Posted on 12/09/2014 8:29:59 AM PST by W.
Anyone who followed this year's Senate race in Kansas — the one longtime GOP incumbent Pat Roberts appeared to be losing to Greg Orman, the businessman running as an independent — knows Orman and his supporters vigorously denied Roberts' allegation that Orman was really a Democrat running to further the Democratic agenda.
"By word, by deed, by campaign contribution, this man is a liberal Democrat," Roberts said of Orman during a debate in October. "A vote for Greg Orman is a vote to extend the Barack Obama/Harry Reid agenda."
Not true, Orman answered. "The senator can say that over and over again, but it doesn't make it so."
What voters did not know was at that very moment, Democratic Majority Leader Harry Reid's political action committee, the Senate Majority PAC, was preparing to pour more than a million dollars into the pro-Orman effort in Kansas. Reid was just waiting to make sure the donations came so late in the campaign that the public wouldn't find out about them until after the election.
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When ole BJ stumbled into the WH with the fabled “Clintonian plurality” the Dems were smart enough to continue the plan.
You would think that Boehner, McConnell, Rove, Krauthammer and all the rest of the TEA Party haters would have paid homage to the TEA Party in Louisiana that turned out to vote for Cassidy, even though they really wanted their candidate, Col. Mannes, to win. But no. These spoiled elitists just take it for granted that conservatives will always cave. They may be wrong in 2016 if they stick the party with another moderate.
“The proudest thing I can claim is that I am from Abilene.”
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Homecoming Speech, Abilene, Kansas, 6/22/45
http://www.eisenhower.archives.gov/all_about_ike/quotes.html
Ike is rolling over in his grave seeing what his home state and Country have become in the forty-five years since his death.
Although I was a youngster during President Eisenhower’s terms in office I remember the good times and life was good.
His farewell speech was spot on about his fears for the future and increasing government control over the citizens.
President Dwight Eisenhower’s Farewell Address to the nation January 17, 1961
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWiIYW_fBfY
I have voted in every presidential election since eligible in my youth but I will sit this one out - flame away - if we get stuck with a Mitt, Jeb, Christy, Rubio, moderate. I’ve had it.
The left put out an all out assault on the Kansas Senate race here thinking this was their path to keeping the Senate and keep Dingy Harry in charge.
From the LSM and the local medias (they ignored negative stories about Orman), to lots of outside money coming in (including from the Soros family), to the DUmmies and KOSmunists that showed up on local message boards and comment sections to try to influence the race (one local news station quoted Daily KOS in one of their articles about one of the races as well as they were involved in a grass roots effort here), to deceptive polls showing Orman leading the race up to election day (Orman lost by ten points), to liberal judges making rulings and ignoring Kansas law to give 0rman an advantage, now we find out Dingy Harry himself sent contributions to 0rman after the 0rman denials he had nothing to do with the democrats, the left threw everything at the Kansas Senate race but the kitchen sink.
I’m so glad they lost even after so much resources spent. The power of prayer still works too.
CGato
I didn’t vote in the midterms, and if the GOP runs another moderate, I, too, will sit out the 2016 elections.
Lately I’ve been quoting that a lot lately, myself.
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