Posted on 10/06/2014 6:46:26 AM PDT by GIdget2004
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) will campaign for Sen. Pat Roberts (R-Kan.) later this week, Roberts's campaign announced Monday. The tea party star becomes the latest well-known Republican to join the effort to rescue Roberts, who polls show is trailing independent candidate Greg Orman.
The Texas senator will help launch a Roberts campaign bus tour on Thursday. Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) will also join the effort.
"To stop the liberal Harry Reid-Barack Obama agenda, we must win the Senate Majority – and we can’t do that without Pat Roberts back in the Senate," Cruz said in a statement.
An NBC News/Marist poll released Sunday showed Roberts trailing Orman by 10 points. Orman has not said which party he would caucus with if the majority comes down to him.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
When exactly did that happen?
I was in strategy session for a local candidate in late July. We were hoping for a low-turnout election and everyone was pleased that the primary season had been quite quiet. In particular, many were wondering if the Roberts and Huelskamp campaigns were overconfident because they had done so little. We got the low turnout we wanted so our unknown but more conservative candidate could overcome the name recognition of the well-known, incumbent moderate Republican. We got our people to the polls, the overconfident incumbent didn't.
I looked up Mike’s bio and he is impressive. Looks like you’ll all keep him around.
Infiltrators. IMO
You are a total f________ moron and are beyond all medical help.
If you really believe that, leave the USA, there is no reason for you to live here.
Is insanity painful, or do you just feel peaceful, kinda like islam?
You make no sense at all.
I would absolutely love to replace all the GOPe. I am still outraged with what happened in Mississippi.
The GOPe certainly has to be removed from power. But Obama with so much control his last two years really scares me.
Fortunately for me, Jeff Sessions is on the ballot in Alabama. I would support Sessions for president or V.P. so it’s an easy decision for me.
"The NRSC sent six workers to the Kansas City area for the final 10 days, and they knocked on more than 10,000 doors in Johnson County alone, a party official said. A Washington phone bank set up by the NRSC also made more than 40,000 phone calls in the final three weeks."
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2014/08/kansas-senate-2014-results-pat-roberts-milton-wolf-109748.html#ixzz3FNn1OpSv
“Mr. Roberts is ranked as the fifth most conservative member of the Senate in the most recent breakdown from Heritage Action, the political arm of the Heritage Foundation.”
How can you be the 5th most Conservative? You either are or you are not. Anything under 100% and you are a liberal.
"The NRSC sent six workers to the Kansas City area for the final 10 days, and they knocked on more than 10,000 doors in Johnson County alone, a party official said. A Washington phone bank set up by the NRSC also made more than 40,000 phone calls in the final three weeks."
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2014/08/kansas-senate-2014-results-pat-roberts-milton-wolf-109748.html#ixzz3FNn1OpSv
What I hate is the National Republican Senatorial Committee, Karl Rove, the GOPe generally grinding their axe against conservatism (rather than liberalism) at every juncture. They’ve purposefully made enemies of conservatives and conservatism, and they are reaping what they’ve sown.
We’re close to being on the same page. The site of Rove, McCain, Lindsey, Boeher, Thad, Lamar, etc. make me want to puke.
I would have preferred someone over Roberts. Any senator that doesn’t realize it’s important to keep a home in their home state isn’t so bright.
My beef with Roberts isn’t his conservative principles, but his allies and the fact that he’s losing.
The GOPe had to give him a big bump just to get to a plurality, and now he’s losing. He’s Karl Rove’s albatross.
He might be a great guy and a strong conservative. But I’m so sick of having those liberal GOPe guys cramming their Big Government down conservatives’ throats, that I’m at war with them, just like they want it. They hate us more than they hate Democrats.
I didn’t feel this way until Thad. That was the last straw. Now their guy Roberts is losing. They need to eat as much cr*p as they’ve dished out to us. Jerks.
Why not? The last Amnesty was apparently passed with wide bi-partisan support:
Passed the Senate on September 19, 1985 (69–30)
Passed the House on October 9, 1986 (voice vote after incorporating H.R. 3810, passed 230–166)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_Reform_and_Control_Act_of_1986
And everyone knows the Bushes, Rove, NRSC, WSJ, and Chamber of Commerce are in favor.
So, it is not unreasonable to assume that amnesty could be passed by 100% of Democrats + the GOPe. They’d love it.
Did Roberts not stand with Cruz when he did his filibuster? I really have no problems with Roberts as he does vote fairly conservatively.
Attacks from the right often weaken a sure bet. I believe Roberts would have been a sure bet if not weakened by the right. Sort of like what Pat Buchanan did to George H.W. Bush that helped Clinton get elected. I’ve seen it happen other places too.
It just seems to me that the right would have higher priorities to target than someone like Roberts. Yeah, I know he runs with some dirtbags but that can be said for most anyone in politics.
That all said, I don’t live anywhere near Kansas (I did live there about 25 years ago) so I don’t know all the particulars. Either way, I just hope Obama doesn’t control the senate his last two years. He’s that dangerous.
do you understand how give and take works on message boards? Serious question.
Fair enough. Let Roberts win under his own power. If he’s as great as his supporters here say, why wouldn’t he win in a walk?
While I understand your argument, I’m not willing to leave the field open to incumbents on the strength of it. Incumbency is incredibly powerful. If they haven’t easily earned the goodwill and support of their party and general election voters, then there is something fundamentally wrong with how they represent their state.
So, no attack from the right should be sufficient to weaken a good conservative candidate (especially in Kansas) as far as it has Roberts. He seems to have fundamental problems. I’ll purely guess that part of it has to do with the distasteful intervention of the NRSC.
Yes. Do you?
Run the risk? Are you kidding, saying stuff like that guarantees the crazies here will call you every name in the book. I never knew I was a moderate, a liberal, a leftist, a sell out, without principle, GOP shill, traitor, a few choice curse words, etc.
One fun thing has been watching the silence, the presumed cognitive dissonance these people are having as Palin and now Cruz are trying to drag candidates like Roberts (who they think should lose for some vague "principle") over the finish line to get rid of Harry Reid.
Sometimes schadenfreude can be very enjoyable.....:-)
He seems to have fundamental problems.
I agree.
My hope is that, if republicans control the senate, a few in the party — like Sessions and Cruz — will keep them from doing some really stupid things. If Obama has control of the senate, that hope is diminished.
Passed the House on October 9, 1986
30 years ago, Reagan was snookered into amnesty for 3 million wet backs, with the promise that the border would be sealed, the house was controlled by by that "real republican", tipsy o'neill.
What the hell is your point?
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