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Title: Utah Republicans Oust Sen. Bob Bennett in Anti-Incumbent Rage
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Politics Daily
URL Source: http://www.politicsdaily.com/2010/0 ... ennett-in-anti-incumbent-rage/
Published: May 10, 2010
Author: Tom Diemer
Post Date: 2010-05-10 14:42:56 by Original_Intent
Keywords: citizen, revolt, corrupt, rejection
Views: 208
Comments: 24
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. Poster's Comment: Notice the word usage in the article and how it is spun. It reminds me of the News Reader comment in '92 that the public had "thrown a temper tantrum" by throwing out the Democrat majority. Notice the phraseology such as "aggressively conservative" Tea Party movement. In other words citizens who object to corrupt government are being "aggressive". As well poooooooor Bennet was "in tears" over the "toxic environment". Notice the headline and how it is an anti-ecumbent "rage". It has little to do with how Bennet betrayed his constituents or spit on the Constitution but that the voters are in a "rage" thus implying that it was an act not born of rational thought. Unfortunately most sheeple, including those who pay credence to this kind of crap will never even realize that their emotional responses are being manipulated.
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#1. To: Original_Intent (#0)
The mental image I got is of the zombies from "28 Days Later" mobbing a polling station, eyes aflame, spittle flying from gaping, gnashing mouths, minds incoherent, fiending to vote against the mild mannered, harmless, bespectacled senator. Ripping the poor polling workers limb from limb in their frenzy to get at the polling stations. If only they could be more reasonable.
While it's nice to see a frenzied electorate ... they're shooting too low ... kill the banks and bankers !!!
"The smallest of frauds such as Santa Claus are perpetrated upon children by criminals in order that the largest of frauds such as the FEDERAL RESERVE may be had upon them as adults."
Neither of Utah's two Republican congressmen were at risk of losing their seats, and Republican Gov. Gary Herbert easily won his party's nomination. Last week, voters in primaries in North Carolina and Ohio retained their incumbents, while those in Indiana turned to a former senator -- Republican Dan Coats. More like anti-neocon and anti-bushbot rage. The era of the "compassionate conservative" liberal globalists, is over. It's tempting to generalize and say that all incumbents are the problem, and must go. A very few incumbents may be worth keeping, Ron Paul for example. Scumbags are the problem, not incumbents. They come in two varieties... new candidates, and present office holders. Getting rid of the old ones, holds no guarantee that the new ones will be any better. There's no substitute for due diligence, and keeping a close watch on our government. Wee People have failed, and scum has taken over.
If only they could be more reasonable. Bingo! Yes, those crazy Tea Partiers they are just so unreasonable - expecting the government to be inconvenienced by the Constitution and responsive to the needs and wants of the citizens. Just who in the hell do they think they are? Americans? Not in this USSA. They should shut up, go home, and do as they're told instead of making unreasonable demands for honest and responsive government. Why THE Nerrrrrrrrrrrrrrve!
"One of the least understood strategies of the world revolution now moving rapidly toward its goal is the use of mind control as a major means of obtaining the consent of the people who will be subjects of the New World Order." K.M. Heaton, The National Educator
Tears. That's so sweet. I only wish the rest of the state GOP organizations were as tough as Utah.
Anything with even the faintest whiff of populism will always draw fire from the Beltway media. The Tea Party is a political movement that is part and parcel of the entire talk radio, Fox News, and the rightwing blogosphere. IOW, everything that libmedia hates because it is stealing their lunch with the liberal media titans of yesteryear downsizing fast, shrinking up their pagecounts, discounting subscriptions heavily and still going broke. So libmedia loathes anything like the Tea Party. This is why they rant about teabaggers and such. They're in a rage that, of all groups, this bunch is going up against them. They also know that the right wing has done a lot to close the gap in 527 organizations of all kinds to counter and mimic groups like MoveOn and other Soros-funded organizations. They had had a free run in that area of politics.
How can this be construed as anything but good news? Am I alone in my thinking here?
The rulers don't yet realize the depth and breadth of the white-hot anger that is roiling among we the people who are expected to support, with both dollars and blood, the insanity that the regime is trying to force upon us.
