Sen. Bob Bennett ousted by GOP delegates

"Throw the bums out!" should mean something. Usually it means "Throw your bums out, but we'll keep our incumbents."

Utah delegates released Bennett from the Senate after 18 years of service. For me, it always came back to his pledge he made in 1992, when he said he'd only serve two terms. He served three. Eighteen years. Plenty of time to get done what you want to get done.

And at this point, I'd recommend to Sen. Orrin Hatch to consider retiring in 2012. Jason Chaffetz, freshman Congressman from Utah's 3rd, will probably run for that seat then, and I'd wager the anti-incumbent sentiment will still be high.

Talk radio doesn't help

If I want to explain to my son why I'm conservative, talk radio does me no favors. What I consider conservative and what, say, Michael Savage or Mark Levin might call conservative might be two different things, depending on the topic, but even their approach just doesn't help.

The other day Mancow was on, and he referred to Obama as "our Muslim president." Doesn't exactly win over the youth of America. I'm disappointed to learn that 860AM has dropped Joe Scarborough and expanded Mancow to three hours. (Unless Joe's dropping his radio show...?)

Rush Limbaugh's gone overboard since Obama took over. Sean Hannity's always been a predictable talking-points partisan. Michael Savage is who he is. I can't stand two minutes of Neil Boortz. Bob Lonsberry's voice is like chewing tinfoil. Glenn Beck's radio show is more playful than his TV show, but you never know when you're going to wade into "conspiracy theory" waters. Jerry Doyle... meh. Michael Medved's probably the most thoughtful one on around here. The last couple times I tried Mark Levin he literally yelled his monologue. Dennis Miller never takes himself too seriously. Laura Ingraham can be okay sometimes. I liked Joe Scarborough, but he's gone. I like the Washington Times opinionated newscast.