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Sarah Palin urges conservatives to rally around Pat Roberts
Los Angeles Times ^ | September 25, 2014 | By MICHAEL A. MEMOLI

Posted on 09/25/2014 11:33:20 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

When Pat Roberts faced a conservative primary challenge this summer, he did what most Republican senators have learned to do: turn hard right. Now, facing an unexpectedly strong independent challenge, Roberts is doubling down.

On Thursday, the three-term Kansas senator turned to tea party darling Sarah Palin to rally voters behind his flagging campaign. The former Alaska governor praised Roberts for standing with Sen. Ted Cruz a year ago during his marathon floor speech against President Obama's healthcare law, which preceded a strategy that resulted in a government shutdown.

"He [was] one of the few senators fulfilling campaign promises, doing what the American people asked him to do, standing there on the floor with Sen. Ted Cruz to do what they could to get rid of Obamacare," Palin said.

(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Kansas
KEYWORDS: election2014; kansas; palin; roberts; sarah
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To: laplata

Not only cant you provide anything to substantiate your wisdom, you can’t seem to work a mouse properly.

Hover the pointer over the hyperlink (that’s the clickable collection of letters), then press gently on the left mouse button.

Link works fine here.


121 posted on 09/25/2014 8:06:44 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart (How's that 'lesser evil' workin' out for ya?)
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To: CatherineofAragon
why don't you carefully evaluate all of the factors, weigh them in the balance of prudence and render a sound judgement yourself instead of letting someone else decide for you?

Simple.I trust Governor Sarah Palin and she has access to more resources than I, thus has knowledge that others don't. Add to that, Free Republic is Palin Country. Until and unless the boss revokes that, Sarah Palin remains #1!

122 posted on 09/25/2014 8:24:52 PM PDT by re_nortex (DP - that's what I like about Texas)
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To: Norm Lenhart

Aw shucks, it still don’t work. That stompin’ from the Rodeo musta shook it up.

I’ll have ta look fer it in a couple a months.


123 posted on 09/25/2014 8:59:03 PM PDT by laplata (Liberals don't get it .... their minds are diseased.)
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To: laplata

Wow, the FR Harry Reid Fan Club sure is out en force tonight!

The usual suspects who WON’T be seen on the Nov 4 Election LIVE return threads because 1) Their paychecks stopped and/or 2) They never wanted to put a halt to the runaway, evil Liberal Agenda that has damned near killed us.

So we won’t have to read their psychotic rantings for TOO much longer. And we’ll be too busy popping champagne corks to notice if they DO troll around with their anger of our Victory!

Go Roberts! Go Sarah! Go Judicial Watch! Go Cruz! Go Gowdy!


124 posted on 09/25/2014 9:22:46 PM PDT by txhurl (2014: Stunned Voters do Stunning Things!)
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To: re_nortex; CatherineofAragon

I think you two got your wires crossed over a missing sarc tag somewhere. I know both of you and you are on the same page.


125 posted on 09/25/2014 9:27:13 PM PDT by txhurl (2014: Stunned Voters do Stunning Things!)
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To: txhurl

You’re right on all counts.

It really is a waste of time to even carry on a conversation with the club. If one would agree with a point they made, they’d come back in a negative way. When people agree to disagree and have good intentions at heart it’s one thing and there is an understanding. But getting nasty and out of line is not a trait of conservatives.


126 posted on 09/25/2014 9:37:31 PM PDT by laplata (Liberals don't get it .... their minds are diseased.)
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To: laplata

When you get too close with the truth, they start calling you scatalogical names. How they think FR can move KS elections is a mystery, so I can only surmise a paycheck is the reason for the confrontational and insulting typing they do.


127 posted on 09/25/2014 9:54:12 PM PDT by txhurl (2014: Stunned Voters do Stunning Things!)
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To: txhurl

Yep, they must be under a lot of pressure and get frustrated. They’re fanatics.

I’d love to see Sarah in KS and shake some hands.

