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How Pat Roberts and the GOP Lost Kansas
breitbart.com ^
| 8/6/14
| Dan Riehl
Posted on 08/07/2014 6:01:17 AM PDT by cotton1706
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To: cotton1706
AMEN.... NOT A PENNY FROM ME ‘TIL THE GOPe DRINKS THE TEA!
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posted on
08/07/2014 6:07:24 AM PDT
by
theoldmarine
(Saved by grace through Faith)
To: theoldmarine
The GOPe will never drink the tea. They would rather the Rats win who they are more ideologically aligned with.
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posted on
08/07/2014 6:11:32 AM PDT
by
Truth29
To: cotton1706
Good and on-point analysis.
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posted on
08/07/2014 6:12:47 AM PDT
by
SharpRightTurn
(White, black, and red all over--America's affirmative action, metrosexual president.)
To: cotton1706
Roberts should be in church thanking the Almighty that Kansas doesn’t have a runoff system for primaries. If they had, he’d be gone in the runoff.
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posted on
08/07/2014 6:18:13 AM PDT
by
Paine in the Neck
(Socialism consumes EVERYTHING)
To: cotton1706
If the base is this split then what doea that mean for the more moderate wing who likely sat the primary out? And come November it’s a three person race with Roberts the Republican, Taylor the Democrat, and Orman running as an independent. Orman’s center-right and would likely caucus with the GOP if elected. That might make him palatable enough for to get him elected.
To: cotton1706
First chance I get, I'm going to get my "party affiliation" changed (here in KS), as when I moved here, I declared myself "Libertarian." I had forgotten about this, and since KS has a closed primary, I wasn't able to vote for Milton Wolf.
Damn...
Mark
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posted on
08/07/2014 6:27:34 AM PDT
by
MarkL
(Do I really look like a guy with a plan?)
To: Truth29
“The GOPe will never drink the tea....”
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True, at least until the Tea Party base takes over and becomes the GOPe. The CURRENT GOPe would rather furtively sneak gulps of the DemocRATS’ kool aid.
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posted on
08/07/2014 6:31:52 AM PDT
by
House Atreides
(ANOTHER CONSERVATIVE REPUBLICAN FOR CHILDERS 2014 .... Don't reward bad GOPe behavior.)
To: cotton1706
Wow.
I didn't see the results until now.
48% for Roberts.
The GOPe strategy will fail in the general election.
Wait and see.
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posted on
08/07/2014 6:33:22 AM PDT
by
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posted on
08/07/2014 6:39:40 AM PDT
by
DJ MacWoW
(The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
To: cotton1706
The GOPe deserves to lose, and I’ll help.
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posted on
08/07/2014 6:49:30 AM PDT
by
Uncle Miltie
(The GOP-e scum enlisted Democrats to steal the Republican primary. The GOP-e can go to Hell.)
To: cotton1706
GOP strategy is to run out the clock. Enough discouraging losses and they figure tea party opposition will disappear and everyone will comeback.
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posted on
08/07/2014 6:56:02 AM PDT
by
bigbob
(The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
To: cotton1706
...the Republican Party continues to be a party at odds with its base. Furthermore, if they continue to try and ignore that reality, anything and everything they think they are winning now will be wiped away with a disastrous defeat in 2016.
Hey, 2014 isn't over yet. Let's wait and see if they really do win control of the Senate on November 4, 2014.
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posted on
08/07/2014 7:25:03 AM PDT
by
Din Maker
(I've always been crazy, but, that's the only thing that has kept me from going insane.)
To: cotton1706
what it did was throw just enough money at Kansas to enable an aging, out of touch politician to cling to power for just a few more years.
Not so. He'll serve for a year or so and then resign and turn that seat over to one of Haley Barbour's nephews.
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posted on
08/07/2014 7:27:03 AM PDT
by
Din Maker
(I've always been crazy, but, that's the only thing that has kept me from going insane.)
To: House Atreides
I like your tagline but should you maybe slip “MS” in before the word “Republican”? Just sayin’
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posted on
08/07/2014 7:30:00 AM PDT
by
Din Maker
(I've always been crazy, but, that's the only thing that has kept me from going insane.)
To: FreeReign
The GOPe strategy will fail in the general election.
Wait and see.
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That’s very likely in MS, but not KS. I don’t think KS has had a Democrat senator in over 60 years.
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posted on
08/07/2014 7:31:45 AM PDT
by
Din Maker
(I've always been crazy, but, that's the only thing that has kept me from going insane.)
To: cotton1706
Hate to say it, but even if the base stayed home in November and the GOP’s hopes of taking the Senate evapourated, the GOPe *still* wouldn’t get it.
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posted on
08/07/2014 7:47:35 AM PDT
by
Yashcheritsiy
(It's time to Repeal and Replace the Republican Party)
To: cotton1706
a pair of minor candidates combined for the remaining 11 percent of the vote.What's the story on these two? How were they funded?
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posted on
08/07/2014 8:27:51 AM PDT
by
Kenny Bunk
(Program. Plan. Leader. Winner.)
To: cotton1706; BillyBoy; fieldmarshaldj; ncfool
This is an interesting article and captures quite well the fundamental issue that faces conservatives. Like it or not, in a two party system, the Republican Party is the only option. But the arrogance and out of touch attitude that we saw from Pat Roberts is mirrored by many of his supporters, including ones on this forum. They insist that we sit in the corner and shut up and accept what’s good for us.
Throwing Roberts suddenly repaired voting record does not obviate the fact that he has ignored much of Kansas in favor of the well lobbied factions, and does not change the fact that by not living here, he has truly lost touch. He is a quintessential Washington insider and he does not understand that we are very tired of that sort of politics.
All of those who are gloating over his great “victory” will continue to ignore the fundamental problems that the conservative base has been shouting from the mountaintops, such as they are out here in the heartland.
To: cotton1706
Haven’t seen squat-ola on the boob tube from the GOPe candidate, Gillespie, running against Warner for the senate...seems a total loss right now.
Can’t help but wonder if this wasn’t a complete inside job, having a whuss run...
We need closed primaries in VA, not convention selection.
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