Posted on 02/26/2014 6:03:00 AM PST by cotton1706
Fellow Conservatives:
One of the biggest lies in Republican politics has finally been laid to rest.
The National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) has long maintained that its only goal is to win a Republican majority in the Senate.
But earlier this week, the NRSC disproved this claim when it refused to support conservative candidates against Democrats in the Fall.
Here's the background on this important story.
The NRSC has historically supported all Republican nominees regardless of their ideology as part of the committee's goal of electing Republicans.
NRSCThere have been races in the past where the NRSC played favorites with moderates, but the committee always maintained public support for every Republican nominee after the primary. The NRSC even supported Todd Akin in 2012 once it was clear he was the only Republican on the ballot.
But the NRSC's policy of supporting all GOP nominees has now changed.
The NRSC was asked this week if they would commit to supporting conservative Dr. Milton Wolf (R-KS) in the general election. They refused.
The NRSC is trying to assassinate Dr. Wolf's character by calling him unethical, unstable, and even sadistic. The attacks are so personal and so extreme, they've left no room to support him in the future.
It's all being driven by the fact that Pat Roberts, the incumbent, saw his lead collapse by 28 points after voters learned that he doesn't live in Kansas and has been lying to them about it for over 15 years.
(Excerpt) Read more at senateconservatives.com ...
Are you from Kansas?
He posted x-ray images of horrible injuries and that disqualifies him?
“Are you from Kansas?”
No, I live in MA.
Oh, the same NRSC (then headed by John Cornball) who pretty much supported MurKOWsi’s write in campaign over Joe Miller’s legitimate win, in AK??
The Senate Conservatives Fund has put the RINO-NRSC on notice, and they don’t like it one bit.
So, who are you supporting/volunteering for in the Senate race, in KS? Thanks.
My training as a diagnostic radiologist included the critical component of studying medical images published both in textbooks and online. I have myself authored and published educational material that teaches medical imaging to medical students and doctors. Of the thousands of medical images I have published I have taken care to maintain patient privacy. Several years ago I made some comments about these images that were insensitive to the seriousness of what the images revealed. Soon thereafter, I removed those images and comments, again several years ago. For them to be published in a much more public context now, by a political adversary who would rather declare war on doctors than answer serious questions that Kansans have, is truly sad. However, my mistakes are my own and I take full responsibility for them. I have said throughout this campaign and long before it began that I bear the scars of taking the Oath to my patients. When I was 15 years old, I stood at my father's bedside, himself a rural doctor, and watched him take his last breath. It was at that moment that I knew I would take his torch and dedicate my life to serving patients in need. I'm reminded just how extraordinarily difficult the burden is when I have failed to live up to his example. It is an incredible honor and an enormous burden to work shoulder-to-shoulder with dedicated people who every day run towards the screaming instead of away. The cumulative effect of day after day, year after year, witnessing so much human suffering, so much tragedy, takes its toll. I've seen the burdens of practicing medicine tear apart families and drive good people to vice and as great as the honor is to serve, I would still not wish the burdens of it upon anyone. To those I have offended, I am truly sorry and I ask for your forgiveness. And now, years later, because I have declared that I am willing to stand up for my country, Senator Pat Roberts wants to attack me as a doctor rather than giving Kansans a reason to vote for him. It's sad. Pat Roberts has not been able to identify a single issue on which he thinks I am wrong and so he's doing things the Washington way: character assassination. Kansans should know that I will not be intimidated by their bullying. I did not back down when Barack Obama's IRS audited me and I will not back down from the desperate attacks of a 47-year Washington insider either.I am sure a lot of us have done dumb things. That doesn't make us bad people.
Disqualifies him?
Who has the power to disqualify him? I don’t.
I thought he was a great candidate for the Senate and beyond.
But he didn’t just post pictures of horrible injuries, as one might for a medical lecture.
He posted pictures of actual patients, and made stupid jokey comments about them.
Does that mean to me he is a terrible man? No, although it seems foolhardy and quite offensive. I wouldn’t want my doctor posting my images, or images of a loved one, and making wisecracks about it, would you?
