Posted on 08/07/2014 6:01:17 AM PDT by cotton1706
If you want to truly understand politics, especially of the Right-leaning variety, you'll have to look beyond the dumbed-down, self-congratulatory so called journalism of Beltway establishment publications like Politico.
Here is their headline out of Kansas: How Pat Roberts beat Milton Wolf. But the real story has to be read between the lines.
Pat Roberts’ narrower-than-expected win over challenger Milton Wolf on Tuesday night — came with a big lift from party headquarters in Washington.
The Republican Party threw everything they had behind Roberts .... and what did they get for it? Less than 50% of their own base vote, that's what. The anti-Roberts vote was split, not "defeated."
Roberts defeated Wolf, 48 percent to 41 percent; a pair of minor candidates combined for the remaining 11 percent of the vote.
The D.C. GOP consultant class can back-slap all they want. They may even dance themselves silly right out of their expensive loafers. Unfortunately, all the results from Kansas last night proved is that 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.
At this point, given the problems with their base voters, they may not even capture their coveted Senate majority in the Fall. Only able to capture 48% of their own vote, the Republican establishment did not emerge energized and victorious out of Kansas last night - 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.
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I've been around here since before 2000....
Joined up in 2000....and never cared much about bragging about myself..........Which...it appears that's pretty much what goes on.
You want to know about me...Ask me.
Doesn’t require putting up one’s entire C.V. Just a few words, sentences, anything, really. But you’ve got your state flag up, and that alone is more than some of these folks have.
Many in the GOP party...are just sick and tired of the same old thing.
Roberts, Dole, McCain, Romney, Lindsey, Alexander, Cochran, Cornyn....We've seen it all before.
I'm tired...and worn. I'm sick of the same old thing.
I want my kids to see a better government...
Can you say Roberts did anything to achieve that?
Hey...I'm from OK...we thought Tom Coburn was going to be different...In reality he isn't/wasn't..........
I'm very tried...and very weary.
Nothing personal...
That's just me.............
Nope Dingy Harry was by far the best candidate right?
When a thief is elected by a wide margin and the SEIU is counting the votes, I tend to be a little suspicious of the result.
You quoted my first sentence. You seemed to ignore the rest. Go back and read it.
Put up weak loser candidates and don’t act shocked when they, y’know, lose.
That Reid is execrable is a known fact. He got the opponent he wanted, and as a result, he didn’t have to “fix” anything in the general.
BTW, I was here during the 2010 election cycle exposing the disastrous Sharron Angle and that she would blow the race. What were you doing ?
I count five seats that would be in Republican hands today but for incompetent candidates foisted on the party.
We have a lot of incompetent candidates.... McConnell, Cornyn, Graham, Cochran (incompetent plus incontinent)
I’m as fed up as anyone but this crap is really getting old. How could any sentient being think that a Senate under McConnell would be anywhere near as bad as the Senate under Reid has been?
Because McConnell hates conservatives with a white hot passion
I agree. Buck was way in over his head. Jane Norton wasn’t the greatest, but she’d have beaten the seatwarmer Dem Bennet. Hopefully the CO GOP smartens up and gets a decent opponent for him in 2016.
Alas, this seat would never have been lost in the first place in 2004 had Bob Schaffer instead of the incompetent Pete Coors been the nominee against Ken Salazar. Another Rovian choice foisted on us.
It’s true. And the current leadership demonstrates precisely why they lost the majority in 2006 and have learned absolutely nothing from it. McConnell needs to be dumped as leader (as does everyone in leadership in both Houses).
Time we quit fighting each other and start fighting the people who are not only trying to destroy the Republic but are actually succeeding.
We have a fantastic candidate in Cory Gardner, a true conservative and very electable, but this is going to be a really expensive and really ugly race.
No, he was already like that. That is why he got a primary challenger.
You act like challenging his Lord and Majesty in the a primary is a declaration of war. He was the one who said he would use his office and his power in the party to stop TEA party candidates and move to punish PACs who fund those TEA Party candidates.
He is still doing it too.
When Cantor lost his primary, the local GOP decided to give away their GOTV money. The RINO left plays for keeps and you act like we should support them anyway. They have been doing stuff like this for YEARS and YEARS.
McConnell and the like are the enemy of conservatives. They have been for a long time.
bump
To elaborate on both of your comments a bit... it would be nice if we could come together, but there is a fundamental disconnect between the establishment leaders and the party (Conservative) base.
To McConnell and Co., their interests are solely about preserving their own power and position. Conservative ideology, saving the Republic isn’t on their agenda (or at best is far down their list of priorities), while the latter remains the base’s goals. It’s virtually impossible to reconcile two completely different agendas. One is self-serving, the other noble and necessary.
McConnell/Cochran/McCain/Graham, et al, I don’t even consider to be in the same party as Ted Cruz or Mike Lee. They’ve become the Democrat opposition in tactics and in character. You’re never going to change them.
McConnell’s wife sits on board of group working to kill coal industry
didn’t she just make an ad accusing Grimes of that??
I think you are correct. It is hard to consider them to be the same party.
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