Words of Truth - From Orrin Hatch?!?

I have never been a fan of the legislators from our state, with few exceptions. Least of all these are the incumbents that have been in there for decades, and as conservatives are well known for attempting to maintain the status quo (their version of it, anyway), rarely say anything surprising. Not the best apotheosis for this is the eminent Senator Orrin Hatch; he writes, he sings, he reaches across party lines, he keeps getting elected! A surprisingly moderate conservative from Utah, he has supported stem-cell research, higher education for illegal immigrants, and pushed legislation that would let anyone who has been a citizen of the US for 20 years to run for the presidency and vice presidency. However, he hates files sharing and the Internet and his son is lobbyist whom he seems to have helped out quite a bit.
But recently, at a town hall meeting in American Fork, UT, he enraged his constituents by speaking the truth about the tea Party movement, and what it's doing to the Republican party. "If we fractionalize the Republican Party, we are going to see more liberals elected," Hatch said, with a definitive partisan spin on the message, basically telling the crowd that this movement is breaking up the GOP. And, surprise, they didn't like to hear it, as many who spend their lives in a fictional world are apt to when they hear the truth.
It's not a party based on a rational, objective look at politics and the Obama Administration's policies; it's based on a reactionary, uninformed group of people being led by disaffected politicians and FoxNews, the largest purveyor of hate, misinformation and fear ever seen. When well established politicians like Hatch are shying away from something that gathers large group of easily led conservatives, you know something is wrong.