The problem here is that conservatives these days don’t have to defeat only their opposing candidates. They have to defeat the establishment, the media and the sappy, sloppy easily distracted electorate.
It seems to me there is no way Dr. Wolf could win an election with these photographs and comments being used against him on television and elsewhere around the clock.
If I’m wrong, I’m wrong.
Wow, formatting from a phone is tough!
Since the Akin/Mourdock debacle of 2012, the NRSC has made it mandatory that you go to candidate school or you are basically disavowed.
The school involves 4 days of training in 2 sessions. You get grilled by former newsreporters in front of cameras and your mistakes are analyzed. You are further coached in the proper way to answer the gotcha questions.
Bottomline is now, no candidate school means no support.
“You really think a stupid posting and some stupid comments on FACEBOOK should disqualify a candidate for office? “
No, but it does preclude a successful election run.
Just ask President Dan “Potato” Quayle or President Hillary “sniper fire” Clinton or Senator Todd “rape” Akin or President Mitt “47%” Romney.
Milton Wolf shot himself in the foot by posting that stuff in the first place. I agree Pat Roberts has become detatched with his state and probably should just retire, but Wolf hurt himself unnecessarily here.
Should SCF not expose the real disgusting attacks by the GOPe against other candidates. Like perhaps the ridiculous ‘he signed a document praising the bailout Mitch actually voted for’ being used to smear Matt Bevin all over Breitbart and such. Or how about the white supremacist accusations being thrown at Chris McDaniel. Or most outrageously, the lawsuit against Greg Brannon by a guy on Thom Tillis’ team in North Carolina?
We need to destroy the GOPe.
He posted pictures of actual patients, and made stupid jokey comments about them
I’ve searched the web and cannot find “the exact words” he said. All I have read thus far is he used the word terminator and had x-rays of people. I think we need to see exactly what he wrote and not others versions of it.
The really sad thing is their seems to be a well organized campaign to destroy Dr. Wolf.
I visited a yahoo news article about him, and the comments seemed unnatural. Almost paid troll like.
“But Milton Wolf is a damned idiot and we are lucky we found it out as early as we did.”
Thank you for pointing this out. Unfortunately, we have a vocal group of ‘real conservatives’ who seem hell-bent on nominating candidates without a chance of winning the general election in order to ‘send a message’.
“So a stupid stunt by Dr. Wolf, 4 years ago, is reason to disqualify a Tea-Party candidate.”
No, but it does preclude a successful election run by either a rino or teaparty candidate.
Just ask President Dan “Potato” Quayle or President Hillary “sniper fire” Clinton or Senator Todd “rape” Akin or President Mitt “47%” Romney.
“So a stupid stunt by Dr. Wolf, 4 years ago, is reason to disqualify a Tea-Party candidate.”
Absolutely, if that ‘stupid stunt’ makes the candidate unelectable.
Oh, I don’t doubt they are jumping on it after local media slime dug it up. They are scared of how well he’s doing. The Pat Roberts ‘third senator for Virginia’ ads hurt a lot. What I’m saying is that the things he posted were inappropriate and insensitive. Not illegal, but cavalier and careless. What’s worse, he didn’t handle being questioned on it very well.
Who is surprised by this? Has anyone forgotten what happened in 2010 to Christine ODonnel, DE and Sharon Angel, NV? The Rinos could have retired Harry Reid, and controlled the senate with a win by either candidate, but instead fought for control of the RINO party. They also supported Murkowski in AK as an independent instead of Joe Miller.
Yes they have party control, no they will never have my support again. Who gives a ratsass if they control the senate in 2014. RINOs and D’s are inbreed twins.
I can’t get the words “anyone without sin, cast the first stone” out of my head.
It doesn’t seem that he is a repeat offender. He obviously isn’t “an idiot” or he wouldn’t have gotten as far in the medical field as he has. And, he took the pictures and comments down after realizing that it wasn’t good.
I hate that we throw potentially good candidates away because they don’t fit the establishment.
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