[theoldmarine]

AMEN.... NOT A PENNY FROM ME ‘TIL THE GOPe DRINKS THE TEA!

[SharpRightTurn]

Good and on-point analysis.

[Paine in the Neck]

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.

[DoodleDawg]

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.

[MarkL]

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

[FreeReign]

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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[Uncle Miltie]

The GOPe deserves to lose, and I’ll help.

[bigbob]

GOP strategy is to run out the clock. Enough discouraging losses and they figure tea party opposition will disappear and everyone will comeback.

[Din Maker]

...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.

[Din Maker]

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.

[Yashcheritsiy]

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.

[Kenny Bunk]

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?

[centurion316]

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.

[matginzac]

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.

[Political Junkie Too]

...a pair of minor candidates combined for the remaining 11 percent of the vote.

That's the way it's going to be from now on.

Spoilers will be added to ensure that the opposition to the incumbent splits its vote.

One can only assume that without the pair of minor candidates, that 11% would have gone against Roberts and to Wolf.

-PJ

[jmaroneps37]

I agree with this assessment but the results will be a GOPe pick up of the Senate in November because much of the 40% of Americans who call themselves conservatives but have yet to ever vote (surprisingly there are a lot of them when you start to check)will show up and vote for the Republican thinking he/she is the conservative. This happened in 2010 when new people came into the arena and it will happen again this year. I do believe these folks will be up to speed by 2016 and THAT will bring another GOPe loss if they don't smarten up and give us a conservative to vote for. Right now there are none except Scott Walker.

[Fledermaus]

I’m worried this is going to happend today in TN with Lamar. There were 4 other candidates on the ballot. I’m going to be sick if Lamar wins but with less than 50%.

I truly hate the man. I also voted for one of the many candidates in the governor primary against our current GOPe GOV. Haslam. He’s a tool.

I also voted against Marsha Blackburn. She jumps on the Boehner bandwagon too much for me these days. But she’ll easily win.

The rest of my ballot were unapposed R committee people and school districts. There were 3 Supreme Court and many appellate court peole up on a Replace/Retain choice. I follow the “when in doubt, vote them out” idea and voted to Replace all of them.