New Deal, the Tribune said.

Bennett, 76, was in tears, saying "the political atmosphere obviously has been toxic and it's very clear that some of the votes I have cast have added to the toxic environment." He was faulted, in particular, for supporting the Troubled Asset Relief Program -- the so-called bailout bill. He could yet try a write-in candidacy, but it would be a huge challenge.

19 Yet she became more and more promiscuous as she recalled the days of her youth, when she was a prostitute in Egypt. 20 There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses.

A shame that Tea Baggers have so much support.

And he's right about toxicity. Current Conservative ideals are toxic to our nation.

A shame that Tea Baggers have so much support.

And he's right about toxicity. Current Conservative ideals are toxic to our nation.

A shame that Tea Baggers have so much support.

And he's right about toxicity. Current Conservative ideals are toxic to our nation.

Facism is not a school of thought, it is a racial slur.

A shame that Tea Baggers have so much support.

And he's right about toxicity. Current Conservative ideals are toxic to our nation.

19 Yet she became more and more promiscuous as she recalled the days of her youth, when she was a prostitute in Egypt. 20 There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses.

A shame that Tea Baggers have so much support.

And he's right about toxicity. Current Conservative ideals are toxic to our nation.

How and why? Defend your assertions logically, and explain how fiscal conservatism is a bad thing. Furthermore, please explain how the corporatist/neo-mercantilist economic model has been a success anywhere it's been tried.

How and why? Defend your assertions logically, and explain how fiscal conservatism is a bad thing. Furthermore, please explain how the corporatist/neo-mercantilist economic model has been a success anywhere it's been tried.

Well, it took long enough, but we've found a replacement who finds enjoyment in name-calling once they've found a name that aggravates people.

19 Yet she became more and more promiscuous as she recalled the days of her youth, when she was a prostitute in Egypt. 20 There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses.

*popcorn*

In comic strips the person on the left always speaks first. - George Carlin

Are we really going down this road?

Are we really going down this road?

We have other roads here? When did that happen?

19 Yet she became more and more promiscuous as she recalled the days of her youth, when she was a prostitute in Egypt. 20 There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses.