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The other side of the Orrin Hatch story

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Posted By: DVC, 4/29/2022 12:25:16 PM

I held my silence following the death on Saturday of Orrin Hatch, the former long-serving Republican senator from Utah. One doesn’t rush to speak ill of the dead. And besides, Senator Hatch had some redeeming qualities. He was unfailingly gentlemanly and on many issues he was squarely in the same camp as I. But he was also far from a conservative warrior; he was, in fact, part of the uniparty establishment, and pulled his punches on many key issues. For a scathing look at Hatch’s record, check out Michelle Malkin’s essay at Vdare.com:

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I was no fan of Hatch. The easiest a clearest proof of his Uniparty credentials is his close personal friendship with evil, destructive, extremist Ted Kennedy. Lifson points out that Hellary was assisted by Hatch in her first hideous government health evil takeover, now locked in forever.
Maybe, after some reflection, Pierre Delecto is following in the path of "the standard Utah Senator", after all.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: Bogasso 4/29/2022 12:57:21 PM (No. 1141675)
“ His political wisdom was of the wet-finger-in-the-wind variety, claiming a Reagan conservative mantle during election cycles and then throwing constitutional conservatives under the bus once comfortably back in his well-worn Senate committee seats.“ Now replace “Reagan” with “Trump” and the list of current Republican Congress Critters who it describes is depressing.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: TXknitter 4/29/2022 2:01:34 PM (No. 1141734)
The truth about Orrin Hatch which, of course, will get little attention amongst Republicans this week. Therefore, the lying narrative about him will stand and his heirs will be out there begging conservative to donate to the Hatch Center for decades to come. As I read this and Malkin’s outstanding blog about Orrin Hatch, I see there is little hope Utah folks will throw Pierre Delecto to the curb. If they kept an arrogant self-preservationist globalist in there for SEVEN decades, oh well.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: slipstik 4/29/2022 2:13:08 PM (No. 1141740)
The ilk of Orrin Hatch is why I've dumped the Republicrat party. "Civil". Go along to get along. Sucking up lobby bingo. Say one thing, do the other. Chummy with all the big spending orgs. Chummy with democrats of the worst flavor. Mittens and Hatch were of the same cloth. That renders them useless to conservatives. These guys ARE the Republicrat party. There might be 5 good ones out of 100 senators. I'm DONE!!
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Reply 4 - Posted by: Barbara Joy 4/29/2022 2:13:40 PM (No. 1141741)
For years I have kept a list of Republicans who voted with Dems on important bills. Orin Hatch was almost always on it. He is exactly as described in the article. Kevin McCarthy is the same as Hatch as we heard him out himself on that recent recording. Wish we had a video of who the Republican clapping seals were who gave McCarthy such a warm welcome.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: Vaquero45 4/29/2022 2:33:12 PM (No. 1141749)
Hatch proved time and again why he was not to be trusted. Anyone who was friends with Teddy the Swimmer should never have been welcome in Republican circles. There are still way too many Hatches in D.C. - McCarthy, McConnell, Romney et al. We should be working to rid Washington of them. The only time a Republican should “reach across the aisle” should be to punch a Democrat in the mouth.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: Omen55 4/29/2022 2:37:49 PM (No. 1141752)
The guy wrote poems & songs about The Swimmer. Imagine how derange you have to be for that.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: SouthernYankee 4/29/2022 2:44:11 PM (No. 1141760)
Reason 9,875 of why I am not a Republican. I hate republicans but I abhor democrats.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: velirotta 4/29/2022 2:45:55 PM (No. 1141762)
#2, I think most of the people of Utah have finally seen the light. Pierre Delecto and his clones wouldn't have a chance today.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: bighambone 4/29/2022 2:48:13 PM (No. 1141763)
Any so-called wimpy Republican whose mantra is moving across the aisle to find common ground with the leftist, progressive, and socialist Democrats, is nothing more than a great big RINO.
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Reply 10 - Posted by: Trump'sCousin 4/29/2022 3:38:23 PM (No. 1141791)
He should have had his arms removed as punishment for treason for reaching across the isle. I am very suspicious of the coming "red wave" in November. Frankly I think it's hopium. Look at all the traitor rinos....like Hatch.
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Reply 11 - Posted by: smokincol 4/29/2022 3:58:33 PM (No. 1141817)
I never liked, or trusted, oral hatch but he was a hell of a dresser and would make Captain America, Eric Adams proud
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Reply 12 - Posted by: PostAway 4/29/2022 6:51:35 PM (No. 1141918)
The first time I saw him on Meet the Press Hatch was told about some terrible activity by Bill or Hillary Clinton within the White House during the Clinton administration. He said “if it’s true that’s very troubling. Very troubling. I’ll look in to it.” I fell for it but heard him say the same thing so many times with no action that I realized it was only empty talk. He was a complete phony but I suppose if you can befriend a man who left a young woman to drown to save himself and his career you’ll find anything is acceptable. If I were to bet I’d lay my money on the proposition that Hatch was a nasty piece of work with his own hidden skeletons. Or maybe he was just weak. He exemplified the sort of useless feckless person who needs to be gotten rid of in Washington.
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Reply 13 - Posted by: RussZilla 4/29/2022 7:32:46 PM (No. 1141945)
I really thought I was the only one disliked that old jerk Hatch.
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Reply 14 - Posted by: pensom2 4/30/2022 2:15:08 AM (No. 1142154)
I remember when Orrin was first elected to the Senate. He was considered an extreme right-winger. He "evolved" over time. Hate to say it, but whatever anyone says about Hatch can frankly be said about virtually every other senator who has been back there more than two six-year terms. Hatch was in no way unique. In fact, I'm confident there are many who are worse than Hatch, particularly on the other side of that aisle everyone talks about. These people are given so much money by lobbyists and others currying favor, it's almost impossible to beat them in any election. Terms limits is the only solution.
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