The one thing the elites, in their psychotic envelope, simply do not comprehend is "the spirit of '76". It is such a foreign concept to them that it simply does not compute. They are so convinced, and without any evidence, of their "superiority" that "the rabble" taking effective action and even being willing to sacrifice "their lives, their fortunes, and stand defiant in defense of their sacred honor simply is not something they are capable of understanding. They are not merely evil they're nuts.
"One of the least understood strategies of the world revolution now moving rapidly toward its goal is the use of mind control as a major means of obtaining the consent of the people who will be subjects of the New World Order." K.M. Heaton, The National Educator
No, it is good news - even very good news, but the point I'm making, directly and indirectly, is that the elites are afraid of the rise of such as the Tea Party and the rebirth of the Militia Movement. Combine that with all the other good signs and they are running scared. That they have already lost does not occur to them and like a snake with its head cut off they will continue to thrash for some time.
"One of the least understood strategies of the world revolution now moving rapidly toward its goal is the use of mind control as a major means of obtaining the consent of the people who will be subjects of the New World Order." K.M. Heaton, The National Educator
That is because they regard themselves as "innately superior" to the "common herd". It is not merely that it is associated with "conservative" media, but that there is a resurgence of defense of the rights of the ordinary citizen. Since they despise the ordinary citizen anything which we do which even holds the potential to upset what they regard as "the natural order of things" frightens them. They are basically cowards, and are afraid, because deep down inside they know just how massive their betrayal has been.
"One of the least understood strategies of the world revolution now moving rapidly toward its goal is the use of mind control as a major means of obtaining the consent of the people who will be subjects of the New World Order." K.M. Heaton, The National Educator
Lod, I hope tou are correct. Nothing short of well spent dollars and blood shed by "real patriots" will clean up the mess we are in. There are many on this forum that believe a few votes cast here and there is all it will take. They are no more than what we used to call Rino's.Jeyhro, I believe as you do that this is a good thing. The powers that be will double their efforts using corporate money and their media friends to try and stop this from happening to other lousy encumbents.
Bloodshed plays directly into the hands of the controllers and I pray to God that it does not come to that. Not that I am a pacifist but strategically they hold the upper hand on the violence card. We, at least I hope we are not, will not kill indiscriminately and in wholesale. They will if cornered. They have been planning for that and even counting on it as a way to provide a fig leaf of justification for massive police state actions against anyone directly opposing their power. What we are doing now is more effective in the long run because it provides them with no pretext. Operating at the State and Local level, pushing on initiatives to re-establish State's legitimate authority and the legitimate authority residing with the people undercuts their actions to enslave us. I foresee a day when their supporters have shrunk to the point where their ability to impose force as a solution has dissipated. Until then we must continue to slog in the trenches standing up and manfully saying NO.
"One of the least understood strategies of the world revolution now moving rapidly toward its goal is the use of mind control as a major means of obtaining the consent of the people who will be subjects of the New World Order." K.M. Heaton, The National Educator
They do hold the upper hand and are incrementally squeezing us because there are too many cowards who think they will capitulate and give up their destructive power. Thomas Jefferson told us what would be necessary to ensure our freedoms and justice under our Constitution. Unfortunately there are those who believe it may have been necessary during Jefferson's time, but now we are educated and simply voting the tyrants out will do the trick. Our Founding Father's knew back then what it would take to gauin our "INDEPENDENCE" from king george and it took the Revolutionary War. Those who take the stand of non violence and no revolution will wake up one day and wonder how in the hell they came to be wearing chains and leg irons in an enclosed compound. I too wish all it would take is to vote them out, but they count the votes. I commend you for being honest enough to state your cowardice for all to see. Now, your chains are ready and you have an opportunity to have a proper fitting if you swear allegience to TPTB.
I think you are confusing the desire to not provide a pretext with an unwillingness to fight. At this point in time violence would simply be futile and counterproductive. The time for violent confrontation came and passed with the death of JFK. However, too few were awake. Now our greatest strength is growing numbers and a simple unwillingness to bend our neck to the yoke. Their control still depends upon keeping people hoodwinked, pacified, and unaware. Take a good look at Freetardia and you have your average "movement" conservative. The numbers who, at this time, who would be willing to stand and fight is so miniscule as to be insignificant. Violent confrontation, at this time, would simply result in a clampdown so tight that it would be impossible to do anything to counter what they are doing. And the gibbering deluded microencephalic drooling defectives at Freeptardia would applaud it. However, even as a minority our numbers now are greater than those actually on the inside of the self styled elite, and more wake up daily. Some are incapable of waking up and so must be disregarded as the poor pathetic wannabe a slave that they are. The path back certainly includes the willingness to fight but the fight must be carried out with means other than force of arms, because if comes to that we lose.
