There will be no re-election campaign for US senator Bob Bennett. He was canned at the Utah Republican convention. Bennet promised to serve two terms when he was first elected; then he decided to turn the job into a life long endeavor.
SALT LAKE CITY – Republican Sen. Bob Bennett was thrown out of office Saturday by delegates at the Utah GOP convention in a stunning defeat for a once-popular three-term incumbent who fell victim to a growing conservative movement nationwide.
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Bennett was under fire for voting to bail out Wall Street, co-sponsoring a bipartisan bill mandating health insurance coverage and for aggressively pursuing earmarks. He tried to reassure delegates Saturday, before any voting, that he is a fiscal conservative.
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Some delegates, who tend to be more conservative than other Utah Republicans, were also upset he's still in office after initially promising to only serve two terms when first elected in 1992.
Good for Utah. It's good to see conservative Republicans giving a good swift kick to the backside of the good ol' boy network of the national Republican Party that has thumbed its nose at conservatism for so long.
Arizona? South Carolina? Maine? You guys listening?
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Politics, it seems to me, all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong. ~Richard Armour
Utah US Senator Bob Bennett Ousted
