Posted on 07/03/2014 6:01:18 PM PDT by cotton1706
Appearing on a Kansas City local radio talk show on KCMO Thursday morning, Senator Pat Roberts made a verbal gaffe that plays right into his primary opponent's main talking point against him.
Reports show that Roberts spends very little time his home state of Kansas - less than 100 days using official funds over the course of two years, an issue his opponent, radiologist, Dr. Milton Wolfe has capitalized on.
"After 47 years in Washington, it's clear that Kansas is a distant memory for Pat Roberts," Wolf said back in May. "How else do you explain Roberts wanting to spend his time anywhere but Kansas? Maybe if he still lived here he'd actually want to return here. "
When KCMO talk show Greg Knapp asked Roberts about the residency issue, Roberts answered that his performance shouldn’t be measured on where he lives.
“I don’t measure my competency or my record or the results – and I do get results – on where I put my head on a pillow,” he said.
But pressed about listener concerns that Roberts does not actually live in the state, the Senator faltered badly. “Every time I get an opponent, uh, I mean every time I get a chance I’m home,” Roberts said.
In another misstep, today, the Roberts’ camp retweeted a race baiter who slimed Milton Wolfe by saying Roberts should not have to debate “a racist and a fool”. The campaign deleted the retweet after one minute, but the damage was already done - Twitchy has the screenshot.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Well stated.
In the end you get what you vote for, and in Roberts case, you aren’t getting much.
Who in your mind are better Senators?
“Kansas residents have had him as a Senator for so long because they voted for him.”
Well yeah! And sure, people should be able to vote for whomever they want too. But just how’s that working out for our country? And as far as your comment to the effect that, “that’s just the way it’s been for a long time” makes it neither smart nor any way compliant with the vision of the founding fathers. And you are very wrong in your assertion that it’s “been that way from the beginning,” because it hasn’t. The truth is, Roberts should have been replaced thirty years ago, but like a lot of other states, Kansas voters don’t really care who they have representing them from the looks or it. One day, not far off as I see it, people like you are going to wake up and be completely surprised that the country they thought they had is gone!
I guess you are also o.k. with all those voters deciding that they want the RATs so they will get all that “free $hit” too. I mean after all, “it’s what they want,”right?
Good Senators: Lee and Cruz. Not much else!
“HUH? I have no assurance at all that Milton Wolf won’t vote against the 2nd Amendment. I have no confidence at all that Wolf won’t vote to fund Planned Parenthood. But, of course, Wolf will never get elected, in the General. I am sure the Dems in Obama’s Justice Department will file Federal charges against Wolf in October, for all of Wolf’s criminal violations of patient privacy rights.”
I get it! You don’t like Wolf! Now if you knew half as much about Roberts........
You’re one of those folks who thinks Congress is terrible, except for my guy!
BTW, have you ever run for office? Ever done anything to contribute in a meaningful way to make things better?
HA HA, that’s pretty good. A true Freudian slip!
I have been personally responsible for defeating more incumbent Republicans than anyone you have ever met in your life.
I am quite confident of that fact.
I’m impressed. My tour of duty was three terms on the Republican Central Committee in the county where we live and an officer in the California Republican Assembly (the conservative grass roots Republican group). Plus several Assembly campaigns. This was all during the period when Ronald Reagan was our governor.
But I am estranged from the GOP now. I won’t give them money and have asked them not to call. For me, men like Roberts personify what’s wrong with politics and the GOP in particular. The recent business in MS says it all. The “old boys club” (the GOPe) is not about inclusion,. but rather maintenance of the “status quo.” The GOP today is where the RATs were twenty years ago and the “old boys” just don’t seem to realize they have doomed their party to the dust bin of history.
For me it’s sad to see someone like yourself who seemingly can’t see where your ideas are taking the party. Personally, I could not live with your decision making process. I’d take a chance on new people. because with them, there is a chance that the party will reform
Pick your fights carefully.
There is no reason to make enemies we don’t need.
Roberts has been a fighter. Roberts stood up for me more than once, even though we used to argue all the time.
Kansas should probably elect someone from their state
You beat people with ISSUES!
You turn people off making it so personal.
Why in Heaven’s name will anyone WANT to be convinced to vote as a conservative, in office, if we repay their courageous stands by stabbing them in the back?