"One of the least understood strategies of the world revolution now moving rapidly toward its goal is the use of mind control as a major means of obtaining the consent of the people who will be subjects of the New World Order." K.M. Heaton, The National Educator
I'll say it once more. You are a coward plain and simple and speaking of simple, you're that too. As I stated before, there will come a day when we won't have the ability to cast off our opressors. England had the upper hand and a small ragtag army with the love of freedom won independence. You have been dumbed down and been propagandized way too much. Now run along and tell your buddy Obama you want a fitting for your chains and leg irons!!
Temper tantrums do not advance the cause of liberty either. However, they are dreadfully amusing. I long ago ceased being worried about what immature people think of my position. My position is arrived at by examining the facts and following the consequences of actions to their most likely conclusion. A violent revolt, without a central unifying cadre, is foredoomed to failure and would do more damage than anything else. That you are incapable, or unwilling, of looking at the data and consequences of various actions objectively is your responsibility not mine. A generalized uprising would accomplish nothing other than creating a great deal of misery and result in the slaughter of massive numbers of innocent people. That is why, while we still have the ability, we must fight back by alerting, educating, and opposing by noncompliance and any other legal means what has occurred. Ideas, whose time has come, are more powerful than any military force. And opposition through peeling back the veil and exposing the malefactors is still an order of magnitude more effective than futile chest beating followed by group suicide.
"One of the least understood strategies of the world revolution now moving rapidly toward its goal is the use of mind control as a major means of obtaining the consent of the people who will be subjects of the New World Order." K.M. Heaton, The National Educator
The rebels also had powerful allies in the form of France and Russia. You also really should read more history. The revolt of '76 was preceded by nearly 80 years of remonstrance and compromise while the festering resentment grew. The Revolutionary War was the result of the failure of England, and the Crown, to recognize that the colonists were quite serious. However, the colonists were not waging war against their own local governments they were waging war against a foreign entity bent on subjugating them and milking the colonies dry. While fighting spirit is admirable we do not have a Continental Congress nor a George Washington to unite the nation. As well we have not reached the point where it is even necessary to take up arms. We are not "backs against the wall" and no other option. A wise general, such as Sun Tzu, well understood that the most successfully conducted battle is the one that defeats the enemy without the need of armed conflict. The taking up of arms is a last resort because the widespread death and destruction it would bring is not a light matter to contemplate. Nor is its outcome certain. At this point in time it would only speed up the creation of the slave state.
"One of the least understood strategies of the world revolution now moving rapidly toward its goal is the use of mind control as a major means of obtaining the consent of the people who will be subjects of the New World Order." K.M. Heaton, The National Educator
So our strategy is to primary out RINOs and install the better option, correct? Haywood over McCain comes to mind. And to carry it over, do we do this in November? Vote for the lesser in effect? Has the Kenyan Marxist put us back into the voting booths?
Into our all so hackable, black-box, voting booths. The Help America Vote Act was a very real nail in the Liberty coffin.
Scott Brown bump ?? Boy, that did a lot of fucking good...
In part. I'm not advocating passivity i.e., go in and robotically pull a lever on a rigged machine. The Tea Party, despite it's NeoCon overtones, is a step in the right direction. Nullification by the States is another. It is like the old liberal cliche "think globally, act locally". It is like a game of chess. The threat of violence hovers there in the background thus strengthening the "resolve" of our political class. It was a comment by the great Chess Master Wilhelm Von Steinetz that an unrealized threat has more power than one that has been executed. It creates that tension that forces the other side to deal gingerly with the implied threat. Their fear of our going "Postal" forces them to deal with that issue and distracts from others. Just as we cannot be everywhere all at once neither can they. So, we are in a tactical game (another chessism - tactical: that is where threats and implied threats have real force). Despite pandemic corruption the creaking machinery still churns along and anything exposed which they cannot cover has to be prosecuted. The game is attrition. There are more of us then there are of them and to a large degree their power is dependent upon maintaining the facade that all is normal and not have broad swaths of the general public aware of what they are really doing. Individually we have a certain degree of strength however, it is as a group that we can exert much greater force. There is not just safety in numbers but strength. So their achilles heel is that they must maintain that pretense of normalcy and keeping their actions hidden. Most of their psych games lose their control value the moment someone becomes aware of what is going on. So, we are hanging on for dear life while trying to get enough people awake and aware to turn back the tide of totalitarianism.