One of my brothers went to a Town Hall meeting tonight. His Republican US House Rep. is pretty good but the people in attendance let him know in no uncertain terms that he needed to toe the conservative line. My brother said he is becoming noticeably more conservative. They continually hold his feet to the fire.


128 posted on 09/25/2014 10:08:03 PM PDT by laplata (Liberals don't get it .... their minds are diseased.)
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To: laplata

Sarah needs to go back. It hurts when you, as a TEA reformist (what I call myself) gets beat back by the GOPe. Happened here in Texas: Cornyn got 59%, no runoff. All of us who supported Stovall and the other US rep Steve Stockman got beat back. It was what it was, there was no Sarah or Ted to back the challengers, it was pragmatism being played.

Both Sarah and Ted could have backed either early and Cornyn WOULD have gone to runoff, but that wasn’t in the cards.

We got over it, and will not enjoy pulling for Cornyn but the Primaries Are Over and We Need To Recapture The Senate.

Our feelings were hurt first (March) so it’s a relatively dulled pain but in Kansas TEA is still stinging, and rightfully so. Sarah is coming in as a salve to say: Shake it Off and let’s take back the Senate.

I know Mississippi conservatives are in limbo, I’m eagerly awaiting the MS Supreme Court to right the wrongs Team Barbour tried to demolish McDaniel with.

You see Ken Cuccinelli, VA, who got railroaded by the RATS running a ‘libertarian’, now calling for GOPe heads *today* via his new position at DeMint’s Senate Conservative Fund (sp).

We sent Cantor out on a rail in VA. Even he didn’t see this coming, and the VA Cuccinelli voters were enraged enough to upset the GOPe in this SPECTACULAR fashion, ushering in Dave Brat.

All of this points to the GOPe losing massive power once we regain the Senate. Cruz is waiting patiently for all the shenanigans to end in order to take up the CRUZade against the Uniparty.

Things are looking better than the FR Harry Reid Fan Club would have you believe. That’s why the keep shooting arrows at us.. to get those last paychecks...


129 posted on 09/25/2014 10:27:26 PM PDT by txhurl (2014: Stunned Voters do Stunning Things!)
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To: txhurl

All of this points to the GOPe losing massive power once we regain the Senate. Cruz is waiting patiently for all the shenanigans to end in order to take up the CRUZade against the Uniparty.


BINGO! That’s it.

The GOPe is very, very nervous and that is a good thing. People are seeing them for what they are and they are hearing the message whether they like it or not.


130 posted on 09/25/2014 10:50:15 PM PDT by laplata (Liberals don't get it .... their minds are diseased.)
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To: laplata

When’s the last time you saw Rience Priebus commenting on this years’ races? Uh like never. The CHAIRMAN of the RNC. AWOL.

His little Girl Scout Cookie thugs shook down the Chamber of Commerce and vice-versa, and lost their Cantor and are getting return envelopes from their fundraising begging filled with Conservative’s cat litter box contents.

All is going to plan..... MWUAHAHAHAHAHAH


131 posted on 09/25/2014 11:11:26 PM PDT by txhurl (2014: Stunned Voters do Stunning Things!)
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To: txhurl

Great point about Priebus. The guy is in hiding.

Yes, the American Chamber of Commerce have turned into a disgusting bunch.

LOL on your litter box comment. It’s true.

I haven’t received anything from the RNC in the mail in years. They got my message.

Election day is coming up fast. As you say, the club will go into hibernation the next day.


132 posted on 09/25/2014 11:28:17 PM PDT by laplata (Liberals don't get it .... their minds are diseased.)
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To: Resettozero
>> I'm scratching my head over this Roberts endorsement...just a little perplexed. <<

Well let's see. The election coming up is a general election. There are two choices.

Candidate A (Roberts) is 100% pro-life, pro-traditional marriage, pro-gun, anti-Obamacare, anti-illegal, has a 90% overall conservative record, ranked as the third most conservative member of the entire U.S. Senate, and was one of only handful of Senators (around a half dozen or so) who have ALWAYS stood with Ted Cruz, including during his filibuster when most of the Senate GOP caucus caved.

