Kansas GOP Sen. Roberts survives Tea Party-backed primary challenge, adds to incumbent victories

fox news ^ | 8-6-2014

[Citizen Zed]

“We cannot support a fractured party. The stakes are too high,” Roberts told the crowd. Republicans need to gain six seats in November to take control of the Senate.

“We must be united,” Roberts continued. “We need to take another hill in the fight to stop the liberal agenda. Help us replace the Obama way with the Kansas way.”

Wolf, a radiologist and distant cousin of President Obama, cut into Roberts’ 20-point polling lead in the closing weeks of the race, but was also damaged by political attacks, primarily TV ads about him posting gruesome X-ray images on Facebook in 2010.

[Citizen Zed]

We're not in Kansas anymore?

[LT Brass Bancroft]

Incumbency counts for a lot, I think. Wolf has a thin political resume for one seeking a seat in the U.S. Senate. I voted for him, but I guess most of us just wanted the guy we’ve known all these years. I hope Wolf runs for a less ambitious office to build his resume next time around.

[Bullish]

Ignorance is a very hard thing to fight indeed.

[LS]

Yep. I keep saying this. People like Herman Cain come out of the box running for the senate. Win a race or two and get exposed to the gunfire. It certainly would have exposed Cain’s woman problem and the x-Ray stuff from Milton-—not to mention growing the name recognition.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

The problem is that you have these older, die-hard Republican voters who would vote for Bill Clinton if he ran as a Republican.

These people truly believe that the Tea Party is comprised of wackos and racists.

[2001convSVT]

Right you are and because of this ignorant mind set we will never be able to pull out of a BIG government take over. It is so sad that the very people these older die-hard Republicans voting for to protect their Liberty, are the very ones taking it away.

[Kenny]

Incumbency counts for a lot

Damn near impossible to beat a sitting Senator. McDaniel did it but was cheated out of his victory.

[Sam Gamgee]

He said we need a majority in the senate to stop the liberal agenda...of the Democrats? What about the liberal agenda of Republicans. Seems to me the last time there was a majority the GOP did diddly squat to reduce spending. They are turning into a Heath style opposition like they had in the UK, where the Conservatives functioned as a little pause only in the expansion of the state.