Posted on 09/20/2014 8:38:01 AM PDT by centurion316
The Senate race in Kansas may suddenly be the most crucial contest in the country. Republicans are scrambling to protect a longtime incumbent. Bob Dole is back on the campaign trail. The state’s Democrats have no candidate and are trying to say as little about that as possible. And a 45-year-old investor from suburban Kansas City may hold the key to control of the Senate in January.
At the beginning of the year, no one thought that Kansas — which has sent only Republicans to the Senate since 1938 — would be critical in determining the balance of the Senate. But a Kansas Supreme Court ruling on Thursday that allowed the Democratic nominee to withdraw his name from the ballot made that prospect real.
Democrats are celebrating the ruling. Their candidate may be off the ballot, but his departure benefits the investor, Greg Orman, who is running as an independent, and hurts the longtime Republican incumbent, Senator Pat Roberts, who had already been tripped up in his expected waltz to re-election.
A major factor in Mr. Roberts’s troubles has been the unexpected rise of Mr. Orman, who has been coy about his intentions if he should be elected, refusing to say if he would caucus with Democrats or Republicans. But his election has the potential of keeping the Senate out of Republican hands if the chamber is narrowly divided after the elections.
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The LIBs/DIMs really like to screw around with the election process. Unfortunatly, dimwit voters keep electing and reelecting these walking slime.
Pulling Dole, 91 out of the nursing home should really motivate the base
in Kansas.
If they fail to do so, they are admitting that Greg Orman, the so-called Independent candidate was really their chosen candidate after all!
Orman has donated much to Pres. Obama and many other liberals and MO Senator Claire McCaskill basically told Taylor to step down in favor of Orman (doing a Bob Torcelli, offer he couldn't refuse.)
I think that the $500K from the Koch Brothers for a media campaign in Kansas will be the more important action. Roberts has been invisible on television since the Primary. Orman’s ads and the media puff pieces have gone unchallenged.
If the GOP idiots blow this one they can blame the Establishment.
They SHOULD go with “A VOTE FOR ORMAN IS A VOTE FOR OBAMA”
But they won’t. They treat Obama like Obama treats Muslims.
If the GOP loses, the bulk of the blame will fall on Roberts himself who didn’t think that he should have to be bothered to mount a reelection campaign. When the New York Times does a better job of pointing out Orman’s weaknesses, you know that there is a problem.
refusing to say if he would caucus with Democrats or Republicans.
That is probably something voters would want to know before sending him to Washington. They should demand it.
I am pretty sure we all know he would side with the democrats but there are a lot of stupid people.
These people should know that if they vote for the “independent.” they are giving control of the senate to Obama. Everyone of them that does that can rot as far as I am concerned.
Conservatives should not vote for Roberts.
He is a fossil who keeps the RINO’s in power in Washington.
We need to defeat the RINO’s, or else we will just get more of them!
Democrats pin hopes on voter cheating.
This part of his strategy is vital to his election. If he either admits or is discovered to be the Democrat that he really is, many Republicans and Independents will not vote for him. This is why he is running this deceptive campaign and why he refuses to answer the question of where he will caucus. He is also avoiding questions on issues. His mantra is simply that Washington is broken and he is not from Washington.
No, he’s not from Washington, he’s from Minnesota and he knows nothing about Kansas outside of the Kansas City suburb of Johnson County where he has amassed a sizable fortune as an investor and venture capitalist which he then uses to support liberal causes. He’s a phony.
The people who cheat are going to have a hard time following instructions to vote for the Independent candidate. They have been conditions to only vote for those with a “D” by their name. Kansas has also enacted a voter ID law that works pretty well. No ID, no vote.
The people on this forum who make comments like this are advocating the demise of conservatism. Conservatives who help elect liberals, in this case Mr. Orman, are contributing to their own destruction and extinction. Do you really think that Mr. Orman gives a damn about you or your political philosophy? No, he just wants your vote, and if you can’t give him that, then he would also be happy if you just stay at home on Election Day. That helps him as well.
Of course, you are not alone in your views, but all of you have allowed your emotion and frustration with the GOP establishment to drive you to irrational acts and statements. I have yet to see any credible plan that turns your anger into political power for conservatives, in fact it does just the opposite.
Anyone in Kansas that believes he would caucus with the Republicans is a fool.
A vote for him is a vote in support of Obama. It will offer Obama the next two years to continue to destroy this nation.
We have a voter ID here in Virginia. They just found 10000 voters registered in MD and VA, Fairfax County. I am going to be at my poll the whole day taking picture of MD plated the next election.
Which will make it even funnier as Roberts makes his victory speech on election night.
Jonathon Martin.......the guy with the bulging eyes and lacking a brain!!! Roberts takes Orman with ease!!! Orman about to undergo a political blitz...he never dreamed of!!! Martin is stoned on drinking too much NY Times, Kool-Aid. I hear Martin is begging and imploring “Obama” to come out to Kansas, and campaign for Orman.....do it Barack, you, Muslim Brotherhood Adoree!!!
Unbounded optimism does not a successful campaign make. What you suggest may be the outcome, but if Roberts does not get out of Virginia and start campaigning and does not start spending some money countering the Orman baloney, there are going to be lots of disappointed people from the Roberts camp come Election Night.
You are gunning for the dems to hold on to chairmanships. That is not a conservative position.
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