Posted on 04/23/2016 9:07:27 AM PDT by cotton1706
WASHINGTON — Sen. Jerry Moran warned Thursday a primary challenge from Rep. Mike Pompeo would invite Democrats to enter the race and hamper his ability to help elect Republicans elsewhere.
The GOP senator said a primary challenge would draw national resources to his defense that could instead go to defeating Democrats in other parts of the country. The consequences of a challenge extend beyond the Senate seat itself, he said.
The comments, made in an interview with The Topeka Capital-Journal, serve as a caution to Pompeo, who represents Wichita and south-central Kansas and is openly considering running against Moran.
“From a Kansas perspective, if there is a primary race for the Republican nomination, it will encourage Democrats to seek a Democrat nominee in the November election. So the circumstance exists with a primary occurring that Democrats get interested in Kansas, and I’ve already heard of that here in DC,” Moran said.
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"we should never be challenged once in office! Any attempt to hold us accountable would be counter-productive."
Quite the convenient argument.
Sen. Jerry Moran warned Thursday a primary challenge from Rep. Mike Pompeo would invite Democrats to enter the race and hamper his ability to help elect Republicans elsewhere.
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Do we need more Republicans who refuse to oppose the Democrats?
Spineless simpering sycophants who go along with the invasion of our country by fraudulently documented foreigners thus providing the Democrats with a permanent majority eventually are not what we need.
The only thing worse than Republican oligarchs is Democrat oligarchs, which is all you’re going to get with this war on The Establishment, as your war has no ideological grounding.
I’ll take a conservative oligarch over Clinton/Sanders or any other lib on any day.
Moran has been in elective office for 28 years continuously, including 20 in D.C. It’s time for some new blood.
Right now.
Jedi.
I agree that the GOP has shown itself to be actively thwarting te desires of their voters, but two ineligible Cubans is not the foundation upon which to build a new constitutionalist party.
Rubio does not even want to conserve the rule of law.
The more you dwell on it...the more light will guide you to the correct conclusion.
Nothing to worry about as far as “ineligible” when the top of the ticket is one of the smartest lawyers in our country.
You know, the one who went before the Supreme Court on our behalf....and won.
Imagine the endless possibilities and the heads of the establishment exploding when faced with a grass roots conservative party in full motivational roar?
Awesome.
Jedi.
If he is one of the smartest lawyers in the country, he knows he is not eligible, at least not pre-Obama days.
He is exploiting the same “no controlling legal authority” loophole that Obama did.
He could have done the country a greater service explaining why he was NOT running for President and why Obama was not eligible.
It’s all about Ted’s ambition.
Has been since high school.
The rest is an act to get him there.
If Rubio had gotten his way and given the Democrats 30 million new voters conservatives would never win another election.
Think it out more.
First we have to save the country.
Only a third of the nation was for the revolution at the time.
Far more are for one now.
Yeah, “crouch down and lick the hand which feeds you, and may your chains set lightly upon you.”
MY stalwart Senator, Jerry Moron, has been nothing but a party hack since he assumed office. Keeps his head down between elections, doing nothing but trying to rid the planet of tea party conservatives and other ne’er do wells.
Has never been of any real use as a legislator and really should just go home to his west Kansas snake ranch bed and breakfast. A rattler if I ever seen a rattler.
Get lost Moron.
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