Posted on 07/09/2014 1:42:35 PM PDT by bkopto
Sen. Pat Roberts (R-KS) told Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN) that he may be the next victim of the anti-incumbent Tea Party mood sweeping America with the defeat of House Majority Leader Eric Cantor earlier this year, Politico’s Manu Raju reports.
“I might be next,” a “deadly serious” Roberts told Corker on a ride on the underground senate subway, Roberts recounted in an interview with Politico’s Raju in Kansas. “You never know.”
Roberts was referring to how Dave Brat beat Cantor using an anti-incumbency style that Roberts’ current conservative primary opponent, Dr. Milton Wolf, is following. Wolf—President Barack Obama’s second cousin—has emerged as a leader in the Tea Party movement over the past few years, and his fiery style of anti-political class politics has played well into the conservative new media brand of grassroots politician.
Wolf’s story aside, however, Roberts’ situation is eerily similar to other incumbents who’ve been dropping at an abnormally high rate.
“He’s been dogged by questions over his residency ever since a February report in The New York Times that he rents a room in the home of longtime friends and donors when he returns to the state,” Politico’s Raju wrote. “Though Roberts does own half of a duplex in Dodge City that he has rented out for years and previously lived in, the issue is reminiscent of the problems that doomed longtime Indiana Sen. Dick Lugar two years ago.”
Raju asked Roberts about the residency question, at which point he sought to differentiate his situation from Lugar’s.
“Dick Lugar had his farm, for goodness sakes, and thought it was his home; that’s not the same thing,” Roberts said during the interview with his wife in the room. “I own the property there, I pay taxes there, I vote there. He didn’t do that.”
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I think birthers are often kooks, and I think those who oppose abortion restrictions based on “purity” arguments are also silly.
I have helped defeat more incumbent Republicans than anyone you know.
You just don't like it when I tell flakey loose cannons that they are on the wrong path.
“Sen. Pat Roberts (R-KS) told Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN) that he may be the next victim of the anti-incumbent Tea Party mood sweeping America”
I believe the “Tea Party” to be nothing more than the republican party’s Conservative base. If the republican acknowledge this the republicans would need to stop using the term Conservative, to them it’s just an obligatory campaign slogan.
That is not YOUR call.
The US Senate says Roberts is a Kansas Resident.
The Kansas Department of Revenue says Roberts is a Kansas Resident.
The Governor, the Kansas AG, the Kansas Secretary of State all say Roberts is a Kansas Resident.
Nearly every member of Congress, Senate and House, maintain a home in the DC area.
This is silly.
Politicians and diapers need to be changed often, and for the same reason.
Wolf won’t get 30% of the vote.
Wolf is a JOKE in Kansas. He has virtually no support.
Tiller violated that law, and it got him charged in criminal court. (unfortunately Tiller won, but he shouldn't have).
The silly “no compromise” crowd fought that legislation before it was signed into law.
I know Kansas.
I know Pat Roberts.
Roberts should win and Roberts will win, easily.
Don't waste time and money on the gadfly phony Milton Wolf!
I am rather confident that Roberts spends more time in Kansas than either of your two Senators.
I see Pat Roberts IN KANSAS on a fairly regular basis.
Dude. I do know what I'm talking about. I'm a radiologist. You don't have a clue about this subject.
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