Sen. Bob Bennett (R-UT) has some tough words for his party. Bennett became the first incumbent senator to lose his re-election bid in 2010 after his defeat at Utah’s Republican convention in May. Speaking yesterday to The Ripon Society, Bennett predicted Republicans will win the House — and maybe even the Senate — this fall, but he expressed doubts that the party has the ideas needed to govern successfully.“As I look out at the political landscape now, I find plenty of slogans on the Republican side, but not very many ideas,” Bennett said. “And indeed, if you raise specific ideas and solutions, as I tried to do on health care with Ron Wyden, you are attacked with the same vigor as we’ve seen in American politics all the way back to the arguments over slavery and polygamy. You are attacked as being a wimp, insufficiently pure, and unreliable.”
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