Republican establishment may be preparing to primary Mike Lee in 2016

  According to this story the establishment ruling class Republicans may be considering running a primary opponent against Mike Lee in 2016 because he has been unwilling to fall in line with the GOP Overlords.

  There is already talk of who this replacement might be:

The Post reported that a potential Republican establishment challenger to Lee has already surfaced in “Thomas Wright, who stepped down this spring as chairman of the Utah Republican Party.” According to the Post, “Wright said he is considering running against Lee in 2016 because he has grown ‘exasperated’ with the junior senator’s governing style.

  I am sure there is some animosity towards Mike Lee because he primaried the establishment Republican candidate in 2010 but this goes much deeper than that. The ruling class elitists in the Republican party do not like him because they have not been able to mold him and make him conform.

   For a great look at the mindset of the establishment ruling class Republicans we need look no further than what Orrin Hatch said about Tea Party Republicans:

“[i]t’s time now… for Lee and other tea party Republicans to be ‘rehabilitated’ for refusing to pass a budget bill needed to keep the government operating unless money for the act better known as Obamacare was removed.”

  They need to be rehabilitated as if they have some disease, crippling injury, or mental disorder simply because they are not willing to go along to get along. This is precisely what is wrong in Washington today, or more accurately, part of what is wrong–a big part.

  It is still way too early to be thinking about 2016 for anything can still happen between now and then but this mindset is not going away and if this comes to be this will not the first time the establishment ruling class Republicans looked to punish their own for what they feel is their malfeasance.

  Almost one year ago John Boehner stripped four conservatives of their key committee positions as punishment for not falling in line with the establishment and then at a meeting the next day reminded others that it could also happen to them if they did not acquiesce to his will. (I wish he had the balls to fight Barack Obama this fiercely!)

  But I would be remiss here if I did not remind everyone what the establishment Republicans did to Allen West: they redistricted him into a more liberal district where he eventually lost. Do not think this was unintentional for he was also bucking the establishment and so he was dealt with. He went from a likely win to a close defeat and it was orchestrated by the establishment and, rumor has it, Mitt Romney.