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Sarah Palin To Campaign for Pat Roberts in Kansas Amid Lingering Grassroots Anger
Breitbart's Big Government ^ | September 23, 2014 | Michael Patrick Leahy

Posted on 09/24/2014 12:42:53 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Sarah Palin will campaign for incumbent Republican Senator Pat Roberts (R-KS) in Independence, Kansas on Thursday. Roberts is in need of help from the Tea Party favorite, as recent polls show he trails independent Greg Orman in this fall's general election.

Last week, the Kansas State Supreme Court granted Democratic nominee Chad Taylor's request to be removed from the ballot, setting up a two-person race between Roberts and Orman.

Roberts defeated Tea Party challenger Dr. Milton Wolf in the August 5 Republican primary by a relatively narrow margin of 47% to 41% in a bitterly personal contest that left many grassroots activists in Kansas disgusted with the heavy handed tactics of the Republican establishment. Roberts was hurt by Wolf's attacks on his residency claims, a weakness that may have sparked the strange turn of events that led to the withdrawal of Taylor and the rise in the polls of Orman.

The question is how far Palin's appearance in Kansas on behalf of Roberts will go to bring the embittered grassroots back to the Republican side....

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: Kansas; Campaign News; Parties; U.S. Senate
KEYWORDS: 2014; democrats; gop; kansas; palin; patroberts; republicans; teaparty
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To: Fledermaus
“Does that mean that you prefer the Democrats and Mr. Reid?”

That is a legitimate question. Man up and answer it.

41 posted on 09/24/2014 1:23:27 PM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
What exactly is the problem FReepers are having with Roberts? Look at his background at http://ontheissues.org/Senate/Pat_Roberts.htm. Where is he showing up as "impure?" All I see are solid anti-abortion, pro-gun, anti-illegal alien, and other strong conservative stances. WTH am I missing here?


42 posted on 09/24/2014 1:23:59 PM PDT by ScottinVA (If it doesn't include border security, it isn't "reform." It's called "amnesty.")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Oh no!

My beloved Sarah would be booted from FR!


43 posted on 09/24/2014 1:24:06 PM PDT by NoLibZone (The bad news: Hillary Clinton will be the next President. The Good news: Our principles are intact.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Sarah can negotiate from a position of strength with this.

The Senate Majority and Minority Leaders are two United States Senators who are elected by the party caucuses that hold the majority and the minority respectively.

If the GOPe wants prime TEA Party support for this general election, the prime TEA Party endorsers can very rightly demand a very public announcement from their crippled endorsee(s) that said endorsee(s) WILL NOT SUPPORT MITCH MCCONNELL FOR SENATE MAJORITY or MINORITY LEADER (whichever side the GOP happens to fall on).

It is legal. It is highly ethical. It is politic. It isn't binding, but then no one really expects US Senate scum to be honorable.

44 posted on 09/24/2014 1:24:12 PM PDT by meadsjn
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To: txhurl; C. Edmund Wright
Apparently Sarah sees this possibility.. and gets to tell the GOPe: YOU LOSE. First by having to call me in, second by a real conservative replacing your boy.

Could be. Still, I'm scratching my head over this endorsement. Wonder what think the other FReepers who are already read-in to this move...?
45 posted on 09/24/2014 1:24:15 PM PDT by Resettozero
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To: Uncle Miltie

it is very unlikely he will run again. it is better to have a republican conservative replacing a republican rino than an democrat incumbent.


46 posted on 09/24/2014 1:24:46 PM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Because she gets it and you don’t.


47 posted on 09/24/2014 1:25:03 PM PDT by Dave W
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To: NoLibZone

She also supported... Mitt!!!!!

ttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2762989/posts


48 posted on 09/24/2014 1:26:36 PM PDT by NoLibZone (The bad news: Hillary Clinton will be the next President. The Good news: Our principles are intact.)
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To: alstewartfan
The “represent the state” is misleading and meaningless criticism. The best way to represent one’s state is to vote for the things that help the entire country which is what Roberts does.
49 posted on 09/24/2014 1:26:53 PM PDT by Dave W
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To: txhurl
What if Roberts retires within a year of the election and the Gov appoints a young conservative to hold the seat in the interim?

Two problems with that. A) there is no reason to believe that Roberts would do that, and B) Brownback's got his own problems and is no shoe-in for re-election.

50 posted on 09/24/2014 1:27:03 PM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: txhurl
What if Roberts retires within a year of the election and the Gov appoints a young conservative to hold the seat in the interim?

As long as you're dreaming, would you like a pony?

51 posted on 09/24/2014 1:27:04 PM PDT by Colonel_Flagg ("Compromise" means you've already decided you lost.)
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To: Resettozero

the fact the establishment party types have to beg for tea party reserves pulls the party to the conservative.


52 posted on 09/24/2014 1:27:21 PM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: longtermmemmory

Good point!


53 posted on 09/24/2014 1:28:09 PM PDT by dforest
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To: Conservative Gato

One good thing about Sarah coming, it is driving the libtards insane on local message boards.


Here, too. The FR Harry Reid Fan Club is extremely upset.


54 posted on 09/24/2014 1:29:00 PM PDT by txhurl (2014: Stunned Voters do Stunning Things!)
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To: Parley Baer

FU, it’s a retarded question. As retarded as asking “if you don’t support a worthless McCain or Romney or (for 2016) Romney again, or Christie, or Jeb” then you “are for Hillary”.

Take a class in logic.


55 posted on 09/24/2014 1:29:04 PM PDT by Fledermaus (Conservatives are all that's left to defend the Constitution. Dems hate it, and Repubs don't care.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Why is Sarah even there?


You don’t get it.


56 posted on 09/24/2014 1:29:23 PM PDT by laplata (Liberals don't get it .... their minds are diseased.)
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To: InterceptPoint
I have heard that his votes on cloture are less than perfect but that’s about it. Heritage ranks him right up with Ted Cruz which makes no sense.

I agree. I'd like to know what makes Roberts so RINO-ish that he should be tossed under the bus.

57 posted on 09/24/2014 1:29:42 PM PDT by ScottinVA (If it doesn't include border security, it isn't "reform." It's called "amnesty.")
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To: Fledermaus

Well, you do have to make a choice. I think that it’s nonsense to make statements like yours without being willing to embrace the consequences. Your response is much more encouraging that what many others on this forum are saying.

The childish BS is coming from the pollyannaish notion of many that conservatism can win by purging from our ranks all of those who are not sufficiently pure, as determined by some self appointed vigilantes.


58 posted on 09/24/2014 1:30:08 PM PDT by centurion316
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To: laplata

Oh, I get it all right. The RINOs won. And they’ll hand Obola everything he wants in the lame duck session.


59 posted on 09/24/2014 1:30:36 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("The man who damns money obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it earned it." --Ayn Rand)
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To: cripplecreek

She knows there are serious problems with the GOP but also know that destroying them without a viable replacement is suicide.


Exactly!

If some people here had their way, we’d be lucky to have 2 Republicans in the Senate and 5 republicans in the House.

They’re either idiots or infiltrators. IMO


60 posted on 09/24/2014 1:31:51 PM PDT by laplata (Liberals don't get it .... their minds are diseased.)
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