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BumRushDaShow

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14. Hatch is up for re-election this year
Thu Mar 1, 2012, 08:38 AM
Mar 2012

He watched the teabaggers in his state dispatch of Bob Bennett in 2010 and he knows he is next. It's remarkable to see how even further to the insane crazy right he has gone, but it's all to save his own hide.

The rethug governor who he endorsed refuses to endorse him:

http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/politics/53607090-90/argument-bid-doesn-doing.html.csp

The Chief of Staff for the one who booted Bennett out feels that he is going to lose:

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0212/73144.html

The sudden departure of Olympia Snow just killed one of his last chances for justifying re-election:

http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/jazz/53608849-90/campaign-finance-hatch-republican.html.csp

And so what does he do? The comfortable and familiar - juvenile cheap shots at the President.

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