Candidate B (Orman) is pro-abortion, pro-gay marriage, pro-illegal, supports "reasonable" gun control, won't commit to repealing Obamacare, opposes the SCOTUS Hobby Lobby decision because it "gave corporations the same rights as people", has donated thousands of dollars to Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, ran as a Democrat in 2008, and polling analyst Nate Silver estimates a 75% chance that Orman will caucus with the Democrats and put Harry Reid in charge of the Senate's agenda.

Sarah Palin endorsed Candidate A.

Seems pretty obvious to the rest of us why she did so.

133 posted on 09/26/2014 12:37:18 AM PDT by BillyBoy (Thanks to RINOs, Illinois has definitely become a "red state" -- we are run by Communists!)
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To: laplata

As opposed to talking in circles, refusing to back up your assertions of ‘flawed’ logic and inventing excuses for voting for lib/Rinos?

Tell me what good it does to ignore GOP mailers and then elect their candidates. Tell me what good it does to bemoan the COC and then back their candidates. Please. Do tell.


134 posted on 09/26/2014 2:05:02 AM PDT by Norm Lenhart (How's that 'lesser evil' workin' out for ya?)
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To: BillyBoy
Seems pretty obvious to the rest of us why she did so.

The rest of us?

All my comments on this thread had to do with...why the Palin endorsement and why now. I'm still curious.

You missed or ignored my post where I said I had learned somethings Thursday about Roberts and would probably now vote for him...if I were in Kansas instead of SC.

Pays to read a thread through before jumping in late.
135 posted on 09/26/2014 6:18:50 AM PDT by Resettozero
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To: txhurl
Nice post and instructional...until this:

...the FR Harry Reid Fan Club...

No such group exists and I think you know it. Just interlopers one and two at a time.

When you write "Sarah needs to go back", do you mean to Alaska or return to Kansas before the GE this November?
136 posted on 09/26/2014 6:25:28 AM PDT by Resettozero
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To: Norm Lenhart
Every year, same crap. Every year, more leftism enters the Right.

The evidence is all on your side. But we'll know for certain in the coming two years plus a few months, Lord willing.
137 posted on 09/26/2014 6:32:24 AM PDT by Resettozero
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To: re_nortex
"Simple.I trust Governor Sarah Palin and she has access to more resources than I, thus has knowledge that others don't. Add to that, Free Republic is Palin Country. Until and unless the boss revokes that, Sarah Palin remains #1!"

I had a feeling you'd respond with hyped-up emotionalism.

What is the point of telling me that FR is Palin Country? I know that. I like her fine. However, I don't think you should lose sight of the fact that she's a human being.

At this point, Ted Cruz is my personal choice when it comes to politicians/possible future candidates. But as much as I like him, I'm not going to stop thinking and allow him to make my decisions for me.

138 posted on 09/26/2014 7:53:24 AM PDT by CatherineofAragon ((Support Christian white males---the architects of the jewel known as Western Civilization.))
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To: txhurl; re_nortex
"I think you two got your wires crossed over a missing sarc tag somewhere. I know both of you and you are on the same page."

Morning, txhurl. :)

I think re_nortex and I ARE largely on the same page...but with some slight differences, maybe.

Which is nothing to get upset about...heck, who among us is 100% in line with even our spouses all of the time?

139 posted on 09/26/2014 8:01:08 AM PDT by CatherineofAragon ((Support Christian white males---the architects of the jewel known as Western Civilization.))
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To: Resettozero
>> why the Palin endorsement and why now. I'm still curious. <<

Again, because its a GENERAL election now and a liberal Obama/Hillary supporter has a chance of winning that election and electing Harry Reid majority leader.

Palin DOESN'T want that to happen, so she endorsed the conservative incumbent who is a tight re-election race.

Why is this so difficult for you to understand?

140 posted on 09/26/2014 8:03:06 AM PDT by BillyBoy (Thanks to RINOs, Illinois has definitely become a "red state" -- we are run by Communists!)
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