Posted on 07/17/2014 9:01:22 AM PDT by cotton1706
With less than a month until Kansas Republicans hold their primary, two national tea party groups are aiming to recover from their loss in Mississippi by defeating incumbent Sen. Pat Roberts.
Both the Senate Conservatives Fund and the Atlanta-based Tea Party Patriots Citizen Fund announced their endorsements of radiologist Milton Wolf.
"Dr. Milton Wolf embodies the values of personal freedom, economic freedom and a debt-free future," TPPCF Chairman Jenny Beth Martin said in a post on their website. "He's the right conservative candidate at the right time to tell the Establishment, ‘The Obama agenda stops here, and it stops now.'"
Not all tea party supporters are taking sides in the August 5 primary contest. The Lawrence Journal-World noted the Club for Growth, which also supports most Tea Party candidates, has declined to offer an endorsement in the Kansas primary.
According to the latest SurveyUSA survey, Roberts holds a 56-23 lead over Wolf. The June poll was of likely voters.
Wolf's campaign has focused its attacks on the fact that Roberts has been in Washington since 1981 when he won election to the House. Roberts has served in the Senate since 1997.
Roberts has offered an unintentional assist to Wolf's efforts to paint him as a politician beholden to interests in Washington, rather than the concerns of average Kansans.
In a February interview with the New York Times, Roberts admitted that he did not own a home in his home state and that the house he lists as his voting address is actually owned by two longtime supporters and donors.
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“...two national tea party groups are aiming to recover from their loss in Mississippi”
The Tea Party candidate won in Mississippi, twice. The GOP got enough illegal votes to drag a zombie across the finish line. Newsmax ought to know better.
The country is on the edge of an abyss.
How can voters in Kansas say the prefer Roberts over Wolf, 56% to 23%?
Roberts is a senile RINO.
I hope the poll is wrong.
Unless we elect some good men and women to office, we are doomed.
Local Tea Party folk don't endorse Wolf and for very good reasons - we know him or have gotten to know him and don't like what we have learned.
If relplacing Roberts is in Kansan's best interest, we'll decide to do it .....and we'll also pick the candidate we want to be our candidate, not a national group and certainly not a man who decided HE was the candidate we need.
Realizing he's not winning, Wolf has now moved on and set his sights on Jerry Moran's seat, as he has realized he's going nowhere against Roberts.
I'll not bet money against Moran but if he goes, it won't be with Wolf!
Wolf needs to move elsewhere, where he has no local reputation ahead of him as he does in Kansas!
Let these national groups would do well to contact Kansans and ask us who we think would be a good candidate to replace our Senators or House Members, before steaming ahead with someone none of us want.
I don't need Erik Erickson telling me who my next Senator will be.
That's the same kind if back room deal making that we resented ino the "bad old days of Boss Hogg!"
Whether or not we replace Roberts, we don't want Wolf!
I’m voting against Pat Roberts in the primary, not for Wolf. When Roberts wins, I’ll just hold my vote. I will never vote for a Rat, and I’ll never vote for the GOPe again.
I, for one, am not and I believe there are some other conservatives represented here.
We're anti-Wolf, not anti-GOPe.
There are some self-styled candidates that care more about getting elected than they care about conservative issues.
Don't give up, just help look for a genuine, decent conservative candidate!
Wolf's just not that guy!
“Wolf’s campaign has focused its attacks on the fact that Roberts has been in Washington since 1981 when he won election to the House.”
If THAT is the biggest idea Wolf’s supporters are pushing and if that is his biggest focus, I doubt he will improve his standing with the voters enough to defeat Roberts, no matter how much $upport Wolf gets.
Such an approach does not emphasize what is/might be wrong with Robert’s positions and because it does not do that it - “he’s been there too long”, will not move even Conservative voters enough.
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