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“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.”

To which I say, so what! It's not the ‘60’s, it's a half-century later. An 86% "lifetime" conservative rating doesn't mean much, when today he's around 60%. No one cares today what Roberts did back then, and even if he walked on water back then, it doesn't give him an unfettered “perpetual right” to the seat. I don't know if Wolf would be a good Senator, no one does. Maybe, he's not worth consideration. If that's the case, shame on the Kansas GOP for “deciding” to run the old boy one more time, rather than having someone you could endorse in waiting.
The real truth about the GOP the country over is that it's a bunch of old men who have no vision, no balls, and no fight in them. If there were a scintilla of energy in most of them, their ratings would not be in the toilet despite the despicable Obama Administration. All they want to do is hold the office. Don't you have any sort of a “bench” there? Are you really willing to cede this wonderful country to a bunch of has beens?
You have an opportunity that isn't open to me here in loony leftist California. The once strong CAGOP has managed to piss itself into extinction with complete a$$holes like Arnold the Awful. Even Orange County, once a conservative stronghold, has gone pretty much RAT. Remember, as we are now today, you soon will become if you don't start electing energetic new faces that everyone in your state can get behind.

"To which I say, so what! It's not the ‘60’s, it's a half-century later. An 86% "lifetime" conservative rating doesn't mean much, when today he's around 60%."

84%, actually, his score last year from the ACU. That put him to the right of the junior Senator, Moran, his House successor.

"No one cares today what Roberts did back then, and even if he walked on water back then, it doesn't give him an unfettered “perpetual right” to the seat."

I'm not talking about "back then." I'm talking about now. And where did I say he has the right to a perpetual hold on the seat ? I was the one that said I wished he had retired this year. He chose to stay.

"I don't know if Wolf would be a good Senator, no one does. Maybe, he's not worth consideration. If that's the case, shame on the Kansas GOP for “deciding” to run the old boy one more time, rather than having someone you could endorse in waiting."

You're making my point here about Wolf. We know nothing about him. But Roberts is not so horrid as to throw him out in favor of someone we know zero about (except his relationship to Zero). For all we know, he could be in tight with his cousin and told them, "Hey, cuz, how 'bout I run against you and see if the rubes will support me. Don't worry, I'll support your agenda as a Republican if I'm elected !" That would be reminiscent of when LBJ wanted a supermajority, he told his fellow Democrats to either campaign for or against him in order to get elected.

"The real truth about the GOP the country over is that it's a bunch of old men who have no vision, no balls, and no fight in them."

You're not entirely wrong. Of course, they'll fight like hell when it comes to preserving their power. Witness the epic-level corruption and fraud in the MS Senate race. They'll also fight to keep Conservatives from winning the Presidential nomination, witness the last two appalling sideshows in 2008 and 2012.

"If there were a scintilla of energy in most of them, their ratings would not be in the toilet despite the despicable Obama Administration. All they want to do is hold the office. Don't you have any sort of a “bench” there? Are you really willing to cede this wonderful country to a bunch of has beens?"

I love up and comers, but ones that have been properly vetted. Wolf hasn't been, and handing him a 6-year term when we have no definitive proof of what he will do with it is why I can't endorse him in this race. He's one of the few challengers this year to incumbent Republicans I have not endorsed.

"You have an opportunity that isn't open to me here in loony leftist California. The once strong CAGOP has managed to piss itself into extinction with complete a$$holes like Arnold the Awful. Even Orange County, once a conservative stronghold, has gone pretty much RAT. Remember, as we are now today, you soon will become if you don't start electing energetic new faces that everyone in your state can get behind."

We don't know what that opportunity is for Kansas, since we know nothing about the challenger. I'd rather have two Pat Roberts in my state of Tennessee, where we have 3 RINOs occupying both Senate seats and the Governorship. It's sad to see CA turn into the third-world hellhole that it has become. The CA GOP would rather pander to the left and run ringers for office rather than stand up and offer a real choice.