Posted on 08/13/2014 5:15:21 AM PDT by cotton1706
In a decent year for Republicans, like this one, a longtime Republican senator should be having a pretty easy time in a state that hasn’t voted for a Democratic presidential candidate since 1964, or a Democratic senator since 1938.
And yet over the last few weeks, two surveys have shown Pat Roberts, a Republican senator from Kansas, ahead by just five points or less over his Democratic challenger, Chad Taylor.
Is it real? It’s hard to imagine Mr. Roberts actually losing, but something is brewing in Kansas — and if it’s possible for a Republican incumbent senator in Kansas to end up in a fairly tight race without a scandal or outrageous gaffe, then this is about the way it would happen.
Senator Pat Roberts was cheered on by supporters while waiting for the results of the Republican primary vote in Overland Park, Kan. on Tuesday night.
Start with Mr. Roberts himself, who is an extremely weak incumbent. His weakness was on display this month, when he won the Republican nomination with only 48 percent of the vote. He probably would have lost against a more serious challenger, but instead squeaked by against Milton Wolf, a radiologist who was chastised for posting gruesome images of wounded patients to Facebook accompanied by distasteful commentary. Mr. Roberts was plagued by residency issues — he pays a family $300 a month to occasionally stay overnight in their home on a golf course — and those issues could persist if the general election ends up being competitive.
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“but votes as a Democrat.”
Do you have a link for that? His ACU lifetime rating is 86.40% and his 2013 rating is 84%. I could understand saying that about someone like Murkowski in Alaska, whose rating is 62% lifetime and 36% for 2013, but in the 80s seems fairly decent IMHO. As other examples, one of my favorite Senators, Sessions, has a lifetime rating of 94% and 88% in 2013.
It takes a special kind of stupid to keep electing liberals, even if they are republican.
/johnny
I'm not a republican. I'm a conservative.
/johnny
As am I, but we still have to operate within a two party system because third parties have always been completely irrelevant in this country.
What is this second party of which you speak?
this will be interesting to watch
the GOP-e demanded that Roberts was needed in order to win in November
we’ll see how much that was or wasn’t just fear campaign against his opponent
No thanks. I won't vote for a liberal. Especially a liberal republican.
/johnny
It would be nice if the Republican Party acted like a second party or an opposition party for a change. They prattle on, huff and puff, talk trash, do their show votes and then bow meekly to the democrats and surrender. Sometimes they have done this while in the majority!
I am all for regulating the Republican Party to third party status at this point and replace it outright as it was replaced by the Whigs when they became useless.
I guess the people of Kansas are just tried of the cheapskate RINO argument for voting for a man who happens to steal the republican nomination yet acts like a Democrat.
Its the same Problem in South Carolina with Lindsey Graham. The man is not a republican, or a conservative instead hes a 5th column giving Democrat extremism legitimacy while undermining our own cause.
I hate to say it but I just can’t stumic voting for such a vicious traitor and call it compromise. Its not compromise at all its a leftist knife in our back. And people like Graham know it too, as most of his supporters are Democrats in Democrat areas voting in the republican primaries.
The Same supporters who promptly swap their Graham signs for Democrat campaign signs as soon as the primary is over.
Literally that’s EXACTLY what happened all over South Carolina come Primary day. How would you feel about voting for that kind of corruption? We don’t have fair elections in this State, not when the democrat pick our candidates, as well as their own.
My guess is that most folks around here would agree with your sensible statement.
Would America be better off if amnesty was passed?
With all due respect, Graham simply used the “tactic” of Divide-and-Ccnquer” to “win” his job for another six years.
SC’s patriots chose to NOT select one (ONE!!!) strong opponent to crush Graham — on the issues — in the Primary. The result — the evil but “strong” Graham defeated the “weak” seven-dwarves — was fore-ordained.
Now Obama hopes to use the SAME “Divide and Conquer” tactic to complete his plan to destroy America.
IMHO, if you want “to send a message”, use a postcard.
But VOTE against Obama....
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