Meet the Tea Party Activists Who Defeated Bob Bennett « The Washington Independent
The state’s caucus-and-convention system, however, tells only half the story. Bennett and his fellow GOP casualties did not fall victim to Utah’s election system alone. Nor were they felled simply by some vague anti-incumbent mood. Rather, they were victims of a well-organized and increasingly dominant Tea Party coalition that over the last year has established a tightening grip on Utah’s Republican Party—and that has big plans for the rest of the country as well.
Yeah, why didn’t these pussies do anything about Rob Portman in Ohio? You’d think a patsy like Bush’s OMB director would be easy pickings after running up trillion dollar deficits with unfunded mandates and tax cuts without corresponding budget cuts. But no, in Ohio The Testicles Resting On Chin Party™ could’t raise enough money to openly to challenge Ohio’s Third Frontier jobs initiatives let along a Bushco golden boy so they have to settle on eating their own ultra-conservatives in rightwing states like Utah and Kentucky.