Roberts, your problem was not that you weren’t conservative. It was that
A) You are too quiet and not forceful enough. You don’t have to be young to throw bombs. Just look at Sessions.
B) You fell out of touch with your constituents and didn’t spend enough time in the state.
I hope you have genuinely taken to heart what the voters told you on Tuesday. You will be retiring soon likely, and it would be good to close on a high note, letting Kansans see a bold Pat Roberts who cares about the things that Kansans value.
Actually Roberts does quite a bit of talking to people here. I get townhall calls all the time and listen to people ask questions of him. Of course you get the ones trying to throw him off track by telling him he needs to be bipartisan. Hopefully he has realized those people are just trying to get him to betray his promises to voters and willingly surrender ground to the liberals.
He is a polite person of moderate tone. That is a good thing. He does need to be bolder but that does not mean he must create a whole new personality for himself. He is smart and articulate and can get it done within his own personality style.