Bob Bennett

Here are some photos from last Saturday's Utah State Republican Convention which I covered for the Deseret News. Delegates cheer as Senator Bob Bennett is ousted Senator Bob Bennett Utah Congressman Jason Chaffetz Congressman Rob Bishop Utah Governor Gary R. Herbert U.S. Senate candidate Cherilyn Eagar U.S. Senate candidate Mike Lee...Read Full Story

Deseret News'Excommunicated' by GOP, Bob Bennett says Romney, religion, economy make 2012 ...Deseret NewsBy Jared Whitley US Senator Bob Bennett talks about his experience working with Howard Hughes during "The Hoax" (fake autobiography written about Hughes that Bennett helped debunk) in Salt Lake City, Utah, Sunday, Oct. 24, 2010.Read Full Story

Provo, Utah During the 10 years I was editor of one of Salt Lake City’s two daily newspapers, one of my regular visitors was US Sen. Bob Bennett. Related posts:Michael Barone: In Utah, A Tough Year for the Overdog By MICHAEL BARONE In the early 1990s, when incumbent members... Doesn’t John McBush owe the Voters a Alzheimers Test? He has 6 of 10 warning signs!!!? http://www.democrats.com/mccain-owes-america-an-alzheimers-test1. Memory loss.McCain forgot that he had a personal meeting...Read Full Story

First it was Florida's moderate Republican Gov. Charlie Crist who was forced to bolt from the GOP because of the teabagger and extremists in the GOP who were rallying behind the rather scary Marco Rubio. Now in Utah the GOP convention has given incumbent GOP U.S. Senator Bob Bennett his walking papers by defeating his nomination to run for an additional term. Bennett's sin? He is "too liberal." Bennett is not exactly my idea of a "liberal, but apparently, unless one is to the right of Attila...Read Full Story

U.S. Sen. Bob Bennett, facing a wave of conservative opposition as he seeks a fourth term, squared off with seven GOP challengers in a debate Friday as candidates tried to win over delegates who meet next month to choose the party's nomination.Most of the resistance to Bennett has centered around his support for the federal bailout of the financial industry. But Bennett's opponents have also criticized him for his unwavering defense of earmarks, which send taxpayer dollars to projects in...Read Full Story

Two term Senator Bob Bennett of Utah lost out on his bid for re-election Saturday. During a tearful concession speech he alluded to the poisonous atmosphere of the political times. Across the country the mark of a new wave of conservatism is taking root. The current meme in the national press is the claim that Bob Bennett is the first causality of the new wave.This is wrong, as is usually the case when the media tries to describe anything conservative in this country. The first causalities of...Read Full Story

WASHINGTON D.C. - Senator Bob Bennett (R-Utah) and Sen. David Vitter (R-La.) introduced an amendment today that would only allow continued funding of the 2010 census if the census includes a question of citizenship status on all future decennial censuses. “The system is broken and areas of the country with high illegal populations should not be rewarded with greater representation in Congress” said Bennett, a member of the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs committee. “The...Read Full Story

On Saturday Utah Republican Senator Bob Bennett was defeated by two more conservative candidates at the State’s Republican Convention. Bennett, who is in his third term, will not even be able to put his political fate in the hands of Utah’s Republican voters in a primary. In short, Bennett was forced out, because many conservatives determined that he was simply not conservative enough. Bennett voted for TARP, he worked with Democrat Ron Wyden on a health care proposal and he voted in favor of...Read Full Story

GOP Senator Bob Bennett of Utah has been a target of conservative grass-roots and RedState’s Erick Erickson for the past few months. And it’s worked. Bennett failed to win the GOP State Party caucus which nominates the Senatorial candidate. Bennett has received a lot of grief (and rightfully so) for his vote in favor of the [...] Related posts:Poll: Massa in the centerIn historic vote, United States House passes Patient Protection and Affordable …Read Full Story

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