I guess that this is somewhat a pointless conversation. I don’t know all there is to know about Wolf. I’d like you to tell me just what “record” a newcomer to politics should have? Maybe he just woke up one morning and decided to run, never having been involved in any way in the past. What if there IS no there there? The sorry-assed job Roberts has been doing for many years is, somehow in your mind preferable to a new, untested candidate. I am sorry that that’s how you feel, but I am diametrically opposed to your line of thinking. Running a trained monkey against Roberts and winning would be a plus. And if the monkey turned out to be a RAT monkey, in GOP clothing, you can still get rid of him as soon as you could Roberts. Roberts does a lot of damage to the process just by being in the “old boy’s group.” Wolf would need a couple of terms to be able to do anything more than vote with the RATs, and if he did, he would be in good company in the GOP when you consider the entrenched RINOS that are already there (can you say Susan Collins).
Exactly. Whereas a real "fearless conservative fighter" who is seeking office for the first time would have a TRACK RECORD of promoting and campaigning for conservative causes as a private citizen for years.
Wolf's "fearless constitutional conservative" persona is a made up campaign creation, much like Barack Obama's "principled reformer who bridge the partisan divide" was.
If it’s pointless, it’s because no one can answer the question about the elusive Dr. Wolf’s record. If the man doesn’t have a voting record in office, what are his contributions and bonafides in the private sector in furthering the Conservative agenda ? If there is no “there” there, perhaps he should start building up a record BEFORE he jumps to a major office, one of the two highest federal ones in Kansas.
I take issue with the comments of Sen. Roberts’ doing a “sorry-assed” job. He’s been a fairly reliable Conservative, especially where the Senate is concerned, with a lifetime average of 86%. That he’s been in DC that long and still voting at that range is telling. Are you aware that he is the most Conservative person to occupy that Senate seat in decades ? He succeeded a liberal RINO, Nancy Kassebaum (1979-97). Kassebaum succeeded Jim Pearson (1962-78), a left-wing Socialist Republican who had an 84% leftist rating in his last year in office (he had started out mainstream and went left as the ‘60s went on). Pearson was closer to Ted Kennedy than to his junior Senator, Bob Dole.
With all these attacks and badmouthing of the man, you fellas need some perspective here about how Roberts finally brought some Conservative sanity back to that seat after decades of squishiness and flaky leftism.