Club for Growth targets Sen. Bennett (R)

[ccharles000]

The Club for Growth took a significant step Tuesday toward opposing Sen. Bob Bennett (R-Utah) in the GOP Senate primary.

The Club announced an advertising and letter-writing campaign targeted at the 3,200 likely delegates to the state Republican convention. Those delegates will have a big say in who the party’s 2010 Senate nominee is.

It is sending a letter to each of the delegates and running an ad hitting Bennett for advocating “government-run healthcare” — a reference to the healthcare bill he authored with Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.).

The ad says Bennett is teaming with “liberal Democrats” and features a mock Bennett website detailing the costs of the plan.

The ad says the proposal “pushes you out of your current plan,” and that will result in job-killing tax increases.

The Club says the effort is part of a $1.2 million campaign battling the current healthcare proposals. But the effort focuses on the Bennett-Wyden proposal, and the targets of the letters are notable because of the electoral situation Bennett finds himself in.

Bennett is facing a primary challenge from state Attorney General Mark Shurtleff (R). Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) has also said he might challenge the longtime senator in the primary.

http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/club-for-growth-puts-sen.-bennett--in-crosshairs-2009-08-25.html

[mustardman]

1. Yea, let's get even more radical reich wingers winning primaries! Where do I send the check?

[Hippo_Tron]

2. Problem is it's Utah, the radical reich winger will win the General Election

[Drunken Irishman]

3. Yes. Just say no to that right-wing psychopath Shurtleff.

[mustardman]

4. I'm sure even Utah has a breaking point.

[Hippo_Tron]

7. If Hitler ran as a Republican there I would give the Democrat 60/40 odds

Too many Mormons who only care that the Republicans are more pro-life and hate gays more.

[grantcart]

5. Ah my distant cousin - how fun it is to see the crazy eat the crazy

[depakid]

6. 'bout time to send the IRS after some of the Club for Growth types

You know tons of them are dirty.

And it pays to put the fear of God into them....