SO ORRIN HATCH IS THE LONGEST-SERVING REPUBLICAN
SENATOR THERE IS IN CONGRESS.
HE HAS BEEN THERE FOR 42 YEARS.
HE IS A POWERFUL HEAD OF THE FINANCE COMMITTEE IN THE SENATE.
HE HAD ALWAYS WANTED TO DO TAX CUTS FOR THE RICH AND HE
FINALLY GOT IT AND HE WAS ELATED BY THAT AND THEN THE SALT
LAKE CITY TRIBUNE NAMED HIM THE CUTE TELLING OF THE YEAR.
HE PROBABLY TWEETED THAT OUT.
HE UNFORTUNATELY DID NOT READ THE ARTICLE AS HE APPARENTLY
DOES NOT READ THE BILLS SO WHEN HE READ THE ARTICLE HE FOUND
OUT, THEY ACTUALLY WERE SAYING HE IS THE MOST IMPORTANT GUY IN
UTAH, BUT THEY ALSO SAID HE HAD UTTER LACK OF INTEGRITY AND
AN UNQUENCHABLE THIRST FOR POWER.
SHOULD NOT HAVE TWEETED THAT OUT.
IT IS OBVIOUS THAT SOME FOLKS IN UTAH ARE TRYING TO PUSH HIM OUT.
THEY'VE HAD ENOUGH.
I ARGUED AT THE TIME THAT IT WAS BECAUSE MITT ROMNEY WANTED TO
TAKE HIS PLACE AND HE HAS A LOT OF VERY POWERFUL ALLIES IN UTAH.
TODAY ORRIN HATCH CAME OUT WITH A STATEMENT.
LET'S BEGIN TO WATCH.
MY FELLOW UTAHANS, FOR OVER 40
YEARS I'VE HAD THE GREAT HONOR OF SERVING AS YOUR SENATOR.
AS MANY OF YOU KNOW, I CAME UP DURING THE GREAT DEPRESSION
LIVING IN A RAMSHACKLE HOUSE BILL WITH THE RE-CYCLED
LUMBER FROM THE LOCALS SCRAPYARD.
MY PARENTS GAVE US EVERYTHING THEY HAD BEEN IN THE EYES
OF THE WORLD WE STILL DIDN'T HAVE MUCH.
ONLY IN A NATION LIKE OURS COULD SOMEONE LIKE ME, THE SCRAPPY SON
OF A SIMPLE CARPENTER, GIRL TO BECOME A UNITED STATES SENATOR.
HE IS SCRAP ON THE MIND.
HE IS SCRAPPY FROM THE SCRAPYARD.
THEY PUT TOGETHER SCRAPS.
REMEMBER, I WAS POOR ONCE BEFORE I BECAME CORRUPT AND GOT ALL THE
MONEY FROM MY LOBBYIST FAMILY MEMBERS, FROM ALL THE CORPORATE
DONORS THAT WE HAVE THAT WE JUST GAVE THE GIANT TAX-CUT FOR.
REMEMBER, YOU TOO CAN GROW TO BE SCRAPPY AND TAKE GIANT
CHECKS FROM CORPORATE DONORS.
ONLY IN AMERICA.
IS HE GOING TO THE SCRAPYARD?
LET'S WATCH.
WHEN THE PRESIDENT VISITED UTAH LAST MONTH, HE SAID I
WAS A FIGHTER.
I HAVE ALWAYS BEEN A FIGHTER.
I WAS AN AMATEUR BOXER IN MY YOUTH AND I HAVE BROUGHT
THAT FIGHTING SPIRIT WITH ME TO WASHINGTON BUT EVERY
GOOD FIGHTER KNOWS WHEN TO HANG UP THE GLOVES AND FOR ME,
THAT TIME IS SOON APPROACHING.
AFTER MUCH PRAYER AND DISCUSSION WITH FAMILY AND
FRIENDS I HAVE DECIDED TO RETIRE AT THE END OF THIS TERM.
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, WE GOT HIM.
DOWN GOES HATCH.
FINALLY, AFTER 42 YEARS.
DID WE GET HIM?
NO, MITT ROMNEY GOT HIM.
I LOVE THIS COY QUOTE THAT HIS SPOKESPERSON GAVE BEFORE
HATCH DECIDED TO STEP DOWN.
THEY SAID:
YOU THINK SO?
OF COURSE HE IS GOING TO RUN FOR THE SEAT.
THEY SAY HE WILL PROBABLY WIN IT EASILY AND OF COURSE
TWITTER WAS ALL OVER THIS.
THIS ONE WAS FUN.
CREDIT TO COLIN CAMPBELL THERE.
THAT IS ROMNEY ON HIS HORSE.
REMEMBER THEY WERE BRAGGING ABOUT HOW MITT ROMNEY WAS DOWN
TO EARTH AND HIS WIFE ALSO DOES DOWN-TO-EARTH THINGS LIKE
MAKE HORSES DANCE?
I AM NOT KIDDING, THAT IS REAL.
THEY'RE LIKE WHAT, DOESN'T EVERYBODY MAKE THEIR HORSES
DANCE?
THEY ARE GOING TO BE DANCING OVER TO UTAH.
OF COURSE ROMNEY IS MORMON.
HE HELPED UTAH WITH THE OLYMPICS BACK IN THE DAY, THEN BECAME
THE GOVERNOR OF MASSACHUSETTS AND NOW PROBABLY HEADED
BACK OUT TO UTAH TO BECOME A SENATOR.
I WILL GIVE ROMNEY THIS, THIS GUY IS PERSISTENT.
HE WILL NOT LET THIS BONE GO.
HE WANTS TO GET INTO GOVERNMENT AND HE WANTS TO COME BACK
AND IF YOU THINK YOU WON'T RUN FOR PRESIDENT AGAIN, YOU DO
NOT KNOW MITT ROMNEY.
THIS IS HIS WAY OF SNEAKING BACK IN.
MAN HE SHIVED
ORRIN HATCH HARD.
NOTHING I LIKE BETTER THAN REPUBLICAN ON REPUBLICAN CRIME.
REMEMBER, ROMNEY WAS ALSO TOUGH ON TRUMP AND SAID A LOT OF
THINGS ABOUT HOW DURING THE
CAMPAIGN, HOW HE WAS CRASS AND HE ALSO SAID THAT ROY MOORE
WAS IMMORAL.
HE TOOK A TOUGH STANCE UNTIL DONALD TRUMP SAID HE MIGHT
BECOME SECRETARY OF STATE AND THEN ALL THE SUDDEN YOU'VE GOT A
DIFFERENT MITT ROMNEY.
SO IF YOU THINK HE IS GOING TO BE A TOUGH GUY IN THE SENATE,
DON'T
FORGET THAT THIS MIGHT BE THE MITT ROMNEY WE WIND UP GETTING.
THAT IS SO SAD.
THAT IS ONE OF THE SADDEST PICTURES I HAVE EVER SEEN.
THAT IS WHEN DONALD TRUMP WAS SAYING, SURE, MAYBE I WILL
MAKE YOU SECRETARY OF STATE.
OF COURSE I'M GOING TO GIVE IT TO THE CEO OF EXXON MOBIL
THAT HAS A DEAL WITH RUSSIA.
COME ON REEK, I WILL GIVE YOU A LITTLE BIT OF POWER.
THAT IS WHO ROMNEY IS.