"One of the least understood strategies of the world revolution now moving rapidly toward its goal is the use of mind control as a major means of obtaining the consent of the people who will be subjects of the New World Order." K.M. Heaton, The National Educator
Excess of populism is rightly condemned by those who know their American history. That said, the Beltway political and libmedia elite tends to consider anything that comes from the citizenry that conflicts with the all-big-government-all-the-time liberal philosophy of both of the District's crime families as a bunch of hicks and boobs throwing a temper tantrum, regardless of the merits of their complaints. It is another way to blunt any reflection of policy from outside the Beltway and to treat the entire country as though they are outsiders and somehow illegitimate because they are not recognized think tanks, libmedia outlets, representatives of the incestuous and corrupt Beltway system and its empire.
As I see it, this is our only peaceful option. I'm going to vote for the most conservative available. If none are available, I won't vote. I do want to see Pelosi lose her Chair and Reid and Spector sent packing. I can help to dump Spector, and I will.
#2. To: Original_Intent (#0)
#3. To: Original_Intent (#0)
Opposition to Bennett couldn't be chalked up solely to anti-incumbency fervor.
My joy over McCain's defeat, is offset by my disappointment over hObama's victory.
#4. To: echo5sierra (#1)
The mental image I got is of the zombies from "28 Days Later" mobbing a polling station, eyes aflame, spittle flying from gaping, gnashing mouths, minds incoherent, fiending to vote against the mild mannered, harmless, bespectacled senator. Ripping the poor polling workers limb from limb in their frenzy to get at the polling stations.
#5. To: Original_Intent (#0)
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."
#6. To: Original_Intent (#0)
#7. To: Original_Intent, all (#0)
#8. To: Jethro Tull, 4 (#7)
#9. To: Lod, Jethro Tull, 4 (#8)
The rulers don't yet realize the depth and breadth of the white-hot anger that is roiling among we the people who are expected to support, with both dollars and blood, the insanity that the regime is trying to force upon us.
#10. To: Jethro Tull (#7)
How can this be construed as anything but good news? Am I alone in my thinking here?
#11. To: TooConservative (#6)
Anything with even the faintest whiff of populism will always draw fire from the Beltway media.
#12. To: Lod, Jethro Tull (#8)
The rulers don't yet realize the depth and breadth of the white-hot anger that is roiling among we the people who are expected to support, with both dollars and blood, the insanity that the regime is trying to force upon us.
#13. To: LACUMO, Lod, Jethro Tull (#12)
#14. To: Original_Intent, Lod, Jethro Tull, All (#13)
Bloodshed plays directly into the hands of the controllers and I pray to God that it does not come to that. Not that I am a pacifist but strategically they hold the upper hand on the violence card.
#15. To: LACUMO (#14)
Those who take the stand of non violence and no revolution will wake up one day and wonder how in the hell they came to be wearing chains and leg irons in an enclosed compound.
#16. To: Original_Intent (#15)
#17. To: LACUMO (#16)
#18. To: LACUMO (#16)
England had the upper hand and a small ragtag army with the love of freedom won independence.
#19. To: Original_Intent, LACUMO, Lod, all (#13)
#20. To: Jethro Tull, 4 (#19)
Has the Kenyan Marxist put us back into the voting booths?
#21. To: Jethro Tull (#19)
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams 
#22. To: Jethro Tull, LACUMO, Lod, all (#19)
So our strategy is to primary out RINOs and install the better option, correct? Haywood over McCain comes to mind. And to carry it over, do we do this in November? Vote for the lesser in effect? Has the Kenyan Marxist put us back into the voting booths?
#23. To: Original_Intent (#11)
That is because they regard themselves as "innately superior" to the "common herd". It is not merely that it is associated with "conservative" media, but that there is a resurgence of defense of the rights of the ordinary citizen. Since they despise the ordinary citizen anything which we do which even holds the potential to upset what they regard as "the natural order of things" frightens them. They are basically cowards, and are afraid, because deep down inside they know just how massive their betrayal has been.
#24. To: Original_Intent (#22)
In part.
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