Jed Babbin has the top story at Human Events today and previews a number of races around the country.
I’ve got to take issue with one though. Jed writes: “Retired Navy pilot Mike Lee is challenging Sen. Bob Bennett for the Republican nomination this year. Lee seems like a great guy and some day may be a great candidate. But Bennett’s conservative credentials — though imperfect (he’s an earmark lover) are pretty solid.”
Mike isn’t a retired Navy pilot and in my mind Bennett has few conservative credentials to stand on.
Bennett is in favor of federal same sex marriage benefit laws, in favor of government funding of abortion, in favor of massive earmarks, in favor of an individual mandate for health care, in favor of amnesty and the Bush immigration plan, in favor of the bailouts and TARP, opposed to the balanced budget amendment, opposed to earmarks reform, and the list goes on and on.
Bennett’s conservative credentials consist of three letters and a typographical symbol: R-UT
People just assume with those, he must be conservative. But nothing could be further from the truth.
All that said about my current soapbox issue, Jed nails it with Ovide Lamontagne in New Hampshire, Les Phillips in Alabama, Allen West in Florida, and Tim Burns in Pennsylvania, among others. It is well worth a read.
Daniel Horowitz
Neil Stevens
Moe Lane
Steve Maley
Jake Walker
I think we're on board with this, EE
Vassar Bushmills (Diary) Monday, February 22nd at 5:32PM EST (link)…Parley Pratt (Mike Lee), a pistol-packing Christian.
Now is this time. We need more.
Now quit preaching to the choir, and find those who can make it happen. You did well with Scott Brown,
Cordially
Bennett Conservative??????
saintgeorgegentile Monday, February 22nd at 5:44PM EST (link)I think Mr. Babbin needs to do a bit more research before putting his (rarely) foolish opinions on paper. There are 4 candidates vying for the opportunity to retire Bennett and Mr. Babbin does a disservice to three of them by not mentioning their candidacies.
http://www.eagarforsenate.com/index.php
http://www.mikelee2010.com/
http://www.timbridgewater.com/Tim/Main.html
http://www.voteforjameswilliams.com/index1.html
Freedom is the glue of capitalism, that amoral wisdom of the markets that most efficiently allots goods and services to a citizenry.
-Victor Davis Hanson
Babbin
utah_1 Monday, February 22nd at 5:55PM EST (link)Maybe Jed joins Erick Erickson, FreedomWorks, Dick Armey, and a whole host of Utah State Rep and Senate Conservatives in feeling like Mike Lee is the ONLY one who can beat Bennett and return the RedState of Utah back into the hands of a Constitutional Conservative. If that were the case, why the need to mention them?
Babin is part of Republican Media
Conservative_not_Republican (Diary) Monday, February 22nd at 7:58PM EST (link)“Conservative” media is, in reality, primarily “Republican” media. In talk radio and the print/ internet media, few commentators will ever oppose a sitting Republican. Many, like Rush Limbaugh even avoid taking sides in a primary involving no incumbent. Mark Levin has been an exception. He has come out for J.D. Hayworth over John McCain.
It ishould not be surprising that Babin and other “conservative” media support Bennett. In the end, they are part of the same political elite.
It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once.–David Hume
Quoted in The Road to Serfdom by F.A. Hayek