I thought his conservative voting record was in the 50s.
Wrong!
Roberts is one of the top 10 most conservative members of the Senate.
Using Freedom Works, we find that his rating for 2014 is 89%, pretty good. But, his lifetime average is 79%, not quite hall of fame numbers. Let’s look at his years in the league since 2005:
05 - 79%
06 - 67%
07 - 50%
08 - 57%
09 - 77%
10 - 91%
11 - 65%
12 - 54%
13 - 91%
14 - 89%
That’s one of the reason that I wasn’t buying what he was selling. More important, from my standpoint is his record as an absentee Senator who doesn’t live here and believes that taking care of the Agri Business and Aviation industry lobby equals taking care of constituents. He’s a second generation professional politician and that sort need to be viewed with considerable suspicion.
Now that he’s squeaked by with a resounding vote of confidence from 48% of Republican voters, he will no doubt roll on to reelection without much trouble. The question is what can we expect from Roberts in his next term. I predict that Kansas will see him less and that his conservative voting record will dip into the 50% range.
It's also akin to believing in global warming because Hollywierd makes TV shows, movies, etc. claiming it as a "fact."
Whether or not one believes Pat Roberts should retire and let someone younger with lots of energy run for that office, doesn't necessarily follow that every person who desires that office is not only not qualified but also not a person of character such that voters would give him/her trust.
KS has had plenty of RINO and bad GOP elected guys/gals but Pat didn't fall into that category, at least not enough so that some of us believed Wolf was the person we trusted as a replacement.
We will get someone, just not someone who claims he is "a hero deserving of our vote!"