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I know Milton. He’s a partner in one of my companies, but he had zero name recognition and Roberts had a very good voting record. To whine about being able to “reform itself” is nonsense in this case. If Roberts was more liberal, or if Milton had a track record or was better known, then the article might have some credibility. Even Milton thought it was a long shot.

1. Pat Roberts was 78 years old and will be 84 or 85 when his term expires. As such he is not able to drive hard against the left-wing deconstruction of our liberties. Pat Roberts is not the man for this season.

2. Pat Roberts is not set foot in Kansas except to campaign since Dorothy went skipping down the yellow brick road. He declined to debate the Challenger.

3. Milton Wolf was an able candidate, with impeccable conservative credentials, a physician, quite articulate on TV albeit with relatively minor personal peccadillo in his background who campaigned on reforming Washington where Pat Roberts has presided over and too often participated in the disintegration of our liberties and our Republic.

4. The setback in Kansas is not isolated but part of a pattern across the country in which we see establishment Republicans prevailing over Tea Party reformers.

5. The loss was not close, seven or eight points.

It is the inability of reformers overall to energize even conservative electorates in Kansas and elsewhere at a time of real peril to the nation and to our liberties that is dispiriting. Even if we search out ways to rationalize this result, the same article could have been written about Lindsey Graham in South Carolina, Lamar Alexander in Tennessee, Mitch McConnell in Kentucky. The inertia is discouraging because it is nearly ubiquitous.