“This is hardly news. Many Congressman have the exact same setups. It is no reason to replace him with a Leftist.”
What is so very very sad about that comment is how it so closely resembles the whining excuses which come from clueless liberal minded criminals when they have finally been hauled before a criminal court judge to face the miserable consequences of their criminal behavior. They have nothing but, but, but, but, your honor excuses for why they think they should be immune from punishment richly deserved simply because someone else besides them is getting away with the same criminal behavior. They just don’t get the fundamental concept that greed is greed and doing wrong may ultimately have catastrophic consequences.
In the case with Sen. Roberts, he got greedy over personal issues which are now ridiculously trivial in comparison to the political consequences being faced by his failure to protect his Senate seat and vote. Now he faces personal consequences and the Republican voters face consequences for their failure these past decades to hold Roberts accountable for his betrayal of his own integrity and betrayal of trustworthiness of the electorate he represents. There have been innumerable opportunities for Roberts, his family, his supporters, and the GOP to remedy this long looming problem with greed before it could result in devastating consequences to us all.
Sen. Roberts could have and should have never succumbed to greed and claimed any real property other than a Kansas location as his primary residence and domicile. Having already done so, Sen. Roberts should have remedied the problem long before this election arose, but he did not. Sen. Robert’s family and friends should have insisted that Sen. Roberts abandon the greed before the election, perhaps they did not. Sen. Roberts’ political donors should have if necessary helped Sen. Roberts to comply with the residency requirement with home financing in a lawful fashion, but they did not. Instead, we are here in the final days before an election highly critical to the safety of millions of people in the United States and more throughout the world with a GOP candidate whose petty personal greed has forfeited his integrity, reputation, trustworthiness, and power to contribute to achieving a Republican majority in the U.S. Senate.
When will the people who purport to being political conservative start walking the talk and hold their would be political representatives strictly accountable for betraying the fundamental conservative principles of honesty, integrity, and trustworthiness long before circumstances reach a political crisis that can compromise their own integrity in an election?
Amen and amen.