Tribune Endorsed Hatch (Score 0)

The Salt Lake Tribune http://www.sltrib.com/opinion/ci_4567868/ has endorsed Orrin Hatch. The really sad part about their endorsement of Hatch is that even in the way they phrase the endorsement, they are encouraging their readers to vote for him only because of a power play. They basically even say that Hatch is not one of the "good guys".

Suffice to say that a complete list of Hatch's negatives might exceed this space, especially if it included some of Hatch's more outrageous statements on public policy issues such as citing author Michael Crichton as an authority on the science of global warming, or suggesting that House Republicans' failure to act on former Rep. Mark Foley's sexually explicit e-mails to congressional pages may be attributable to their desire not to appear homophobic.

Hatch is all about big business and helping the multi-level marketing interests in Utah, and his record has done basically NOTHING for the individual. Besides which, Hatch isn't intelligent enough to be making decisions for our nation in this day and age. Even if I didn't strongly support Pete Ashdown because he is technologically savvy, anyone but Hatch would make a better Senator. Anyone. I'm just glad it's Pete running against him!