Posted on 09/23/2014 9:10:56 AM PDT by centurion316
Control of the Senate is potentially at stake in Kansas, and the GOP is beginning to double down.
With a two-man race now looking all but certain, national Republicans are planning a scorched-earth offensive to frame Sen. Pat Roberts’s (R-Kan.) independent opponent, Greg Orman, as a shady businessman.
Their first volley this weekend: reports that Orman represented Rajat Gupta — the former Goldman Sachs board member who incurred criminal and civil fines of more than $18 million and was jailed earlier this year for securities fraud — on a two-person board of a Cayman Islands private equity partnership.
Kansas Republicans say to expect more information on his business dealings to come out in the coming weeks — likely as a systematic drip-drip of information, to keep the issue alive throughout the race. An Orman aide dismissed any potential damage, saying “the fundamentals of the race are still there, and that is, people are tired of the Washington dysfunction, and they’re tired of Pat Roberts.”
The GOP will also begin propping up the vulnerable incumbent senator with support from revered national Republican figures to help him keep the seat.
Former Sen. Bob Dole (R-Kan.) and Arizona Sen. John McCain (R) are both stumping for Roberts in the state this week, while former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R) is heading there for campaign event next week. Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) are both scheduled for appearances in October.
The need to boost Roberts’s image is imperative with six weeks to go until Election Day. Democrats pushed to get their struggling nominee, Chad Taylor, out of the race in the expectation that Orman would caucus with them.
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So we should vote for another Dem Obamabot masquerading as an Independent? No thanks.
Idiots....I’m getting so sick of this. OUr candidates aren’t perfect, but I’m tired of us beating up on ourselves. Who am I to say who should vote for whom in Kansas? I want us to win back the Senate. I want it now. I want to start to unravel and return the past 6 years to something normal. Everyday... every friggin day has been a nightmare. And just when you think it can’t get worse, it does.
So Orman’s not the conservative deal? Since the GOP was actually willing to fight him, I assumed he was.
The Gopes have no position beyond being able to implement the Democrat policies more efficiently. They can’t run on that so the only argument they have is the venality of their opponents.
Nail. Head.
Were I a Kansan that would be sufficient to keep me homo\e on election day.
Kansas is one of the hotspots for liberal Republicans and always has been. They were the people who promoted the abortion industry and elected Sebelius twice. Governor Brownback drove them out of political power, but they have declined to join the Democrat Party as it has ceased to be a factor in Kansas.
Orman is running a scam. He is a Democrat, always has been a Democrat, will forever be a Democrat. But he has joined forces with the exiled liberal Republicans to masquerade as an Independent in hopes of unseating Senator Roberts. Kansas has plenty of conservative voters to overcome this attempt by Orman, but if they don’t vote for Roberts, the plan will work.
If the GOP-e wants to win this race, then all they have to do is pretend Orman is a Tea Party candidate.
And if Kansans do that, Orman will win.
I’m sure that Orman will do much better, he’s an Independent you know.
That's a hanging offense to the Democrat base
Stand by for massive voter fraud in Kansas (and Georgia) as the Dems try to “buy” an extension of Harry Reid’s “leadership” with false “votes”.
I wonder if this means they're finally, at least to some extent, realizing conservatives, without whom they can't win, are pissed.
Orman is a RAT crook, their candidate for governor is a leftist lawyer who got caught in a strip club raid, but you won’t read any of this in any KS papers, just op-ed columns from RAT poli-sci profs who are all RATS.
Luckily, you’re not a Kansan, so you won’t be helping the RAT if you stay home.
Its about time they did “Scorched Earth” against ANYONE that is a CONSERVATIVE; aka they actually got some guts and BEAT THE DEMOCRATS!!
Anyone that Isn’t a conservative that is..
That was the whole point of the GOP primary. Wolf was never going to win, but to the extent that it woke up Roberts and the rest of the Kansas GOP, it was worth doing. The jury is still out on that one, but for now the only rational thing to do is to vote for Roberts
And who better to do that then Bob Dole and John McCain? </sarcasm>
Is the GOPe that God-awful stupid? Bring in a borderline nut-case like McCain and a former senator who hasn't lived in Kansas for decades to stump for a candidate who, oh yeah, has been accused of not living in the state for decades. They are giving this race away.
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