Posted on 09/30/2014 12:13:05 PM PDT by cotton1706
Former Sen. Nancy Kassebaum Baker (R-KS) refused to film a campaign TV ad on behalf of vulnerable incumbent Sen. Pat Roberts (R-KS), the Kansas City Star reported Tuesday.
Kassebaum Baker represented Kansas in the Senate from 1978 to 1997 and was succeeded by Roberts, who had been a congressman. Her father Alf Landon was governor of Kansas and the Republican nominee against FDR in 1936.
“There’s just disappointment around the state,” she told the Star of Roberts. “They feel they don’t know him now.”
Roberts is facing an unexpectedly robust challenge from independent candidate Greg Orman, who currently leads the incumbent by 1 point in TPM's PollTracker average. A group of moderate Kansas Republicans also endorsed Orman in the race.
Kassebaum Baker had previously criticized Roberts in a Washington Post profile of Roberts last week. She singled out Roberts' vote in 2012 against a United Nations treaty that would have banned discrimination against people with disabilities. Another former Kansas Republican senator, Bob Dole, who is himself disabled, had advocated for the treaty.
“People thought, ‘Gosh, why couldn’t he have done that for Bob?’ ” she said. “That just triggered an emotional disappointment with Pat. I think that carried on and has not been changed.”
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If Pat Roberts really is a RINO, why aren’t the RINOs solidly backing him?
Well, you Nimrod twit, did you ever consider the fact that America had our own disabilities act passed back in the Reagan Administration and didn't need the UN telling us what to do?
Nancy Landon Kassebaum is no moderate. She once was one of the leaders of the liberal Republican cult in Kansas that dominated state politics. Behind the scenes, she is helping to push the fiction of Greg Orman as an “Independent”. Pat Roberts is far too conservative to suit her and her groupies. The left senses blood in the water for both Brownback and Roberts and have called for their allies in the Leftist Media to ride to their aid. They have obliged.
Anyone who supports Orman or Davis is no conservative and is not even a “moderate”. They are left wingers pure and simple. You know who you are.
Moderates don’t want to support anybody to the right of Susan Collins...because moderate republicans are democrats.
I’m beginning to think that the Republicans don’t want the Senate because then they would have to, you know, do stuff.
Well that should settle that. If Kassenbaum is against him conservatives should be for him.
Indiana’s ex-senator Richard Lugar supports Democrat Michelle Nunn in Georgia. Virginia’s ex-senator John Warner (late of Richard Nixon’s comment when challenged on the tapes regarding a subsequent appointment as Navy Secretary, “Hell, any a^^^^^^e can do it, we had John Warner doing it!”), publicly supports Democrat John Warner, AFTER the clown screwed Ollie North as the Rep nominee for Senate by getting Marshall Coleman to run as an independent. Now Kassebaum. Anyone criticizing Roberts (and he’s not the best choice, only much, much more conservative than Orman) need only read this to know who to get out and vote for.
“I’m beginning to think that the Republicans don’t want the Senate”
Oh, they want the senate all right, they just prefer it with types like Kassebaum, Collins, Cochran etc. They abhor conservatives and have moved both heaven and earth to prevent ANY conservatives from getting elected to their precious Senate. They don’t want the people choosing the members of what they see as the American House of Lords. They want to choose who the people will be allowed to elect, hence the NRSC, which endorses the more moderate candidate in EVERY race. They want to get their own types elected, then keep them there, overwhelming any possible challenger with money, and support.
She’s the Bill Bolling of Kansas
Its funny the GOPe hyped Roberts and defended a guy who lives in Virginia. Now he’s struggling!
You reap what you sow GOP!
What happened to Kansas? I was in Johnson County in 1964 when Goldwater carried it.
Nancy has her Depends in a twist???
Exactly. I remember Kassenbaum. Didn’t impress me much. She impresses me even less now.
My guess is she may be jealous because Sarah was brought in to campaign for Pat before anyone asked her.
So true.
Exactly. I remember Kassenbaum. Didn’t impress me much. She impresses me even less now.
My guess is she may be jealous because Sarah was brought in to campaign for Pat before anyone asked her.
I cannot imagine why on earth Kassebaum would be jealous of Sarah Palin.
Having said that, Roberts is suffering from the negative image that has resulted in the fact that he really doesn't live in the state anymore. So being faced with that, why did he bring in Bob Dole, who doesn't live in the state anymore, to stump with him? And why would he want Kassebaum, who doesn't live in the state anymore, to endorse him as well? All that does is reinforce the fact that he's completely out of touch with the Kansas voters.
If the republicans take the senate nothing will get done and they will be blamed in 2016. Not saying anything will be their fault. Obama can veto anything he wants and the senate won’t be able to override it. Then he’ll blame the republicans.
The GOP certainly doesn’t seem to want anything to do with Republicans who would cut govt.
That should tell everyone everything they need to know about the GOP. Lovers of HUGE govt. Something that liberty loving conservatives like myself hate.
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