bob bennet was their victim. normal republicans, conservative republicans that seem mainstream or moderate, you are going to be replaced. the tea party is taking over. in fact, the next senator in line for that treatment is the other utah republican senator, oren hatch. oren hatch, is, perhaps, a very conservative senator. perhaps not conservative enough. jason of utah has been making noise all year long that he was going to go after hatch next. he was going to primary hatch from the right, take that deep red republican utah senate seat and make it even deeper red. this week he finally made his big announcement about challenging hatch and he's not doing it. now, jason chaffetz hasn't been hinting, it's been telling everybody he's likely to do this, going to challenge oren hatch, but he's decided not to run against him. after hatch, the other senator told to watch out, was olympia snow of maine. the warning was she's going to be replaced by a hard right tea party challenger. well, there are some activist guys runn

i have to say, don't feel too bad for bob bennet, he worked for a d.c. firm, i'm sure he's doing fine. bob bennett getting kicked out of the senate like that was seen as a shot across the bow. any republican with any hint of moderation -- actually, no, bob was not an conservative. he had an american conservative rating of 84% but that wasn't enough for tea party. bob bennett was their victim. their mess alittle to the country. normal republicans, conservative republicans that seem mainstream or moderate, you are going to be replaced. the tea party is taking over. in fact, the next senator in line for that treatment is the other utah republican senator, orrin hatch, with a 90% rating from conservative union. orrin hatch is, in fact, a very conservative senator but perhaps not conservative enough. tea party supporting extremely conservative republican congressman jason chaffetz of utah has been making noise all year long that he was going to go after orrin hatch next. he was going to primary hatch from the right, take that deep red republican utah senate se

in utah, incumbent senator bob bennet was not renominated by his republican state party. they picked a tea party guy instead named mike lee. he was retired and mike lee did go on to win that seat. >> you're robert bennet, you are one of the most conservative members of the united states senate. how is it that you get tossed out by this tea party movement or whatever it was in utah, how does that happen? >> they don't really care. you can win an election screaming in anger, but you cannot hold and govern for a significant period of time on screaming and anger. >> even while hurtling through the subway system, bob bennett upset and disappointed when his own party gave him the boot last year. i have to say, don't feel too bad for bob bennett, i'm sure he's going fine. bob bennett getting kicked out of the senate like that was seen as a shot across the bowel, any republican with a hint of moderation, actually, no, bob bennett had an american conservative rating of 84%, but that wasn't enough for the tea party. bob bennett was their victim. normal republicans, conservative rep