If you have no ISSUES to run on?
DONT RUN!
Reid doesn’t come back to Nevada much. Mostly to campaign and pass out $$. We kinda like it that way!
“You beat people with ISSUES!
You turn people off making it so personal.”
What? Surely you don’t mean that. It’s very “personal” to me what a person actually believes apart from whatever issues there are. BTW, seems to me from reading over what you have written, that you don’t like Wolf on a “personal” basis, or you are upset because he’s trying to change the status quo.
Long ago, I figured out what the GOPe was all about (back when I was a Central Committee Member), but you, after all your years in party politics still haven’t figured it out. Either that, or you are a closet Liberal, because Liberalism is what the GOPe stands for today. Some of them, like Roberts, have been in office so long that they actually believe their own bull$hit, and evidently you do too.
“Pick your fights carefully.
There is no reason to make enemies we don’t need.
Roberts has been a fighter. Roberts stood up for me more than once, even though we used to argue all the time.”
So by reason of his decision to run for public office, Wolf has “picked a fight with your buddy Roberts,” is that it? Perish the thought that someone would dane to run against this “Lion of the Senate.”
Some other poster said that he was voting for Roberts because his son once dated the guy’s daughter. Is that what passes for evaluating political candidates now? Sheesh! I have no words for that mentality. Some of the good people of Kansas have been out in the sun too long. Either that or they’ve turned some of their corn into an alcoholic beverage and have consumed a lot of it.
Don’t be a jerk.
Loyalty is important.
Without loyalty?
Well, a lack of loyalty to the conservative base is precisely why we are mad at Haley Barbour and Thad Cochran.
Yes, when politicians do what I want, I reward them with my vote.
Roberts has, pretty much, done what I want. And he has helped many other conservatives get elected!
(Something the SELFISH Milton Wolf has never done!!!)
So ANY IDIOT can run, and if that person has not been in office before, has not been tested, has no voting record -—
WOW, YOU WILL VOTE FOR HIM?
(Isn’t this precisely the resume of Obama, Milton Wolf’s cousin???)
WOW, YOU WILL VOTE FOR HIM?”
I scarcely know how to respond to you. Have you ever read the Constitution?
To hear you tell it, only those people who have received someones “seal of approval” are allowed the privilege of running for public office. I don't have adequate words to describe just how wrong and anti-American you are. No wonder Kansas is the dead letter office for politics (but then you also stuck with Bob Dole well beyond the point where he should have been replaced).
If you want term limits try and pass them, otherwise getting rid of someone just because they have been in office for a long time is foolish. He's conservative, save your ammo for one who isn't.
The "vision of the founding fathers" is the Constitution. Regardless of your opinion of how long one should be in office the founders didn't specify term limits.
One day, not far off as I see it, people like you are going to wake up and be completely surprised that the country they thought they had is gone!
You are advocating getting rid of one of he most conservative senators in congress and you think "people like me" are going to be surprised? Whatever bud.
I guess you are also o.k. with all those voters deciding that they want the RATs so they will get all that “free $hit” too. I mean after all, “it’s what they want,”right?
That the kind of leap of logic I would suspect of someone willing to replace one of the most conservative senators just because he's been there "too long".
“That the kind of leap of logic I would suspect of someone willing to replace one of the most conservative senators just because he’s been there “too long”.”
Whatever!
From the Washington Times:
“Election-year shifts?
Mr. Roberts‘ opponents say voters shouldn’t be fooled by his voting record this year and point out that he ranked much lower on Heritage Action’s 2012 list, with a score of 65 percent.
They also accuse him of adopting the same strategy that Sen. Orrin G. Hatch, Utah Republican, employed during his re-election fight, running to the right during the campaign only to return to his moderate ways after he won another six-year term.
“It’s important to remember that some of these incumbents are not liberals or even moderates,” Daniel Horowitz, the group’s policy director, said on their website. “But they are not conservatives either. They are a ruling class of special-interest career politicians who pursue personal power as an end to itself. When it suits their need to cast some conservative votes, they will do so. But when they need to placate the special interests, they will jump in head first. They certainly will never put their careers on the line to fight for us.”
So much for your assertion that Roberts is a Conservative!
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