The Tim Bridgewater Attack On Jim DeMint Continues

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Posted by Erick Erickson (Profile)

Monday, June 21st at 10:16AM EDT
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Tim Bridgewater’s supporters have set up and are pushing a website called the “Jim DeMint Takeover.”

It contains just one post.

It is a YouTube of Mike Lee, who is asked, “If you are elected as the new Senator from Utah, who will be your mentor and why?”

Mike Lee’s response?

“My mentor in the senate and among those who are still in the world of the living will be Jim Demint in whose endorsement I am pleased to have and who hails from South Carolina and who is an advocate of constitutionally limited government, and as I say the two of us together will build a coalition that will one day control the US Senate, to limit the size, scope, reach and cost of the federal government.”

And the Bridgewater people hold this in contempt? What is wrong with these people?

Oh yeah. They think Jim DeMint is going to use Mike Lee to allow nuclear waste from South Carolina to be deposited in Utah. Of course even not so smart people know we’re sticking it in Nevada if Harry Reid gets re-elected.

Tim Bridgewater continues to flat out lie about Jim DeMint to avoid having to talk about his own record.

Support Mike Lee and defend Jim DeMint.


http://www.redstate.com/erick/2010/06/21/the-tim-bridgewater-attack-on-jim-demint-continues/

[itshappening]

how is Mike Lee doing, is there any polling?

As I understand it he is in the lead.

[bobbyw24]

(SALT LAKE CITY) — Utah tea party supporters united in May to achieve one goal: defeat three-term U.S. Sen. Bob Bennett at the Republican state convention.

They succeeded in that, but settling on his successor has proved harder. (See pictures of 60 years of election night drama.)

Illustrating how fractured the tea party movement is in Utah, one of the founders of the state's tea party movement, David Kirkham, endorsed front-runner Tim Bridgewater on Monday. Attorney Mike Lee, 38, had already picked up the support of the California-based Tea Party Express, which is weighing in on primary races nationwide.

A lot is at stake. Whoever wins Tuesday's GOP nomination should cruise to victory in November in heavily Republican Utah. A Democrat hasn't won a U.S. Senate race here since 1970.

The marquee race Tuesday is the runoff for the Republican gubernatorial nomination in South Carolina. State lawmaker Nikki Haley has shrugged off accusations of infidelity and questions about her religion — an Indian-American, she was raised a Sikh and baptized a Methodist — to emerge as the odds-on favorite to become the state's first female governor. Haley almost won the state primary outright with 49% of the vote, but because she didn't get more than half she faces a runoff against Rep. Gresham Barrett.

Six-term Rep. Bob Inglis is struggling to hold onto his House seat in a GOP runoff against prosecutor Trey Gowdy. Elsewhere in the state, Tim Scott, a black state lawmaker, faces Paul Thurmond, the son of former segregationist Strom Thurmond, for the Republican nomination in a race that could provide a measure of both racial progress in the South and the GOP's ability to diversify.

In North Carolina, Secretary of State Elaine Marshall is locked in a close runoff against Cal Cunningham, the favorite of Democratic Party leaders in Washington, for the party nod for the Senate. The winner faces an uphill race against Republican Sen. Richard Burr.

Mississippi also has a runoff for the Republican nominee in a House race.

Back in Utah, Bridgewater and Lee advanced to the primary on promises to rein in federal spending. But without an incumbent in the race and little to distinguish their platforms, tea party supporters have struggled to coalesce around a single candidate.

"We were very happy when the results of the nominating convention came out, but the purpose of all our involvement isn't necessarily to knock out the worst people, but to put in the best people who represent our values — and that's Mike Lee," said Bryan Shroyer, political director for the Tea Party Express.

Federal Election Commission reports show the group has spent $30,000 supporting Lee since Thursday, mostly on radio advertisements.

At the convention, Bridgewater won 57% of the vote — 3% more and he would have won the nomination outright. A Brigham Young University survey of convention delegates showed that 85% of delegates had a favorable impression of the tea party movement and 42% of delegates considered themselves active supporters of the movement.

Read more: http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1998560,00.html#ixzz0raOmbu00